Yehudit,
I absolutely agree that the perfect is the enemy of the good. I also agree with getting half a loaf.
I liked Duncan Hunter with 96% agreement. Fred! looks pretty good indeed. Huckabee has some problems, but I think many of them are exzaggerated by elitist snobs. Romney is a basic Northeasterner type who is smart enough to realize he has to be the candidate of the whole party, and is willing to work at it. Maybe I could have voted for Guiliani if he made a whole bunch of ‘Read My Lips’ promises.
This is not the standpoint of a purist. So let us put that charge of purist to rest like the inaccuracy it is.
John McCain has delighted in poking a stick in the eye of conservatives for decades. He’s obstinate on all the wrong issues, and soft on most of the right. And he will probably lack the power to do anything good except to do what Hillary or probably Obama would do anyways.
Even still, I could vote for a man who despises me and mine. Really. Unfortunately, he’d have to agree to a list about twenty items long which would include things like putting in Edith Jones and other orginilist judges who would almost certainly overturn his prize legislation–McCain-Feingold Incumbency Protection Act as the unconstitutional infringement on free speech that it is.
Right now, he’s Rehoboam. His advisers are telling him…”The people complain about how hard they have it. You go out there and tell them ..my father whipped you with whips, but I will whip you with scorpions.”
He’s proud.
And he’s running into the most principled, and hardnosed element in American politics. Conservatives, like anyone, prefer power. But its power for a purpose. Without a purpose, power is pointless. RINO’s–not so much in any of that.
I suspect the ‘purist’ label could more accurately apply to the liberal RINOs.
And yes, I’m aping the RINOs. This is a game of chicken. I’d like to say that reason and discussion were the dominant factors here, but its not. This is about power.
Its not even about electability. Bush Sr. in his second go, Dole, 2006 congressional elections….
RINO’s lose.
Conservatism with a bold fearless touch, and a smile wins.
Its nice to be there. Not only is the right thing the right thing, its also the more successful thing on several levels.
You call us childish. I could say what I said earlier, and admit to being childish, and ask you, the adult what you’re going to do to fix things.
Or I could simply say that one of the key aspects of childishness is a short time horizon. Conservatives are looking at a longer time horizon than most of the RINO’s. If we can get the party reformed, then we can make enough repairs to the situation to overcome the damage the Dem did (and this is not the same as undoing the Dem damage. Reagan did not undo Carter, but Reagan did win the Cold War which is vastly better than the damage Carter did.).
And what if the RINO’s are truly so filled with snobbery that they won’t bend? Well, then its time to leave the Republican Party anyways. If Liberal purists refuse to compromise then fine.
The Conservatives by the grace of the Lawgiver gave them thirty years of victory. We are not obligated to give them one more. And it were well that the poison in their souls be allowed out for all the world to marvel at.
Those who are not so poisoned, who don’t see Conservatives as the problem, I would welcome. I’ve proven my willingness to compromise. But compromise is a two way street.
Yehudit, you would do well to look to the others on your side, and ask them….Why will you not bend?
