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To: odawg

Just maybe we should select pols by their fidelity to our principles and positions—and not to a particular political personality.


12 posted on 06/22/2024 9:32:43 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

“Just maybe we should select pols by their fidelity to our principles and positions—and not to a particular political personality.”

Wow! That sounds so grandiose, and no one has ever comtemplated it.

Are you saying that politicians have fidelity to principles and positions?

Are you saying that voters don’t have to have fidelity to principles and positions?

MAGA voters have fidelity to Trump because he has proven to have fidelity to MAGA voters.

Good jumped out and and endorsed DeSantis early on when he did not have to. Where was his fidelity to principle. And he is caught on video trashing Trump.


17 posted on 06/22/2024 9:45:01 AM PDT by odawg
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To: 9YearLurker

I have many issues with William F. Buckley Jr. who founded National Review in the old days...but one of his funniest ideas was to randomly pick names out of the phone books and put them in Congress.

That is obviously a bit dated—maybe a lottery system where you pay $1 if you want to be included in the list.

If election fraud is de facto legal we should stop wasting our time with elections.


18 posted on 06/22/2024 9:46:24 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: 9YearLurker
Just maybe we should select pols by their fidelity to our principles and positions—and not to a particular political personality.

Agreed.

28 posted on 06/22/2024 10:07:40 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: 9YearLurker

Unless, of course, when given the opportunity to back the best candidate possible he chooses the deep-state preferred candidate like DeSantis, right?


31 posted on 06/22/2024 10:10:53 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Yeah, who cares if he had the most conservative record in all of Congress, all that matters is whether Trump liked him or not. /s


33 posted on 06/22/2024 10:18:36 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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