All I know is I’m dedicating myself this election cycle to the removal of the usurper from the white house.
Nothing else matters to me, not winning arguments on FR, not anything.
Go ahead, win the argument. You’re the winner. I stipulate you are the winner of this discussion.
But I repeat, for the sake of anyone who is interested, that I personally am dedicating myself this election cycle to the removal of the usurper from the white house.
Period.
End of story.
That’s all I care about.
The rest of you can go wallow in your ideological purity and I stipulate that you are all better than I am, but I don’t care. I’m going to dedicate myself to the unelection of Barack “The Usurper” Obama from his position as Faux President of the United States.
'Ideological Purity'... A republican buzz word (phrase).
As a Conservative, you should know how stupid the concept is. It is not bout 'ideological purity' at all, with the tangential exception that the closer we get to Conservatism, the more likely it is to get all the Conservative factions to turn out.
You may not care enough about Pro-Life issues for it to stop you from your ABO course - But I will guarantee that millions (and I mean millions) of average Christians will. And they will care about the sanctity of marriage. It is your hope that all those millions of Christians will set aside their immovable 'first things', and you are doing your part to make it happen, But I will guarantee you, they will *not*... Not just 'no', but 'oh hell, no!'
And without those Christians, Romney will not succeed. Period. So all of this hen-house bickering will amount to naught. His campaign is doomed.
One can tick your way down the list of immovable 'first things' if you'd like. You will find that to vote for Romney, Every_single_Conservative_principle must be set aside. That means the entire base has to set aside everything they believe in to vote for this POS.
That simply is not going to happen.
Hard to believe for you, I am sure, what with your Republican Beer Goggles on and all, but that is the truth of it. Watch and see.
Where the 'purity' argument DOES apply is in this: If the Rock-Ribbed Conservatives here can be convinced, that bodes well for the candidate, as true Conservatives represent the ideology of all of the factions together - If They like him, it is likely that all the factions will like him too.
As for me, to say I remain unconvinced is putting it in as mild a terminology as is possible.