And this is how you would have conservatism end: “...not with a bang but a whimper” (or whine: shouting down, denigrating and making personal attacks on all who may share your values, but maybe not all your tactics to achieve them. To suggest that those who may disagree with your tactics and your choice of flag bearer for our common cause are not (your words) “God-loving, Liberty-loving folks” is both frightening and divisive. We are here at this forum because we share many common beliefs and values. Let’s not forget that the Forum was originally the public area in Rome where trials were heard, differing points of view argued. “Pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Liberty, pro-family, pro-America, pro-constitution, pro-gun, pro-limited government” (again, your words) describes me as well as it describes you and Governor Palin. I admire her as you do.
I know all of us here want to see a conservative in the White House. Unfortunately politics is not a pretty game. Sometimes in order to win we have to toe that very fine line between what is the ideal and what is reality. We have to do that without sacrificing the win or our core beliefs and values.
I am not embarrassed by this great Republic. And I will not “take a hike”. I will do all in my power—as I did when Ronald Reagan was running—to put a conservative in the White House.
One more thing. I know the parable of the sheep, the wolf, and the Sheep Dog. However, there is an interesting twist. In the world of Sheep Dogs there are also Mastiffs, Wolf Hounds, Pit Bulls and at least two of my brother’s mangy mongrels that do not know or care about the difference between Sheep and Sheep Dogs.
Maybe we should stop focusing at what divides us and start seeing and appreciating the common cause we share. We die if we eat our own.
Uhhhh, that is really taking that poster to the wood shed, but 233 is a re posting of a post by JR to the anti-Palin troll Bob J. Read 233 again, the only sentence that I wrote was the very first one at the top. It is JR that you want to send your response to.