You can attempt to appeal to anyone you please with your most crucial issues of our time beliefs, but they will never sway me, and the ‘scare tactics’ concerning ‘helping’ a dim get elected does not and never will sway me when the Republican nominee could just as easily win the dimocrat nomination.
My issues revolve around fundamental rights that I worry about more than the WOT. Take away those rights and I have no reason to fight for this country any longer, and I’m a veteran who believes deeply in those rights and protecting this country.
As it is, I feel betrayed by the right just for having RINO Rudy in the party and on the primary ballot. It’s that principle thing again.
Reading between the lines, perhaps we can agree on this:
I believe the root cause of the problem has less to do with ideology than with entrenched power. We won’t solve the problems in DC unless and until we purge it of the professional pols, a self-selected subgroup that is mediocre, power-obsessed and corrupt or corruptible by definition, and replace them with citizen politicians, people of exceptional achievement, talent and character who will lend their expertise for a term or two and then return to their day jobs. (In the meantime, we must make sure defective, disloyal and dangerous demagogues like the clinton don’t capture the White House.)
As for our fundamental rights, of course we must preserve them. But we cannot always stay in the system to save the system, (a feat tantamount to Lady Liberty lifting herself up by her own bootstraps). If we don’t win the WOT, the disposition of our fundamental rights will be made for us. That is to say, the islamofascist terrorists will make sure we don’t have them.
P.S. I am not trying to ‘scare’ you. (You don’t strike me as someone who is easily frightened. ;) And besides, that is not my style. I try to appeal to reason.) I am simply trying to describe reality.