[Conservative Goddess]

Fear is a powerful master and the only tool available to those who have no demonstrable record on which to stand. The fact that the Republicans must resort to fearmongering simply underscores their lack of accomplishment. I refuse to respond to the "The Evil Dem would be so much worse". Without demonstrable progress on domestic issues, Republicans will not get my vote.

Withholding my vote or casting it for a third party is significantly different than casting it for a Dim. It is not, as you allege, "a defacto vote for Hillary." It is merely one less that she must counter. If the Republicans want my vote, they simply must earn it. That point is non-negotiable.

[Mia T]

 

Fear is a powerful master and the only tool available to those who have no demonstrable record on which to stand. The fact that the Republicans must resort to fearmongering simply underscores their lack of accomplishment. I refuse to respond to the "The Evil Dem would be so much worse". Without demonstrable progress on domestic issues, Republicans will not get my vote. -- Conservative Goddess



And I will add this......We are NOT all knowing. Be very, very careful of trusting in a spirit of discernment that is based in fear, else you risk sitting in judgement of a friend, not enemy.--Kimberly GG

If being all-knowing was a prerequisite to action, we would all be in a state of permanent paralysis. Interestingly, this is bill clinton's favorite demagogic ploy :

'Through a glass darkly' is bill clinton's favorite biblical metaphor and his fixers' spin-of-last-resort.

When properly misconstrued, the phrase at once captures and effectuates the clinton con perfectly, placing clinton conveniently beyond the reach of criticism, impeachment (figuratively speaking), and, most important, punishment.

It is wrong to bear false witness because we all see through [the] glass darkly.--bill clinton

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY:
HOW DECADES OF CLINTON DOUBLE-DEALING COMPROMISED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
Mia T, March 8, 2006

I try to base my thinking on reasoned analysis of the facts, as best as I can discern them.

And fear is not necessarily a bad thing. It can be adaptive or it can be maladaptive. And as a matter of fact, it is usually adaptive. We depend on fear for our survival. It initiates our 'fight or flight' response. It is only 20th-century psychologizing that focused undue attention on the maladaptive variety.

Fear of the islamofascist terrorists (and by extension, fear of the return of the clintons to power) is adaptive; it is appropriate.

FIGHT? OR FLIGHT?

Will we return the clintons to power and flee? Or will we elect a Republican and continue to fight? (Fleeing is tantamount to surrendering: When terrorists declare war on you and commit acts of war against you, you are perforce at war. At that point you have only one decision to make: Do you fight or do you surrender? For eight years, the clintons repeatedly chose surrender.)

As for a demonstrable record of accomplishment domestically, there is nothing that remotely approaches the importance of, or complexity of, (or the ingratitude for,) Bush's record on homeland defense-for-real. I cannot imagine what it must do to a person to have that kind of responsibility on one's shoulders 24/7 for almost five years, not being able to talk about the successes even as the seditious Left broadcasts every 'failure' real and imagined (and self-fulfilled--think 'Tet Offensive')....

I am not a booster for the professional pol of any stripe--in my opinion we must, with time, get rid of them all--but I am sickened by this ingratitude on the Right almost as much as I am by the sedition on the Left.

It is time for a reality check.