There are huge differences between them. To suggest otherwise is sophomoric.
***I suggest otherwise, so call me a sophomore. I’d rather have an enemy in front of me I can counter than an enemy behind me stabbing me in the back.
I like how Cogamer had to say it, so once again I’m stealing it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909436/posts?page=158#152
some people on this board are PUSHING it. They not only expect us to grin and tolerate it, they expect us to help!! They see conservatives being marginalized, and then bash conservatives for not supporting the politicians who are marginalizing them. It’s insane!
Let’s look at this through the prism of other movements: Would pro-choice women vote for a politician who announced he wanted to make abortion illegal? Would black voters ever support a politician who wanted to bring back segregation? Would muslims ever support a candidate who was on the record as saying islam was evil?
Would their friends even TRY to tell them they HAD to vote for these candidates even if they didn’t want to?
No! But conservatives are expected to vote for anyone who has an R after their name, no matter how dangerous to the movement, just to avoid the ire of a bunch of wishy-washy phonies whose only brush with conservatism is the fact that they post to this website.
They need to understand - if they nominate Rudy, THEY are responsible for what follows. THEY know many will refuse to support him. So, turning their flawed logic on its head : If they support Rudy, they must actually want Hillary to win. Indeed - if Hillary changed parties they’d be telling us we had to support HER to stop OBAMA!!!!
152 posted on 10/10/2007 6:28:13 PM PDT by COgamer
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What I find to be odd about this whole conversation is that those who rail against Conservatives here seem to forget that we have no personal control over the Conservative body, and that in fact, no one does.
What will undoubtedly happen is completely automatic, with no input to the masses of the Conservative wing. All that we Conservatives here are doing is delivering a warning message.
What keeps the Conservatives "in the fold" for the Republicans, be it the Constitutional (libertarian) or the Social (Christian) Conservatives, are the principles set out by the party. If the party does not embrace the values of these factions they will vote elsewhere- They always do.
Whether others take heed is the point of decision, as the outcome is inevitable.