Oh, and Rambam, I just couldn’t resist also addressing the usual RINO/Liberal line you used. You said, “The hard right stayed home in 2008 because McCain was a RINO. Could he POSSIBLY have been worse than they guy we got? America is NOT the right wing nation you want it to be, it is at best center-right.” This is the standard canard sung by you RINOs and Independents. If McCain was such a “centrist” and such a “progressive Republican,” which is nothing more than a conservative Democrat, then why didn’t the independents simply flock to him? Why didn’t McCain win in a landslide, picking up all those “valuable” independents, RINOs, and blue dog Democrats? McCain should have been a moderate’s wet dream come true, as I’m sure he was to you. Yet he lost, and badly too. True, it wasn’t a landslide, but it was still a big enough of a margin for the liberal Democrats to claim that the victory was a “mandate” for the American people to go liberal. So how’s that “Hope And Change” working out for you now, Mr. “You need to be a centrist to get a win today” in politics?
Americans are yearning for a clear choice and the elections of 2010 proved that. People like you WANT Republicans to continue nominating losers like McCain so that the Democrats will keep on winning. The past election proved that if you actually STAND for something, you can win. So yes, politics IS a zero-sum game where if you don’t stick to your principles you will lose. Ronald Reagan proved that if you give people a clear choice, they will flock to you in droves. He had to drag the Republicans kicking and screaming into being conservatives again. If the Tea Parties can do that today, great. But it’s the RINO Republicans like you who have to give in to us, not the other way around. If Repbulicans remain the party of McCain, you will continue to lose elections.
So if you actually support the Tea Parties, which I sincerely doubt, you will actually stand for something and not go for the “centrism” which was a proven loser in 2008 with McCain. The only way you will get change in Washington today is by taking over the Republican party. If they will not come along with us, we’ll simply go someplace else, like a new Third Party.
