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Well, the reality of the matter is, in politics winning is everything. You can't effect change if you're sitting on the sidelines. You can't effect change if you're sitting on the sidelines.

You want "reality"? OK, how's this: you also can't win if you're in a no-win situation.

I return to the analogy I offered yesterday, of the battered wife. If she keeps returning to the place where she's been beaten up and humiliated she's only enabling the abuser and prolonging her misery. Yet there are many who do so. They promise themselves that things will get better, but do they ever?

Walking out on the party that betrayed us is not a solution for victory a year from now, but so what? I trust you & I aspire to a political horizon somewhat further out than that. It's a real bid for change, and is most decidedly not "doing nothing".

If I have to decide between "winning" (on terms set by our philosophical adversaries) and the Constitution, the choice seems clear to me. Time for some tough love, Jim.

Sorry, Romulus. If you lose, you...lose.

I will go with the horse that brung me, the Republicans.

I will tell you once again what Common Tator so ably pointed out. If you want to change things, you have to convince most of the people that your principles are the correct ones and get them on your side. It does no good to bitch and moan that the sheeple will not see the light. Democrats don't make those mistakes, they understand that power goes to he who can get fifty percent plus one of the vote.

What matters are not your principles nor my principles. What matters is what a majority of voters believe in on Election Day.

Our job as conservatives is to move the principles as far to the right as possible, taking some defeats along the way.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

No thanks on the tough love. The Democrats have supplied way more of that than I've ever wanted. I think I'll continue voting Republican and contine trying to get the most conservative people as possible elected.

By the way, Bustamante offered us tough love too. We told him to shove it.