More liberal attempts at guilt trips. How can I make you understand? Aside from the fact you don’t want to and insist in dragging out a losing battle, lets try this.
Many people who considered themselves conservatives threw out their credibility when they went out and actively campaigned for a liberal and trashed their ‘fellow’ conservatives. Now, faced with the reality that those of us who tried bringing them to their senses were right afterall, they just want to pretend it never happened and go right back to the way things were. all nice and without having to take responsibility.
Unfortunately, reality does not work like that. The reality we live in is that when faced with the option of conservative or liberal, these people chose to trash conservatives and go on a net-wide tear campaigning for their liberal. Thousands of posts attest to that.
Some of us ave no problem with our political decisions as we do not have the burden of tying ourselves into knots of self-justification. That makes some of you angry. Well, dunno what to tell you. Decades of people doing that very thing got us to where we are today. Own it. Had enough of you stuck with us and to your claimed beliefs, we might not be in this mess. But they knew better. Principle did not matter, so they said.
I really have no pity for any of them. Actions have consequences. Had they actually believed in the conservatism they playacted at on the net to fit in, they would have campaigned for a conservative and got him elected. But they did not.
Oh well. Live and learn.
Norm, I am not a liberal, and I am not attempting a guilt trip. I asked a simple question, then answered it for you. Sounds like you are projecting just a bit.
I did not vote for Romney in the primary, even though it was too late by the time it came to my state. Once he was nominated as the candidate, I DID vote for him. I had two choices -
1.) vote against obama by voting for someone who had a chance of winning (ROmney), or
2.) not vote for Romney (by either voting for obama, staying home, or voting for another candidate).
The only choice that would have helped prevent obama from being reelected was my choice. I am a pragmatist.