The problem is that everyone decries pols that spend eternity in office as the problem and decries pols who lie to retain their power as the problem and decry pols that support Bhoners various cave ins as the problem, then pretend the guy that is all those things is just A OK.
I have yet to see a logical argument from a single RINO excuser why it is that situational ethics is/are OK. Every time it becomes a choice of standing behind the words they spout every day on conservative sites or miraculously finding that one very extra super unique excuse to allow another RINO vote, they find it with no sense of shame or embarrassment for the hypocracy.
Well, I hope I’m not guilty of “situational ethics.” I generally don’t think so. I’ve really grown to have an innate distrust of the GOP, after being a lifelong GOP voter. Takes a lot of time and effort to really sift through and gauge which candidates I’m willing to give my vote to. The rancid nature of the opponent is rarely if ever a factor.
I refused to give my vote to Romney, the first GOP-er I withheld my vote from, for two prime reasons... because he helped facilitate homo-marriage in his own state as governor, and because of the putrid advisors he surrounded himself with (Stevens, Madden, etc.), who repeatedly trashed, backstabbed and undermined Palin and the tea party, to their donor class and their lib buddies in the media. Romney and his ilk can just go burn in hell. Not a day goes by in which I’m not glad I didn’t sell my soul by voting for that damnable scumbag.
Pat Roberts? I dunno. Part of the ossified political class that desperately needs to be dumped. But has he really crossed those lines with me, that Romney did? Like the vast majority of corrupt, GOP-E beltway elites? I’m not entirely sure, but I don’t think so. Would a vote for Roberts continue to empower the corrupt Boehner/McConnell types in the leadership roles? Or would a Roberts defeat hurt them? Or would it really matter, as the GOP leadership will remain just as loathesome as they now are? Maybe those matters are moot, and it will just be good to have another breathing body in the Senate who is anti-amnesty and an apparently reliable social conservative? Lot of variables to weigh. And luckily, since I’m not a Kansan, I don’t really have to weigh them. From afar, I’d probably lean towards voting for him.