“...but McConnell’s threat to crush the tea party is not a 1% difference of opinion... it was a show stopper.”
That is hideous. It’s most definitely a reason to primary him at every opportunity, to undermine him between elections, to disfavor him AND the GOP reg. contributions, AND ....
We should tell senators [after the election] that there will be no more donations for any senator who fails to publicly criticize that ‘Tea Party Hating Creep’. [First we would need widespread support for the idea before carrying it out.] It would be easier to convince republicans to do that than to convince them to let a demon-rat win his senate seat. And who knows? Republicans sometimes even buckle to public pressure. Maybe McConnell will seek to mend fences if such a movement gets going.
But anyone opposed to partial birth abortion isn’t all bad. I bet he’s also opposed to redefining marriage, right? I bet he criticizes government waste sometimes. Bad, yes, but not a monster.
1 Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers...
I read something similar in the Bible. [Fuzzy memory — proverbs?] “Do not walk, stand, and sit with evil.”
It used to confuse me because there seems to be so many contradictions to that message.
Paul also said not to worship your pagan master with your eyes. That is how the scriptures are in harmony. We don’t need to worship a Ruling Class republican if we simply vote for him. [And few of my bosses were exactly ‘members of the choir’. Should I have refused to work for them?]
Abraham was friendly with the heathen self-worshiping Pharoh and even claimed that he was a brother of his wife to prevent getting beheaded. David was ‘friendly’ with the Philistines while acting as a fifth columnist in Philistine lands. Paul essentially said to get along with pagans in power. Jesus said to pay taxes to pagan Rome [he paid out of a fish’s mouth].
The history of the Bible teems with sordid compromises and worse.
“The first century Christians did not get to chose their government, but we can chose who we vote for.”
We especially get to choose during the primary. After that, the choices are down to three: one, the other, or neither.
*** To vote for neither [or protest vote] is to bury your talent.
That’s the reality. And if Abraham can be cordial with the Pharoh, a Christian can vote for the ‘lesser evil’.
Choosing not to vote in a specific race is not “Wasting your talent”. An undervote is an important way to communicate you were not willing to support any of those choices.
As far as your do it after the “next election”... This election has little at stake while the next one is a presidential election.