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To: agere_contra
I voted for both McCain and Romney and still got the sum of all fears. I've learned my lesson; I believe it's bigger than asking for the lesser of two evils. The longer we continue to wink at candidates that can't see that abortion and sodomy are evil, we have nothing to stand on; we have no moral foundation on which we stand. Other issues become merely about money, and always devolve into some argument about who is being greedy. Money is not all there is.

In other words, I'm not voting for anyone that can't even say that killing babies is wrong, or that sodomy is wrong. Those two things, at least, were wrong yesterday, are wrong today, and will be tomorrow. That is the foundation of Conservatism, that we recognize and conserve certain truths and wisdom that are transcendent of the current spirit of the age. Indeed, "self evident" and "endowed by their Creator" are essentially conservative.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

These evils are not sufferable, and I am ashamed I voted for people who will suffer them. In my opinion, the Republican party has no principles that are immutable. Instead of "how can we further align ourselves with what is good and true?" we get "how can we further align ourselves with evil, and still say it is good and true?" So, I believe that to the extent that we conform to the spirit of the age, namely depravity, we will continue in decline and fecklessness.

215 posted on 10/16/2014 7:48:36 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ecomcon

You are wrong this time. The Livertarian party does not offer a real change. By seeking to weaken the Republican Party, you would simply empower the Democrats. Rand Paul is the new John McCain, the media darling who puts his finger in the wind before taking a poison on anything.

Right now, Rand Paul is like a windmill, he is spinning so fast.


216 posted on 10/16/2014 7:53:45 AM PDT by Eva
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