It’s amazing how people have this fantasy that their politicians will somehow “change” for the better simply because they want them to. I was here 8 years ago in the battle royale for Ah-nold in California. I was viscerally opposed to him, cited those “harsh” comments about him and how horrible a Governor he would be, and had some of the most vicious and personal attacks thrown in my face. Well guess what ? Every thing I made claim to about him came true and then some. He ain’t the only one, either. I don’t need to watch debates, commercials, talking points, I just look at the person and their record. That’s how I know. Some folks apparently can’t stand that. It’s not my problem. But it is my problem if I fail to raise awareness of it. I did the same thing 3 years ago with keeping Slick Willard’s record and deceit on view so that he’d be stopped. Thank heavens he was.
I’m not talking about “change” in the internal come to Jesus change - I’m talking about the kind of change even Bill Clinton went through. Given the Newt led congress of 95-96, he actually governed far more conservatively than did GWB on most issues and the result was good governing.
I have given up trying to change Washington’s morals. I simply want a result of conservative governing, and if it takes pragmatic realities, so be it. Any of those in the GOP field plus a congress that say, has another 25-30 tea party members in the House and a handful more in the Senate will give us a far superior product to what we have now.
And whatever goes on in the hearts and minds of some of those in Washington will be irrelevant to our lives, which is really the only true measurement of good versus bad government.
And for good measure, I will say this. Too many on our side seem to fully believe it when a conservative “grows in office” and becomes liberal or moderate. (Lindsay Graham).
But somehow, we say when a guy becomes more conservative, he is a flip flopper. It’s like we refuse to believe that we can ever convert one to our side from the dark side. I invite being skeptical, but it’s intellectually dishonest not to think it can happen.