You are exactly correct, and my point exactly. Does the future of this country bode us well by installing someone even less conservative, and in fact socialist/marxist or in Obama's case a possible probable muslim sleeper?
If you are trying to make the Republican Party more conservative by your actions/inaction you may as well try to make the Democratic Party more conservative. The only way the Republican Party will become more conservative is for conservatives to get active in it's decision making from the inside. But good luck even on that endeavor. Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition tried to do just that and even with all their resources they were unsuccessful.
Why was that you may ask? The answer is simple, the Republican Party is comprised of moderates to hardline conservatives (I catagorize myself as somewhere between conservative and hardline conservative), with the majority being moderate. A sad reality to be sure but a reality nonetheless. On the obverse, the Democratic Party is comprised of moderates to ultra liberal, with the majority being liberal.
But back to my original point, yes it is the future I am concerned about which is why if John McCain is nominated, which appears to be the case, I will vote for John McCain. For it is the future of this great nation I concern myself with, not the future of the Republican Party.
I agree with you, Robert. As much as many of us would like to have the political environment of the 1980’s, that environment is gone. Too many “new citizens”. Too many decades of leftist teachers running the schools and leftist professors running the universities. The country IS more liberal now than it was in 1980. Can anyone imagine a Ronald Reagan being elected Governor of California these days? Impossible.
We have to deal with the reality that exists, not the fantasy we all pine for. And given the current political reality, and looking at everything John McCain stands for and has stood for in his long career, and looking at what Barak Obama most certainly is, an unrepentant far-left socialist with extreme pacifist (maybe even pro-Islam pacifist) leanings, then the only thing an American PATRIOT can do (forget conservative) is vote against defeat, vote against marxism, vote against someone who would make the Islamofacists stronger and the American military weaker.
If the Republican party continues to drift libralward, what future do you see for the US?
susie