I know what you're saying, and agree. I'm still getting flak here on FR about not voting Romney, and people getting offendid when I state the obvious: Romney and Obama are politically identical. (Ok, so there's one little bit of difference: Romney is a Fabian Socialist and Obama is more of a Radical/Revolutionary Socialist... but that's it.)
I got fed-up with the crap the Republicans do (and the GOPe apologists make) and made a satirical brochure:
The Tao of Republican Orthodoxy
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This is all really simple. Look at the people years out from the election conditioning us to go and vote for another lib. And when called on it, it’s one excuse after another. They never address the facts, pretend the points do not exist and bull on with their agenda.
And it is an agenda. Any conservative in truth would be out there rallying the troops to find and vote for conservatives. These guys totally ignore the words of the founders saying EXPLICITLY not to vote for things we know are wrong.
In FR’s early days, such people would not last long. In fact, supporting liberalism and liberals was frowned upon.
But today it seems we are so infiltrated that it’s allowed.
By virtue of your tagline, Sharky, I opine that the crashing fall of Christianity is the cause of all the increasing divisions, in both the intellectual warfare and in the tactical combat going on (among even the basically like minded) concerning all the endless compromising, as to when to compromise, or, to what large or minute degree to compromise.
NL and C.EW are consistently awesome posters, neither with whom I have found occasion to disagree, whether it be my good luck, or misfortune, it’s a jolt to read through a disagreement between them.
The “lesser of two evils” rule begins to become non-binding when its result repeatedly yields further demise in real terms, and/or in intellectual and political terms. Like banging one’s head into the proverbial brick wall. Eventually, after recognizing that we are pinned down into the wall under strafe of incoming demise and decline with no retreat, we contemplate doing something different.
The prez election will be close, but Hillary should win, particularly in a now solidly Marxist, socialist nation, where God and our traditions, morals, society and culture have been so marginalized. We have educated most of three generations for this moment, in direct
proportion to our own sloth and compromise.
We are now “fundamentally changed”. This alone should call for a radical departure from any more compromise and pithy talking politicians.
We LOSE, with or without the Republican Party, and it seems time has already run out on either changing or taking it back.
Third Party, in the mold of Tea can’t possibly be any more costly in terms of time and structuring and outcome than continually living on a wing and a prayer with the treacherous, monied, elite tyrants running the Republican Party.
Honestly, the radical Paul-approach is looking better and better, mostly because it is not popular, it wounds all sides of both parties and doesn’t seem to give a large damn, but aims relentlessly for an overhaul and course correction for government. A delicious prospect; to see some boats finally get rocked, with a course laid out to reverse and reduce the heavy handed oppression of the political and financial elite.
Just sayin’ there seems to me no viable runners out there so genetically steeped in the meaning of liberty and the Constitution (except those who use it for sound bites and flag waving) who have both the brains and ready organization of the Paul machine.
But a Republican I can’t be, not even one more time.