The issue isn't whether you preferred McClintock to Schwarzenegger. The issue isn't whether you were right then, or more right than wrong. Politics in the real world means evaluating the political landscape with clarity, and putting the better candidate forth who can win and advance the conservative agenda. Sometimes the candidates will succeed and advance the conservative agenda on some fronts, and other times they will fail. The idea is to get MORE conservative candidates than less conservative candidates. Taking a posture where the perfect is the enemy of the good divorces one from being effective in the political process.
Your understanding of politics is immature, and its deficiency is made clear by your reliance on a vulgar lexicon. But most striking is that you lack the capacity to grasp the facts, as you totally have missed my point. This is more evidence that indicates that you are the type to avoid and more importantly, to reject.
>>> “I’ve been interested in politics since my dad took me to a GOP meeting when I was 8 years old. I can smell a true conservative from a mile away. You sir, are anything but a conservative. Your previous post -the one I responded to- is compelling proof of that.”
Lol.. And what, if I may ask, does a “true” conservative smell like? Do different types of conservatives have a different smell? Do religious conservatives smell like grape? How about limited government type conservatives? do they smell like chocolate or perhaps like cantaloupe?
As for the rest of your post... it was just a lot of the same naive bleating ive heard from the GOP for years.
Let me clue you in on something... New York is lost, as is pretty much all of the upper north east. They will not, in our or our children’s life times be free states. The ideology of the majority of people in that region is no longer compatible with limited government. Grape and cantaloupe “conservatives” are wasting time, resources and effort there. That is the real world clarity of the “political” landscape as it pertains to New York.
In the end its all about managing limited resources, just as in a real shooting war, you have to pick your battles and make the best use of resources to get the biggest return on investment (lives, supplies and machinery). We cant fight this war indefinitely and its in our best interest to bring it to an end (in our favor) as quickly as possible. Distractions and false hope are dangerous to momentum and morale and anything that happens in New York can be classified as a distraction and or false hope.
Things you should cheer about...
“Angry malcontent limited government type conservatives” (I wonder what they smell like?) gaining control over a state like Texas and REALLY exercising the full extent of the 10th amendment to the constitution. Make THAT happen and I will cheer along with you. THAT should be the goal of every living grape and cantaloupe conservative. Its not gonna happen in New York though and only the extremely naive, bordering on mentally handicap, will even think its possible.
I completely understand your nostalgia for the “good ol days” when you were 8 hanging with your dad and the GOP, but this is now and in the NOW we have what can effectively be classified as Marxist revolutionaries running roughshod over the federal government and the state governments of a significant number of states. THAT is the clarity of the situation, so you’ll just need to excuse me if I am a little “rough” in my treatment of foolish people.