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There are paranoiacs and purity testers all over the place. If you disagree with them, you’re a troll, agent provocateur, a mole.....whatever. March in lockstep or face the goon squad interrogatories.

I am also a believer in "Trust, but verify."

I believe that Priebus will do a better job than Steele, but I also donated over $500 to the Scott Brown campaign only to have him vote in favor of FinReg. Like many others, I ignored Brown's less-than-conservative history in hopes that the iron of conservatism in his words was going to match up with what we needed him to in terms of deeds. Is he better than Kennedy? Of course. Is he the next conservative icon? Far from it.

For twenty years, we held our collective noses and voted for the lesser of two evils. In doing so we have steadily compromised more and more of our conservative values in favor of beating the other guy at the voting booth, and compromise of this sort has eroded our freedoms and caused us to arrive at a unique place in our nation's history. While we have been concerned with supporting the party to win elections, the other guy has been concerned with supporting the movement, in hopes of winning the country. I think that most of us have no illusions as to what a progressive victory means for America. At this point it almost seems as though we are barely still engaged in a battle between political ideologies; instead, it seems that we are increasingly engaged in a contest between good and evil.

What is the lesson we can draw from this? The same one that led conservativism to the forefront of the last elections: do not compromise on conservative values. We booted out a sizeable number of liberal republicans from local, state, and national offices precisely because of that reason alone. Conservatism carried the day, even more than the individual candidates did, and THAT is what will restore our liberty and our country.

I have been fortunate that in our local races, we’ve had Conservatives run on the GOP tickets and not RINOs or wolves in sheep’s clothing. It took quite a few years for Pat Toomey to finally win the senate seat from PA. While Toomey is not conservative enough for my tastes,and I held my nose while casting my vote, he’ll need less holding of his feet to any fire. Unfortunately, the worthless POS Specter is going to be infecting young minds in higher education until he finally does the right thing and drops dead from some ailment or old age.