The flip side is, of course, why the hell does it matter if you win elections if you're wrong?
“The flip side is, of course, why the hell does it matter if you win elections if you’re wrong?”
Because no one gets everything that they want in politics. The “wrong” you speak of is 70% right. If the other side wins, and you get 10% of what you want. Neither choice is ideal, but there is a clear choice. Ronald Reagan said that if you get 70% of what you want in politics, take it and run away. I would rather have had either McCain or Romney, as much as I dislike them and their policies, than Obama.
There is a persistent line of reasoning which argues that in order for things to get better, they first have to get much worse. Well, I can’t think of much worse then the situation we have right now. if the people in this country cannot coalesce around somebody who is not collectivist, then things will get worse yet. Allowing ANY Democrat to be President after Obama leaves will finish this country. Even the most RINO of Republicans will slow the descent to collectivism and give this country a little bit of breathing room to actually stop the slide, and to later reverse it...and remember that they will have a fairly conservative Congress pushing him to do the right thing.
All those who stayed home in 2012 and allowed Obama to win forgot George Patton’s admonition: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
By the time the GOP primaries are over, every single candidate will have said something that causes some group of Freepers to shout "RINO! Outcast! Unclean!"