With genuine respect, truly -- how do you think we got to this point? I certainly helped get us here, I admit, with my votes in the past.
We can and should give money to candidates who uphold the princples, we should vote thoughtfully in the primaries, we should write letters to the editor, we should do what we can to promote those Republicans who are right. But when it comes down to the bottom line, no matter what we do, the real thing happens in the voting booth.
The vote is the only thing you or I have to actually play a part in steering the GOP course. That's it. There is no other mechanism but the vote. As long as liberalism wins, we will elect liberals. Liberalism is winning in the GOP because party voters like me are blackmailed into it. Newt is doing it. He means well, and he may be right, but the older I get, the more I doubt it.
Sure, McCain would be better in the short run. But the long term consequences for the GOP would have been this: Liberalism won again -- validation. GOP must continue to be moderate reach-out liberal with regard to expanded government in order to win.
I want that to lose. My vote now goes elsewhere because it is the only tool I have to change the course of the GOP, and a change in course is the only thing that's going to save this country.
Az Car, you and I both know Romney to be a fraud. If it had been Romney instead of McCain on Nov. 4, would you have voted for him? Knowing that THAT was the message, that this was the direction that was going to work for the GOP, and therefore for the future freedom and trust of the country under the Republican party banner?
I am very concerned at the twitters Fox is getting today from people supporting Romney... but then I believe Romney is as capable and uses the same methods as Obama to convince people up is down and down is up. He has his sites set on 2012, not a doubt in my mind... if he gets the nomination we won’t have a GOP president until at least 2016, which makes it all the more critical we build back the congress, senate and state governors.