[Roadrunner383]

No matter how conservative someone might be, there will be a person pop up and start ranting about RINOs and traitors. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

[wildcard_redneck]

“No matter how conservative someone might be, there will be a person pop up and start ranting about RINOs and traitors. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.”

Still a Bush/Romney/McCain/ Cheney fan aren’t you?

[vpintheak]

I agree. And your point is proven by a previous post to you.
I’m as conservative as they come , but because I think Trump has made mistakes and has made some recently(rename Denali, Panama Canal) some would call me RINO or whatever.
These are the same people/personality types that are on the left that we rightfully mock.

[GingisK]

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good

Needs to be repeated.

[Phlyer]

No matter how conservative someone might be, there will be a person pop up and start ranting about RINOs and traitors.

That's because the conventional left/right spectrum is inherently flawed. The true spectrum is between statists and anarchists: Those who want the state to 'do' something on whatever their pet rock issue is versus those who don't want the state to 'do' anything at all.

The challenge for real societies is to find the balance between the two. The US Constitution describes a wonderful balance, far superior to the system we live under.

So there are 'conservatives' who demand the state 'do something' about abortion, or who demand the state 'do something' about foreign aggressors who (ultimately, like Hitler) may threaten their view of their own nation, or those who demand the state 'do something' about voter fraud.

And there are leftists who demand the state 'do something' about transexual kids (whom they assume know what they are better than their own biology), or 'do something' about those nasty gun owners, etc.

My own view (if it's not obvious by now) is that the federal government should only 'do something' about those responsibilities explicitly established in the Constitution, but do those things very well.

So as much as I hate abortion, it's not a federal government job to 'do something' about that (see the 10th Amendment). By the standards of many on this forum, the fact I don't want the federal government to outlaw abortion immediately means I'n not a conservative.

And perhaps they are right.

[aquila48]

“No matter how conservative someone might be, there will be a person pop up and start ranting about RINOs and traitors. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.”

Exactly!

Many so called conservatives (eg, a lot of freepers) are parties of one - unless you agree with them on every last detail, you become RINO or worse.

Not the way to build a powerful movement. Strength comes in numbers. Reagan understood that, and so does Trump.

[JesusIsLord]

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

This post brings a couple of things to mind.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Lincoln

"For all that is secret will eventually be brought into the open, and everything that is concealed will be brought to light and made known to all." - Jesus

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No matter how conservative someone might be, there will be a person pop up and start ranting about RINOs and traitors.

"Controlled opposition" was one of their favorite smears of Alex Jones.

[grey_whiskers]

Don’t let the average be the enemy of the mediocre.

[Olog-hai]

God’s perfect. Is He the enemy of the good?

Jesus called on Christians to be “perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). Are Christians who achieve this state by overcoming evil thus the enemy of the good?