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.
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
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? 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. |