Geeze!
Are some of you so single issue and narrow that you can’t see the risks of the alternatives? In all purity, the right to life will not exist in a Marxist society!
You can define and parse all you want - and be beautifully religiously pure - but you are pissing in the wind if you think the ideology alone should dominate the entire discussion. If you don’t have a supportive party, you don’t have a secular platform. And the best chance for support of your position is McCain/Palin. The alternatives basically suck.
I’d like to believe that the pragmatic purists are the ones who will prevail in this election.
I dislike (vast understatement) much of what McCain stands for, and yet, now that he has named a genuine conservative as his running mate, there’s no way on earth I can be kept from voting for the ticket, or campaigning in its behalf.
… after which I hope that all of my fellow conservatives will do all that is within their power to hold McCain’s feet to the fire, and to demand that his vice president have a significant voice in his administration.
It’s one thing to compromise with those who would bring our republic to her knees. It’s quite another to hold so single-mindedly to conservative tenets that, by default, we wind up allowing such scoundrels to take the wheel.
Talk about cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. Some purist conservatives appear willing to perform an entire face-ectomy.
~ joanie