This is good. Doheny is not a liberal Republican if he was I’d have supported Hoffman going full on again win or lose but this is a case of consolidation behind the winning conservative candidate in the race and I’m glad Doug did this. He is a good man who helped inspire a lot of people who had written off getting involved in elections and his role in conservative ascendancy should not be minimized. An everyman can compete and as we have seen in other races they can win.
That said I wish conservatives wouldn’t rush back to the safety of the establishment skirts but it will take time before the average conservative voter steps forward with confidence and isn’t afraid to stand on principle even with the possibility of “sure” defeat. When we stop accepting radical left wing candidates who are a little bit fiscally conservative and calling them moderates when they are the furtherest thing from it we will have grown up as a movement because standing on principle is what grown ups do. Children expect things to be awarded and given to them without much hard work or investment. Every candidate that loses and has succeeded in spreading the message of liberty to a new generation wins because when we retreat into silence and machevelian aims we guarantee that even if we “win” our cause is lost.
“That said I wish conservatives wouldn’t rush back to the safety of the establishment skirts but it will take time before the average conservative voter steps forward with confidence and isn’t afraid to stand on principle even with the possibility of “sure” defeat.”
Yes. We need brave souls to fight for this nation - and we all need to support them against the onslaught of the propagandists.