[mkjessup]

What these clueless fools at IBD and other compromisers don't understand is that it is not the responsibility of conservatives to elect liberals, RINOs, and NON-conservatives.

It is the responsibility of the political party to nominate candidates that stand for, and uphold conservative positions, IF they hope to appeal to conservative voters.

For example, let's say I go to the 'Grand Old Steak House' where I've always enjoyed a good traditionally prepared steak, and I order the 'Reagan Delmonico' as always, medium rare, and the waiter brings out a large liberal serving of ground-up RINO burger, complete with gristle ala McCain, that looks *and* smells BAD.

I tell the waiter "this isn't what I ordered", and the waiter says "it's all we have, you'll just have to eat it", and I tell the waiter to take that putrid sh*t back to the kitchen and to tell the chef to go to Hell. That's not what I ordered, I'm damn sure not going to eat it, let alone pay good money for it.

I get up and head for the door, the manager of the steak house pleads with me "oh, but you've been coming here for so long, can't you just eat this RINO burger? We don't want to go out of business if you and your fellow diners refuse to eat what we're serving!"

That's when I tell the manager in no uncertain terms, "when you stopped serving the Reagan Delmonico, you lost my business."

If the Grand Old Steak House has to close it's doors, so be it. When they presume to tell the diner what they will and will not eat, despite what is on the menu and what is preferred, that only proves that their business model no longer works, and they don't deserve any further loyalty.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Right on, mkjessup! Good analogy!

[COBOL2Java]

I get up and head for the door, the manager of the steak house pleads with me "oh, but you've been coming here for so long, can't you just eat this RINO burger? We don't want to go out of business if you and your fellow diners refuse to eat what we're serving!"

Don't forget the part where the other diners, who have already decided that they'll chomp down on the RINO burger, get up and start calling you names because you won't eat the burger, and issue dire warnings about what will happen if you don't "calm down," "grow up" and settle for the RINO burger.