Now Rabscuttle385 comes along and states the obvious. I wasn't going to go there, but frankly, I fail to see a valid objection to what he stated. When you get right down to it, if you back someone who is a traitor to our cause, you're either completely uninformed, or you agree with them and have tarnished your own reputation so soundly, that the only impression left is a very ugly one.
Let that bit soak in a while, folks. There is a simple but very important wisdom here.
I have never thought Sarah Palin was the sharpest pencil in the box. For this reason I don't assert the same "Traitor to our cause" comment I do to McCain.
You seem to be following this line of thinking:
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte
...Which I applaud, I really do. And normally I would be content to embrace a similar attitude. But in our current state, and in the present political economy, while I might be congenial enough to waive off such things in the general sense, the raw statistical risk is one I daresay we cannot afford.
Once again I rise to present the terms of the Reagan Coalition: *No* conservative faction should be expected to 'take one for the team' when it comes to their basic unmovable principles. Our point of compromise *must* begin after the point where those principles are served.
Is it right to support a candidate who supported LOST? This is no mere faux pas - this erodes the very sovereignty of our nation. And the follow-on question: Is it right to expect our defenders of the Constitution, that faction among us who are civil-libertarian minded, and those in the military who are put at risk by LOST, to compromise... to take one for the team?
With that as an example, I must react with a jaundiced eye. WHATEVER my personal feelings might be, I know that many of our brothers-in-arms will not be able to swallow that 'mistake' and vote for her. And I know that they will likely support someone else, causing a fracture which immediately spells defeat.
And if by chance there is victory, and whether by malice or ignorance, if there comes a day when LOST is once again before the president's pen... that victory will be a Pyrrhic one indeed.
So if one is to err, I would submit that it is better to err toward suspecting malice - toward assuming the worst and acting accordingly... at the very least, where conservative principles are concerned. Folks seem to forget how many of our elected representatives crow Conservatism until they are in office - whereupon they drop the act and revert to form. Perhaps that is a cynical view, but it is one earned by many years of betrayal.