re: “Actually, if I had it to do over again, I’d have stayed home and not voted for him like I did.”
I will give you an apology for misreading what you wrote. Apparently I cannot multitask as well as in my youth. I mistakenly read “not voted for him like I did” to mean you had not voted for him. I voted for him reluctantly.
A Whiny statist Republican? As someone who campaigned for Goldwater as a teenager and gave a speech at the Reagan Library after his death, I do not have to justify my long record of conservatism to you. But you do get the apology for my misreading.
Accepted. However, my main point was that it is personally offensive to a lot of conservatives to be fed the specious line about “a non-vote for a RINO is a vote for a Democrat.” Where is it written that a RINO automatically gets a Conservative’s vote.
Time is better spent on trying to convert Democrats over to Republicans than wasting time of condemning Conservatives for their intransigence of principles. It seems to me the Republican Party could stand for a little “principles” instead of exigency, the exigency of appeasement to mythical votes they think they can get - if only we......