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
My heart is in the right place as is yours and we probably agree on about 99.9% of the time on social issues. I also happen to like Jack Danials-7 but that is besides the point. My issue with your statements and others is that not voting is no way to win a fight. If someone is breaking into your house and you do not like the Sherrif you don’t abandon your home to the thieves. Well Thses thugs in office are thieves and we need a sherrif, any sherrif even one that we don’t like.
BTW my clan is from Colonsay