We can stend the next few years discussing how Mitt Romney did not meet the criteria. I did not like George Bush and certainly did not like McCain (loved Sarah Palin though weak on experience); but I voted for them. Your attitude is my way or not at all. Mitt won the primary. I did not like it but he won. No one else won. So the lelection is him, who we don’t like or Obama. Clear choice. Staying home doomed us all.
What you have shown is that the conservative wing of the Republican party cannot be trusted to support the party decisions. Why then would the Republicans do anything for conservatives.
The Democratic party consists of several diverse groups that have no central theme. Gays, Unions, monrities, trial lawyers, etc. They know that if they do not support the party even when it goes against there best interest in the short run, then they will be out in the long run. Where would the minorities be if they did not support the party on gay marriage and open immigration; both going against their core beliefs and best interests.
So yes I am casting aspersions on those conservative who did not vote. . . Temper tantrums do not work well for young children and in politics. It is going to be pretty hard to have a political party when everyone has to be placated or they will not participate.
The main idea in democracy is that everyone has a vote, a selection/decision made, and WE ALL ACCEPT IT.
so you’re suggesting that Constitutional Conservatives should have no voice in their government.
I don’t claim to represent the conservative wing of the republican party. But I will gladly acknowledge that the liberal Rockefeller wing of the republican party does not represent me.
Here is your error: You describe what the democrats do, and hold that up as worthy of emulation. There is no temper tantrum involved. If the party does not make an effort to represent my values, they don’t get my vote.
so tell me again, why I should vote for liberal, big-government republicans in the future?
The downfall of our republic has been that “everyone has a vote”, but not everyone has skin in the game.
I’m going to have another go at this, because I think your heart may be in the right place.
We probably *will* spend the next few years discussing how Mitt Romney did not meet the criteria. You named three Republican candidates that resulted from compromise with the leftists. I don’t blame you for not liking them, and I don’t suggest further compromise with the leftists as a solution to this problem. That, apparently is your side of the argument.
I personally cannot be trusted to support the decisions of people who would sell out my core values. So why would conservatives ever support the Republicans?
“Where would the minorities be if they did not support the party on gay marriage and open immigration”? They would be free. The groups you’ve described have formed a coalition on *one* commonality; the quest for power. That approach to life or politics does not work for Christian Conservatives who, contrary to the popular narrative, do not want to become the American Taliban; but who simply want to live their lives amid as much freedom as possible, and to avoid being host to innumerable government sponsored parasites.
Don’t worry, I didn’t skip voting. I just didn’t vote for Romney.
To your last sentence: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Thomas Sowell