Vanbasten: “If it is the choice of whether to take one step back or five steps back from the conservative agenda, I’m going with one.”
Unfortunately, we keep one and two-stepping to the left. Even Reagan, God bless his soul, couldn’t reverse this country’s decline into socialism. Just 25 years ago we were talking about eliminating entire federal departments. Now, in our own ranks, are candidates who support mandatory health insurance, a nationwide smoking ban, and large-scale illegal alien amnesties.
You know, I probably wouldn’t care so much about the left except for the fact they won’t leave me and other citizens alone. They aren’t content to ruin just their own cities and states. They want to take the entire nation with them, and no one may decline to participate. And they once called this nation, “Land of the free, home of the brave!”
Liberal-lite is no better than pure liberal, since the end results are essentially the same. With candidates like McCain, it’s only going to take us a little bit longer to reach the same destination as Hillary. And, I think I can make a very good case that a RINO is actually worse than a leftist in that a RINO infiltrates and destroys conservative institutions from within.
What can we do? Don’t vote for RINOs!
We recall the loss of two elections due to the third party candidate, Ross Perot, and we are determined not to repeat that fiasco.
We are now seeing, live on this thread and elsewhere, the same thing, played on a larger scale, with just enough of a twist so as to pass unrealized for what it is, until too late.
The left, directly and indirectly, with money and media, is funding and providing publicity for every publicity hound with an "(R)" after their name they can find.
We will certainly end up with one Republican nominee for President, and almost certainly not have a viable third party candidate.
But by the time we get there, 80% of those who cared who was the Republican nominee will be pissed off that their preferred choice didn't make it, and half of those will be so disgusted at the eventual choice that they refuse to get out of bed on Election Day to vote.
It doesn't matter who you favor, and who you despise. One of the candidates that I happen to favor, Mitt Romney, inspires just as much hatred as one of the candidates I despise, John McCain. Which way is which doesn't matter here.
The only Republican candidate who has half a chance of being supported by all Republicans, Fred Thompson, is getting zero support outside of his natural constituency, zero outside money, and zero mention in the mainstream media. Hence, his chances are discouragingly low.
Whomever does get the nomination will be the first choice of 20% of Republicans, the no-way-in-hades choice of another 20%, and something in between for the remaining.
There is no more certain way than this to ensure our widespread defeat in November, in national and local races. So far as I can recall, this degree of factionalism is unprecedented. It is not business as usual.
The bitter, divisive factionalism we see on this thread is a drop of rain from a darkening cloud of tyranny over our Grand Ol' Party, this election, our nation, and free people.