The radical right needs to realize that there are all types of Republicans. People who vote Republican don't necessarily believe exactly as you do, no matter how much you want it to be so.
I vote Republican because I'm financially conservative, somewhat hawkish, and very pro-military. I'm socially libertarian, and there are a lot of Republicans like me.
If you confine the party to ONLY what you believe - small government in your pockets, big government in your bedroom, big government protectionism, you're going to have a typical third party - enough to spoil an election but not nearly enough to begin to start swinging the pendulum back in toward smaller government.
Consider all the issues, consider the alternative candidate and how the country would be if that individual were elected, and make your decision. Don't just sit on your butt because any given candidate doesn't agree with 100% of your positions.
Don't just sit on your butt because any given candidate doesn't agree with 100% of your positions.
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Far from it -- and I only vote Republican because they are the CLOSEST to my view of what is needed in this nation, not personal, selfish desires. And I am certainly not a radical Republican (whatever that might be) --- in fact even though I vote Repub like you, I don't really call myself a Republican anymore -- in many respects, I am embarassed to -- I, like many Americans, am a CONSTITUIONAL CONSERVATIVE, liberal on some social issues, fiscally very conservative, and very conservative on anything that challenges the definition of America as laid down by our framers or that would remove the established, settled freedoms and liberties of REAL AMERICANS.
So there. That is my position and proud of it, and proud to be an American PATRIOT.