Posted on 07/08/2010 9:30:08 AM PDT by MissesBush
At least you fessed up to it, your so called friends probably still think you're right.......
No.
LOL...
My friends have been kind. They probably knew I was wrong, but didn’t rub it in. They know me, and that I will take care of my own problem when I make a mistake.
I am honest. If I say something, it’s because I believe it. If I am shown to be wrong, I’ll agree and take my lumps.
Do you realize how rare that is here. Not to pat myself on the back, but in the twelve years I’ve been contributing here, I haven’t had five people come clean with me. We all make mistakes. It’s the honest well-meaning folks who admit to them.
Have I had one person who supports McCain come to me and say, I didn’t realize how bad he was until I read the things you documented? Not one. Have I had one person come to me and say I liked Palin, Fiorina, and Whitman a lot more before I read what type of person they were willing to support? Not one.
The folks on my side may not always get it, but at least they’re open and honest about what they do run across. That list of mine does disturb them. It does disturb them that people could sign on to support a man like that.
That’s open, curious, and honest. It would be nice to see a glimmer of that from folks who profess to be open and honest and righteous here, when trashing folks like us for addressing reality.
Thank you for reading the post and responding. I appreciate it.
D.O., I realize my brief answer was abrupt. But I did feel that you were missing my point in your vehemence about your point. No harm, no foul. But please reconsider what I was saying — at certain times, in certain races, we need to reluctantly conclude that buying a little time by voting for a naive, misguided and vulnerable candidate is better than either a) abstaining or b) voting for an evil candidate who is also fully entrenched and connected.
People often say that our votes for Perot helped Clinton gain the White House; and in hindsight, I agree. The timing was wrong. But the situation on the ground now is approximately 100 times more dire. We simply can’t afford to throw the next election to the Democrats out of ideological purity.
Has there ever been an election in your lifetime where you didn’t think the nation depended on the outcome so much, that you thought backing disgusting people on our side wasn’t necessary?
Look where that ideology, no matter how logical, has gotten us.
Now all we get are leftists, on BOTH sides.
Until a group of people stand up and state emphatically, I will only support people with wholesome ideals, we will never get them.
We are defeating ourselves, because they know we’ll settle.
I’m not saying this in anger. I honestly understand where you are coming from. At some point, we either take a stand or we watch this nation destroyed with our help.
Isn’t that the only conclusion of electing either an Obama OR a McCain to office? In your heart, you know damn well it is.
BTW: I knew the response was short and what that probably meant. No problem. Later...
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