The statement that online activists should shut up unless they are also working at the county level is wrong. It looks like an attempt to shut down conservatives.
We can motivate the GOP by varying methods. Shouting at them, and refusing money, and refusing votes is one method. Its not the only method. Starting a third party, donations to opposing candidates, and getting in to committee chairs are other methods.
If you say, ‘hey, conservatives need to do more’ then no one has an objection. If you say, ‘do more, or shut up’, then I have an objection.
His remedy sounds an awful lot like ‘in ten years time you might get some of what you want if you support the RINOs now.’ Well, I say, in light of the RINOs obvious failures its time for the RINOs to support the True Cons.
M. Simon, thank you for proving what many Real Conservatives suspect. The RINOs hate us more than they hate the Democrats. And isn’t it confusing that social conservatism was more popular in California than Republicanism? Remember Prop 8?
I sit here and think, hey, maybe M. Simon might have a point about drugs, at least enough to do an experiment. And then M. Simon breaks the 11th Commandment into little bitty pieces. He still might have a point, but unless he’s going to support reason and right, why should we put ourselves out to support his pet project? We should just file it down around priority fifty behind getting a border fence between Canada and America. If we get to it, well and good. If not, well, maybe next time.
I half expect Mr. Riehl to come out with hatred for socons sometime in the next year. Socons are going to persistently, and with good humor dispute points made by Mr. Riehl. Eventually, he’s going to be real tempted to lose his cool as he keeps getting politely pistol smacked, and go Kathleen Parker.
It seems to be the thing. Fiscons and centrists, when the crunch gets hard, go squish, and change sides. If you want a real fiscon, elect a socon, and the more hard-nosed the better. Alan Keyes might be interesting.
