Which party pray tell do you think I have been fighting in my state for the past 8 years on this very issue? You and others are missing the point myself and others are screaming aabout yet some can't seem to hear. Tell me if Don Sundquist was eligable for a third term and won the primary should I vote for him because he is a Republican? Well should I? Have you seen his track record? The DEMs love him. Good grief in 1998 they ran the party joke to make certain he stayed in office. Nothing like a nice Republican Socialist to do your dirty chores for you.
So what did Sundquiost the RINO do for the Tennessee GOP anyway? I'll tell you what he did and it's posted in many a thread in this forum. He split the party. He abandoned Conservatives. I'll tell you what had not a few DEMs had more conservative backbone than many of our state Republicans we would have a state income tax right now thanks to Don Sundquist-R.
You are not going to get results you want electing RINO's to office. Not now not ever it simply isd not going to happen that is truth. You just get problems like Sundquist which is two to fight against your party and the other.
Now follow this a moment further. I wish Sundquist had lost his very first election and a Dem got in office. Yes I said that and yes I mean it. But why?
Simply because Sundquist split the party in half giving leverage to the DEMs by GOP fools following his que simply out of a warped sense of party loyality to the jerk. Had he lost? The GOP would have been united to a common enenmy and been a lot more of a factor stopping the DEM agenda. It's sad how people can not see this for what it is. It is sometimes better to loose standing your ground than to win and the victory prize be given to your enemy.
What am I saying then? I would rather see the GOP loose fighting for a solid cause than to win fighting for the cause of the other side. A minority United is stronger than a majority divided. Especially when the numbers are as close as they are now. We don't need control of both houses first. We need a sense of cause first and right now the liberals cause is running first place in both parties mandates. If it takes a loss to bring the GOP back to 1994 thinking so be it. When it comes right down to it it's not the Committee seats that matter. What matters is what is passed or failed by vote in congress.
I can't buy into this direction being pushed. I think in the long run it's worse than the DEms winning a term. The GOP is out of control and is not intersted in what you, I, or any other conservative thinks. Electing more who think the same IN THE PARTY gets you what? You're voting yourself and your voice out of the GOP get it? I reckon some will wake up when they see a Liberal Kennedy on the GOP ticket. Then again some will see it as a form of victory as if they changed their views to suit ours.
It's quite obvious many in here do not share this idea or thought so with this post I will leave it at that for this thread.