tanknetter wrote:
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I’m thinking that, like having a bad manager, we might have to (will have to, in many cases) hold our noses, pick the GOPe up and carry it over the finish line. For our own short-term self preservation.
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But aren’t we all completely sick and tired of having to keep doing this? We’ve been holding our noses at the ballot box for years now and where has it gotten us???
It’s gotten us Ted Cruz. And Mike Lee. And Rand Paul
Ronald Reagan really liked the saying that a rising tide raises all boats. He was speaking economically, but it applies politically as well.
I may not like Mitch McConnell, or Boehner, or Lindsay Graham or John McCain. But I DO like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Trey Gowdy and even Rand Paul (who is wrong on enough issues to deny him my GOP presidential primary vote, but still right on enough that I like him as a Senator). And I want their boats to rise.
And I understand that their boats will only rise with a rising tide. Which means supporting folks I don’t like, abhor even. Mitch McConnell may see me as an enemy that needs to be crushed, but I look back see him, ruthlessly, as a political necessity so that the people I support (Cruz, Lee, even Rand Paul) can make it up the ladder into positions of tangible power.