Will this time be the time that folks sit out election day choosing principle over expediency?”
And allow Hillary to waltz in and finish off the country before your very eyes? Then you can take your principle and comfort yourself with it.
I like Trump. He fought back. It is time we had someone who will fight.
Trump’s debate was largely because of the audience being loaded with Bush and Rubio donors, and the faux-moderators. He had to fight back and he did. Wasn’t pretty, but needed.
“Then you can take your principle and comfort yourself with it.”
There it it! If that is one’s attitude as we sit here and debate our candidates, we run the risk of alienating those WE NEED to win the general. Sure, it feels good to drive home the point, walk away from the argument feeling vindicated, but if you haven’t persuaded (with either your valid arguments or, just as importantly, your means of persuasion), then come election day, you may just find your candidate lacking sufficient support.
On THAT day, how will it feel to know that those who chose principles over expediency stayed home (having chosen to win a battle here or there, but costing your team the war?
My point is simply to wonder whether people are going to be willing to hold their nose to vote anymore. You seem to think they will.