How about worrying about refinements once you survive.
***Now you’re back to the overblown fears, the cowardice. We see this every time there’s a CINO running for pres. I’m not voting for a destable librul just because you are afraid.
Once you've finally managed to define "conservative" downwards to the point where all it means -- literally, the ONLY thing it still means -- is "Not Obama": then you're no longer part of any coherent, principled or intellectually defensible political ideology.
All you're doing, at that point, is taking part in an imbecilic, nation-wide version of "Shirts Vs. Skins."
Which is absolutely fine. For children.
I've seen so deplorably many FReepers, on this thread, proudly fetishizing their fears; maniacally attempting, literally, to OUT-DO their fellows in some freakish, Dodo-esque attempt to come out (ultimately) as Craven Coward Numero Uno.
("I fear The Kenyan so impossibly much, I'd vote for C'Thulhu and all his assorted Elder Gods, instead! Booga-Booga-Booga!" "If you wouldn't gleefully chop your own grandchildren up into mincemeat -- and then fry up and messily gobble the remains -- in order to vote for Mitt Romney, then YOU DON'T FEAR OBAMA ENOUGH TO LOVE AMERICA AND *ARRGLE*BLARRGLE*AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -- !!!")
I've never seen sweaty, bug-eyed cowardice -- unalloyed and unabashed -- elevated, by a delusional few, into an actual exemplar of "patriotic reason" (or whatever), before this thread.
Would that I had gone quite a bit longer still, before being accorded such an opportunity... particularly on Free Republic.
Hey all that counted was going out in a blaze of glory. We died, but with the utmost dignity.
I wonder where most of the folks, who are talking this way now, ever were during the primaries. When Sarah Palin declined, the Herd of Cats couldn’t even agree on a single candidate to rob Mitt (who had made a big splash in 2008) of the dominance he was about to inherit by default. Wouldn’t anyone take Perry, Bachmann, Cain, West, Gingrich, Trump, or Santorum in a heartbeat? The trick was to agree on one instead of letting it turn into a fizzle in the sub ten percents.