You draw the line in the primary. After that you get on the team or else you keep your mouth shut.
If a faux 'Republican' becomes the nominee, how is voting for him any better than voting for a Democrat?
I'm not talking about an 80% or even a 60% conservative nominee. I'm talking about a candidate whose record in office clearly demonstrates they're advancing the other side's agenda.
That is exactly the dilemma we faced in 2012 with Romney. You can pound your fists until your bones break, but that's why millions of conservatives stayed home.
Like it or not, at some point soon, this is going to have to be dealt with. On our side, the leadership is at war with the base of their party. Not so on the left. It's an ongoing structural problem that we've got to solve - and we ain't gonna do it by voting in more RINOs.
Randita: You draw the line in the primary. After that you get on the team or else you keep your mouth shut.
Just like I used to do -- year after year, decade after decade, doggedly voting for Republicans who, if they won, would govern pretty much the same as the Democrat.
So randita, maybe you erase the line after the primary and would vote for someone so rotten as to lie to Democrat black voters and play the race card to get them to illegally enable him to overcome the better primary opponent (that's a recipe for putting good men in office!), but more and more of us are recognizing that almost literally the game YOU are playing with the left is "Heads they win, tails we lose."
No wonder you keep your mouth shut.