Did you see the post I put up above that someone sent to me tonight that he votes issues instead of candidates and doesn't care if he loses? Well I care if I lose because when I lose my votes Democrats win and when they win any issue on the social side I am for loses because they are DOA when Democrats control the Congress. How far do you think any social issue is going to get in today's Congress -- DOA!
I have more issues than national security but it is #1 today and for my Congressman or Senator I have a lot more. For President I support the Republican who has the best chance of winning and beating the Dem in November. If I agree with him 80% of the time, he is my candidate.
I would love to have a candidate that could win that would be the ultimate conservative on every issue but that is not going to happen and it is getting farther away thanks to the attitude I see on here of 'my way or no way' and then trash a person if you don't agree. Talking about running people out of the Republican Party because we don't meet your standards in who we support is ludicrous. Some of us have been voting since Nixon and working for Goldwater as teenagers shows how shortsighted some people are on here that think they can throw us out of the Party we helped grow.
Social conservatives like what I see on this thread are the reason we are having trouble because you wanted it all right away instead of increments and when you didn't get what they wanted, some threw temper tantrums and now blame Bush as I just read someone put up.
Why don't you all cool your jets for the evening and stop wanting to throw us off this board. This lifelong Republican is not going anywhere after spending years in the trenches electing good candidates who are conservative.
Your points are well taken. Honestly. However it is only on the Rudy threads that it becomes glaringly obvious the overall objections to his positions. You talk of being a good republican and beating the dims. Here in Florida Kathleen Harris had no GOP support but did well with what she had. The blame game is more than social conservatives. That seat was given to the dims and the Foley fiasco was the icing.