If you can’t vote for the conservative when the other two options are this bad, you will never get a conservative nominated on the Republican ticket.
Lincoln said, ‘I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.’
The Republicans are going to have to give me someone to vote for instead of someone to vote against if they want my vote. They’ve played that game too many times for it to work on me again.
As I said, all that you say is true.
But one of the tenets of conservatism is realism. Liberals dwell in the La-La land of rainbows, unicorns and cotton candy, but one of the reasons conservatism does work is that it deals in the best way possible (hopefully) with the reality of a given situation.
We are conservatives, and while it IS apparently true that we don’t have direct control over the dummies at the RNC, we DO have indirect control over the money they get, and they are acutely aware that conservatives are unhappy.
The reality is, though, that the RNC and GOP IS a bureaucracy, by definition slow moving and sluggish. Plus, votes have been cast. We may not like it, but this is what we have to work with.
This is our “Sh*t Sandwich”, and being successful in life involves the eating of them on occasion. Over time, the ingestion of the aforesaid sandwich pays off because of the incremental gains made from making unpalatable or unpopular choices will offset the much larger losses incurred by simply ignoring a situation or cutting off a nose to spite a face.
Liberals will always be content to go home and cut off their noses. As conservatives, we deal with the best we have and make do. This looks like what it will be for the next four years if we are lucky. Again, this is not fact but my opinion.