I understand. The conservative Republicans who stand on principal are “peevish” and therefore “self righteous”, mostly because of their unwillingness to understand and accept the bigger picture, that politics is a game of compromise abbeted by the foibles of human nature such as greed, narcissism and simple vanity. Now I get it.
Lets be reasonable.
I have no allegience to the Republican party because they have no allegience to me. I tired of being played in the months before an election, which is the only time the Republicans (Most of them anyway) get a spine, or at least pretend to get one. The pretense is only long enough to get themselves elected then it is business as usual, dividing up the pork and dismissing the people who elected them as rubes and hicks that “just don’t get it”. I say screw them, and that includes the foremost non conservative conservative, John McCain.
I won’t go over his list of betrayals and perfidies to conservative principals again as that has been done as naseum, but I will not vote for John McCain no matter what the pundits who urge us to “be reasonable” say. You can whinge and whine and attempt to equivocate to your hearts content, I WILL NEVER vote for another non conservative conservative whether you try and package him as a “compassionate conservative”, “maverick” or some other intentionally deceptive label.
I am also totally disgusted with the RINOs who believe their job is to kow tow to the liberal press. They are desperate to remain in control just like any other con man, spewing their conservative platitudes all the while stabbing me in the back with “comprehensive immigration reform”, McCain-Feingold and other simillary noxious and utterly unacceptable types of legislation. I expect the libs to call me names and hyperventilate about their own innate wonderfulness, but to have representatives of my (previous) political party call me names like “nativist” and “racist” because I expect them to represent U.S. citizens and uphold the laws of this country first is a betrayal that will haunt them for the rest of their political lives, no matter how much the media attempts to ignore and manicure those things out of the public debate. I think it is most telling that during the immigration fiasco it was the “reasonable” Republicans that adopted the language and tactics of the Left. I will not forget.
The simple truth is, the Republicans have done this to themselves. They broke faith with the people who put them in power and they cycinically calculate that the distaste and fear of the other party (And Hillary in particular, for good reason) will keep getting them elected. Then it’s back to business as usual. As a group the Republicans have no core beliefs any more. The pundits, elected politicians and everyone in between who make their living from their association with the political process are all willing to compromise whatever they need to to accumulate and retain as much power as possible, because in Washington power equals money and sucess. I say good riddance. Time to start over from scratch if that’s what it will take.
Compromise is both sides giving up something to reach an agreement. Republicans in general do not compromise, they capitulate. There is a difference, and it is neither reasonable nor enlightened. I, for one, will not capitulate any more, no matter how you try and package it.
