[markomalley]

Well worth opening and reading the whole thing...

More quotable quotes:

Conservatives are married to their principles, the ideals and values that they believe make America worth defending, protecting and preserving…

Republicans have bought into the Party power principle and they are increasingly willing to toss their core conservative principles overboard in exchange for making certain that their party wins the election.

Again, this is something that GOP partisans REALLY need to read and heed...

[markomalley]

ping!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The Rudy PIMPS are trying to shut up all conservatives one year before the primaries because they want the voters to have only two choices, a democrat or a democrat with an R by ITS name.
Either way they will have a far left winger as POTUS.

They live by fake popularity polls and try to stop all talk about issues.

[NurdlyPeon]

Well worth opening and reading the whole thing...

Needed to be said again.

[cripplecreek]

In the last election the president, John McCain and the GOP leadership heavily endorsed Joe Schwarz. He was pro amnesty, pro choice, anti gun, and anti ANWR drilling. He lost to a conservative in the primary and the conservative won in the general election.

In this election it looks like the GOP wants to cut any conservative competition out of the pack before we get anywhere near a primary.

[Manic_Episode]

I am very weary of the party over principle FReepers running their mouths nonstop beating us over the head with the "it's this or Hillary" stick.

If both candidates end up being liberals then I don't really give a rats hat which one wins or loses because the end result will be pretty much the same either way, and I cannot and will not vote for a liberal regardless of the letter designation next to their name.

I could easily vote for someone I don't like or support...IF they are a conservative.

Baby murderers and gun grabbers can KMA.

[Verax]

Title Says it All...nice

[libstripper]

George W. Bush has spent like a drunken liberal for six years now, refused to respect American sovereignty and security at our borders and fought perhaps the most important war of this generation in a politically correct manner instead of with a single purpose of victory. Such things do not make a conservative, just a typical modern politician, a Republican at that.

That, along with his absolute refusal to prosecute DemonRats for real crimes while relentlessly pursuing honorable law enforcement agents and his own closest supporters for fake crimes, sums up the reasons for my present disgust with Bush.

[EternalVigilance]

BUMP

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Are conservatives running scared? No, but Republicans are! What's the difference?

Conservatism is a philosophy or a way of looking at the world. You can always look at the world as you wish. One has one's philosophy, no matter if nobody else shares it.

The Republicans are a political party. A party's an institution, and institutions can run into real trouble in the world. Parties that are unsuccessful for long periods run the risk of dying.

The deeper question is what are bedrock principles and what are the expedients and compromises that are a part of political life. Where do the things that one can compromise on end, and those one can't compromise on begin?