Like the father in Dr Zhivago when he returns to his country home in the dead of winter, all locked up and confiscated by the state, damn it I'm people too, and I'm venting, at the narcissism of it all. All of this posturing about folks not voting Republican, and leaving the party, is getting really old. It's garbage, it's disingenuous, and it's effect on getting anybody to change their mind about anything is one big fat zero, and that is exactly the weight which should be given to these ersatz threats.
There, that feels better. Oh yes, I am sick and tired of all these inane vanity threads! They are beginning to annoy me almost as much as Indian casinos - and that is a whole heck of a lot.
All of this posturing about folks not voting Republican, and leaving the party, is getting really old. It's garbage, it's disingenuous, and it's effect on getting anybody to change their mind about anything is one big fat zero, and that is exactly the weight which should be given to these ersatz threats.The threat is quite real, and people *will* stay home out of disgust.
I'd love to be able to run an experiment, but perhaps you can be shown that this is true when, in 1994, liberals, who found Clinton too moderate, stayed home in droves, while at the same time gun-owners showed up PISSED, giving Newt Gingrich his Republican Revolution.
I daresay the same scenario has a significant chance of repeating in 2006 unless the party gets -- and keeps -- some balls.