[Jedidah]

I love this statement:

“Let me lay it out for every Republican primary voter. You support the guy you want, you rally for him, you write some checks, you vote in the primaries… and maybe your guy wins, maybe he loses. If the guy who beats your guy is half a loaf, you shrug your shoulders, hope your guy is his running mate, and get ready for the general. Life goes on.”

Would that all FReepers who love their country would adopt this common-sense approach this election year.

[tips up]

This is a good approach. The conservative causes we care about will be set back decades if one of the Dems gets in the White House and gets to appoint the next 1-2 SCOTUS justices.

[COgamer]

“If the guy who beats your guy is half a loaf, you shrug your shoulders, hope your guy is his running mate, and get ready for the general. Life goes on.”

Would that all FReepers who love their country would adopt this common-sense approach this election year.
them.”

I haven’t heard anyone disputing this philosophy. If the eventually nominee is, as the quote says, worth half a loaf, I’m sure Freepers will rally behind him.

[LowCountryJoe]

I would have liked that statement six weeks ago but I’m much more angry now than I was then. Reading from the purists around here and their tantrums/pouting, I am disturbingly eager for the big split to occur so that the purists go their way and the non-statists go ours

[DocH]

If the guy who beats your guy is half a loaf

Fred, Fred, Fred.

C'mon now.

If the guy who beats my guy is RINO-rudy, he's not even CLOSE to being "HALF a loaf" (read that, HALF CONSERVATIVE).

He's NINETY PERCENT LIBERAL TURD, and not worth my vote.

[aruanan]

Would that all FReepers who love their country would adopt this common-sense approach this election year.

You mean instead of going off in a snit, pulling up the drawbridge, and declaring, "We're sitting out this election, withholding our vote, and turning the country over to the Democrats so that Jesus will know we would have voted for him if only he had run"?

[billhilly]

“Let me lay it out for every Republican primary voter. You support the guy you want, you rally for him, you write some checks, you vote in the primaries… and maybe your guy wins, maybe he loses. If the guy who beats your guy is half a loaf, you shrug your shoulders, hope your guy is his running mate, and get ready for the general. Life goes on.”

This can’t be repeated enough. Our country needs this message in order to remain free of leftist domination.

[mission9]

This “common sense” advice is of course, promoted by the MSM because they want either Hillary or Rudy. A divided Republican party means Rudy gets the nomination. Fred does not have the resources to take on Hillary in the general election. He does have the name recognition to be a spoiler for Mitt Romney.

Objectively, you really have to love Fred to say that his performance on Meet the Depressed was anything but C-.

[Ancesthntr]

“Let me lay it out for every Republican primary voter. You support the guy you want, you rally for him, you write some checks, you vote in the primaries… and maybe your guy wins, maybe he loses. If the guy who beats your guy is half a loaf, you shrug your shoulders, hope your guy is his running mate, and get ready for the general. Life goes on.”

Would that all FReepers who love their country would adopt this common-sense approach this election year.

BTTT. This is sage advice. What the Founders feared - political parties - has been part of the political landscape for 200+ years. It isn't ideal, but it IS reality. Either your party - where people generally believe as you do, even with some relatively minor disagreements - wins or the other party does - i.e. the party that is against virtually everything that you're for, and for virtually everything that you're against. For me, this is a simple choice, even if I'd never vote for the guy who gets the nomination in the primaries. Look to 1992 to see what happens when people break ranks - we not only got Slick Willy for 8 years, we got Senator Clinton and the possibility of ANOTHER 8 years (which will, IMHO, be FAR worse for our liberties).

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Would that all FReepers who love their country would adopt this common-sense approach this election year."

Yeah.

My own similar philosophy:

The primaries are the time to vote for.

The general election is the time to vote against.

[HawaiianGecko]

  “Let me lay it out for every Republican primary voter. You support the guy you want, you rally for him, you write some checks, you vote in the primariesÂ… and maybe your guy wins, maybe he loses. If the guy who beats your guy is half a loaf, you shrug your shoulders, hope your guy is his running mate, and get ready for the general. Life goes on.”Would that all FReepers who love their country would adopt this common-sense approach this election year.

Reminds me of the following comment I read somewhere:

The adult thing to do is support your favorite candidate in the primaries, and back the winner in the general election.  Childish behavior is to take ones vote and go home if that candidate is not your favorite.  It is extremely rare when procrastination proves to be the correct path of action.  Why have primaries and a general election?  Let's just ask a couple of narrow minded folks who the only candidate they will vote for is, and simply anoint them.

prə-'kras-tə-ˌnā-shən: intransitive verb : to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.  For the person procrastinating this may result in stress, a sense of guilt, the loss of productivity, the creation of crisis, and the chagrin of others for not fulfilling one's responsibilities or commitments. While it is normal for individuals to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological or physiological disorder.