Posted on 05/28/2014 6:28:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
More discussion on the topic of pragmatism and politics is critical. If conservatives decide to take their marbles and go home rather than fight to the bitter end because they feel their principles have been compromised, they will needlessly subject future generations to untold misery.
Voting for someone who agrees with you 90 percent of the time is far superior to voting for someone who disagrees with you 100 percent of the time. This is exactly what will happen if people refuse to exercise their civic duty and boycott elections because they feel betrayed. Personally, I am not supportive of abortion at all, but I can support people who feel differently if, in the gigantic scheme of things, they can help put an end to the murder of innocent babies. This is especially true of those who are personally inclined to save and protect life.
Perhaps an illustration is in order: Two armies are engaged in a war. Let's call the good army that is trying to defend an entire society the red army and the bad army that is trying to invade and pillage society the blue army. The blue army occupies a superior strategic position and is composed of slightly more troops, putting the red army at a distinct disadvantage. Some in the red army feel that they are right and, therefore, should simply march directly into battle with the blue army because right always wins.
Fortunately, some members of the red army are wise and have a better plan. They send a battalion of troops to the base of the mountain occupied by the blue army to distract them while the vast majority of red troops approach the mountain from the backside. They descend upon the blue army by surprise, completely vanquishing them and winning the war. The decoy red battalion may have sustained some casualties, but in the long run, the war was won, and the entire society was saved.
I hope this illustration is useful in helping some to understand that achieving a critical mass of conservatives and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only, as some call them) in office will ensure that we can get non-activist Supreme Court and federal judges in place who respect the U.S. Constitution. It is essential to achieve a critical mass of individuals in the U.S. House and Senate who can join with a president in upholding the Constitution. These representatives must believe in personal responsibility and creating a business-friendly environment, understand the balance between abundant fossil-fuel development and environmental safety, and yearn to elevate the government-dependent 47 percent rather than make them more dependent. They also must be totally pro-life and believe that the rule of law can undo a host of damaging regulations and restore the value system that made this nation great.
In the long run, with the help of God, we will be in a position to save millions of babies who otherwise would be slaughtered. With this kind of responsible empowerment, energizing a sluggish economy, bringing stability to a leaderless planet and facilitating innovation will not be that difficult. To sit helplessly by and pray for deliverance when the tools to achieve victory are in our hands is not useful. God helps those who help themselves.
Conservatives and those who share their values are the last bastion between freedom and tyranny. If the secular liberals, who are very clever, succeed in dividing us during the next two national elections, America as we know it will be gone. We can stop this, but we must work together. I disagree with those who think it is going to take decades to undo the damage that already has been done. Americans are exceptional and extremely resilient. We cannot allow ourselves to be defined by those who wish to fundamentally change our society.
I am convinced that Americans with common sense will soon regain power. It is essential that we not use the opportunity to exact revenge upon the liberals. Rather, we must govern by the Constitution in a way that is fair for all. It is not reasonable to have favorites and to enforce laws selectively. Most importantly, it is not the place of our government to rule the people; the government must always remember that it is in place to serve the people.
I believe that when people who were being manipulated by the secular liberals, including the media, have an opportunity to see how much better off they are when the proper relationship between the people and the government is restored, they will adopt a different attitude. This will empower them and the entire nation.
Now is the time to rise above partisan politics and recognize the incredible blessings God has bestowed upon our nation. It is time to elevate common sense, decency, honesty and compassion to their proper positions. Rather than simply repeating the words, we must actually achieve "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
I’ve never voted for a liberal, period. Never will.
Going along with "them" isn't servitude to the totalitarian left, not near so much as never understanding the following:
I don't care for Romney, what Boehner has done, nor for the GOPE. But they aren't really the enemy, they're just wrong, cowed, and don't understand their enemy. The enemy is and will always be the totalitarian left. That you (and others of the Johnny one notes) don't seem to understand that point is, how do I say.........
The reason we are perpetual losers.
Breitbart understood it well, too bad you Johnny one notes don't..........
You can't count on conservatives holding their nose any more and voting for liberal candidates.
Welcome to the new reality.
/johnny
I'd love for the party to become conservative. If it does I'll be extremely happy.
In the mean time.....the totalitarian left is swallowing and destroying this country in record time.
Welcome to the new reality.
The Speaker of the house is going to push Amnesty after the primaries are over.
/johnny
You may not be.
I the mean time, nothing you're doing or saying is stopping the totalitarian left. Not. One. Thing.
/sharkie
I am doing my part to make a dent in the liberal republicans, though. Dewhurst got the boot. I spent 4 years on the ground and on the phones trying to get him completely out of politics.
Rove's establishment candidate got his ass handed to him. Now he won't be able to play footsies with the Dems in the Texas Senate, and block conservative legislation.
So maybe I am helping to slow down the totalitarian left, by getting rid of their republican allies, at least in Texas.
/johnny
Exactly
We can fight the left in the GOP first, it’s a sound strategy
Amen, JRandom.
Part of Dr. Carson's point, which many here jumped on and went nuts over, is that when we get that less-than-perfect candidate, we do ourselves no favors by eschewing said candidate and ensuring an Obama a second term. He was tellig us that when the dice have been rolled, we need to get a taste of reality and do what's best vs. allowing the worst to get a better toe hold.
Let's hope you aren't playing the hare to the tortoise - we keep letting them get a bigger and bigger stronghold and many seem to think the lead can never get too big to be overcome. We are already under 24/7 surveillance, the gov't is arming many "administrative" agencies to the teeth, the guy in office not only allows that the homosexual agenda/abortion/illegals are Ok with him, he and his are in active mode to push them so far up our butts that there may not be a surgeon around with the skills to remove them. How in the hell is that better than a tepid conservative?
That you stop there and don't try to prevent the REAL enemy, the fully totalitarian leftist machine from continuing to win is profoundly disturbing.
What happens is that good candidates get stomped on and then those that hate us demand our vote, my answer is no.
And that's what the GOP wants me to vote for.
Are you saying that I should vote for a pro-abortion gun grabber just because he won the republican nomination?
/johnny
/johnny
Tactically to only go against the squishes, yet not fight against the far greater threat that the national democrat totalitarian left machine embodies is self defeating.
To not understand the difference between fighting genuine full throated Marxist evil and a squishy RINO is silly.
That is the platform of the totalitarian left.
I will not vote for a candidate that supports the leftist agenda.
Why can't your party put up candidates that are in accord with the party platform?
/johnny
Also, the idea that the GOPE "installed" Romney behind your back, rather than he actually went through the process and won the nomination is as filled with victimology as the stupid NAACP. He won. I didn't like it, but he won. It's no more "my party" than "your party", we simply lost because our tactics were bad and we didn't have a good candidate.
I saw Breitbart at a conservative conference three weeks before he died. It was during the primaries when Newt was ascendant. His take then was the correct one IMHO: "Fight like hell for whichever candidate you want to represent the party, but whatever you do, unite around the winner or you'll be responsible for the evil that this administration will continue. This administration and their people are the height of evil, far greater than anything we've encountered in the past, and we have to take them out. It's paramount to unite."
Now, that was hard for me to swallow when Romney won, but Breitbart was correct, I knew it, everyone should have known it.
These people are not just the greater of two evils, they're off the charts in evil, so much greater than the dumbass GOPE squishy go alongs to get alongs it's not even close.
I'm glad you're working against the squishes in the proper time, but ignoring the full bore Marxist American hating party and allowing them to reign in power has to be one of the dumbest things I've heard.
Gnats. Camels.
Say it clearly.
/johnny
/johnny
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