When I first joined Free Republic, I had a one month old baby. I spent most of the first eight months on the state message board making the some of the same arguments I’ve seen here from what I believed was a Conservative point of view.
We HAD to vote for mcsnipe to stay alive to fight another day. I fought that battle and actually believed it, until, after a few months of mcsnipe posturing, his humiliation of the radio host who used bam’s middle name, his absolute refusal to even try to mount a robust campaign, and finally his kiss on the cheek to bill clinton on his way to pass the tarp package, and I knew we had been set up for the ultimate betrayal.
I could never again, in good conscience, ask anyone I knew to vote for him. I could never again defend GW Bush for campaigning for Specter over Toomey because it was “best” for the party to keep a sure r.
I could not, in good conscience, defend party politics as usual at all. And I will never, ever do it again.
There were a lot of people on my state message board who were on my side then. Some of them wanted to take it off the state board and onto the forum. I had all the “right” arguments. I was an overnight hero. EXCEPT, I was DEAD WRONG!!!
There was a poster there who was saying then what I am saying now, what most of us on this thread are saying now. I fought him tooth and nail. I went back on the state board and apologized to him. He was right. I was wrong.
It can’t be politics as usual. There is too much at stake.
Those who refuse to learn the lessons of this past election, whether it’s party loyalty, or belief that anything is “better” than what we have now, are missing the forest for the trees. That attitude is why we are at this crossroads now. That attitude is what has brought us defeat after defeat, yet they persist.
I do not desire to see my almost two year old pay for these obvious mistakes in judgement by some who choose to go along to get along, taking cookie crumbs from the political table and calling it a win. She doesn’t deserve that. She will have the whole cookie,or I will breathe my last breath trying to make sure she does.