General comment follows:
Well WTF did people expect?
The “Principles do not matter” and “Purists are the death of the party” crowd shouted down people committed to traditional conservatism and this is what happens.
Since principles do not matter, as many here were screamed at for months, you now have a party with all the checks off. They are free to agree show everyone the result of abandoning principle. How does it taste? How does the “principles don’t matter” crowd like living the result of that belief? How does the “purists are destroying the party” crowd justify the hypocrisy of bitching about a party that has become anything but purist?
And before anyone falls on the old say about all that being in the past and we have to come together now and other crap....no. You do not get a free pass. Because it is your collective fault we are in this mess to begin with and you can choke on it. The time to come together was before the barn door got kicked wide open. Well the horse is out. The whole herd is out. And you opened that door when you accepted and campaigned for ‘moderation’ in exchange for a ‘win’ you never got. But you got that moderation in spades. You got so much moderation the GOP is now indistinguishable from a hard left Democrat.
So before any talk about ‘coming together’ gets started, perhaps those of you now suddenly having a come to Jesus moment on the GOP should decide where your head and heart is really at. Because the rest of us are pretty fed up with the whole Charlie Brown/Lucy football schtick and don’t trust you any farther than we can throw you. And while you’re at it, repeat after me...
“Principles matter.”
If you can’t do that, even to yourselves, just finish what you started and register as a Democrat and make it official.
Well Norm I hope you feel better - but methinks you read only the headline, fell for it, and didn’t actually read the entire article. I don’t trust Boehner, and I’m no big fan of Richard Burr of NC, but what we find out in the article is a far different story than what we see in the header. This is still mostly a Democrat maneuver. In fact, what Burr said, who can be a squish sometimes, was very good.
BTTT!