I respect the base, but only for as long as they are willing to give a little to save our country.
I’m tired, I’m angry, I’m frustrated....and I fear for our troops.
The differences between McCain and Obama were HUGE. So to say that he was far enough to the left that those closest to him saw Obama as a viable option, even preferable, is ridiculous, in my honest opinion.
Many comments I’ve read and received seem to imply that the base of the Republican party is the reason Obama won. If that is true...and we will learn so in the days ahead, then I will have lost all respect for our base. You don’t cave in when men and women are fighting for your rights...even your rights to cave in. damn, just damn...
No, you’re not getting it, the base did turn out. It was the moderates who left for Obama. It’s the moderates who publicly endorsed him despite him being the most evil man ever to be this nation’s President.
The base has been giving a little and giving a little and giving a little. In terms of domestic policy, Bush is a socialist. McCain offered the same, or worse. Half the Republican senators are RINOs. They lost in 2006, not because they were Republicans but because they lost their path from the principals of small, less intrusive, less expensive government.
They spent like drunken democrats for 6 years and voters got tired of that. They embraced an enlarged government and voters got tired of that. They tried to force amnesty on the people and the voters got tired of that.
The solution to a wrong turn is NOT to continue turning in the same direction.