Fred Thompson, Ronald Reagan, and the Goldilocks Republicans
We see this every election cycle. “All you people should just surrender to my point of view”. I’m glad that Anchoress wasn’t around in 1776 to advise our Founding Fathers to ‘just get along and play nice, stop being so contentious and unreasonable’.
The goal is to elect a principled leader – not a mediator. Failing that, we should at least elect someone who understands the Constitution and takes their oaths of office seriously. The Constitution’s Article IV section IV is not a starting point for negotiation. There is no ‘unless there is a buck to made’ escape clause written into the Constitution.
I fully understand that spending taxpayer money to buy re-election and adulation is a lot more fun than respecting the Constitution and enforcing existing law, but too bad. Oaths still mean something to some of us.
