“Sorry, Jim, but I think the stakes are too high this time to afford daliances with third parties or sitting out the election. We help elect a Republican president and then hold him accountable. It just might save the Republic.”
Exactly how do you hold a GOP president accountable if your position is support the GOP regardless. Isn’t that a pretty toothless position. The same “The Survival Of The Republic” chant goes up every election cycle. In 2006 one of the bits of wisdom that was floating around was that if the Dems. took back congress they would immediately surrender in Iraq....the last time I checked even Murtha was admitting that the surge was working, so that didn’t really come to pass. The stakes in a national election are always high, but IMO complaining loudly that the GOP is going too far to the left, and then voting for the GOP right or wrong doesn’t exactly send a strong message....Reminds me of that old cliche about dad telling his bickering kids in the back seat that if they don’t quiet down he’ll turn this car around right now and go back home. Sorry, but that won’t work, or I should say it hasn’t worked yet, and at this point I’m not optimistic.