Do you remember how Carter helped bring Reagan?
If we vote for phony conservatives, we put on display a dishonest representation of out philosophy...and it harms the brand.
When a true liberal is in office, their policies and fallacies are on display for all to see.
When a liberal in conservative clothing is in office, their liberal polices and fallacies are wrongly attributed to conservatives.
When a true liberal is in office, their policies and fallacies are on display for all to see.
When a liberal in conservative clothing is in office, their liberal polices and fallacies are wrongly attributed to conservatives.
I guess I'm more of a realist. I realize that the media is in the bag for liberals/socialists/communists. There will never be an honest national dialog about conservatism, as long as the media remains in the bag. What we really need, is for rich conservatives to buy NBC, ABC and CBS, and change the narrative. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Can you imagine how pitifully small the democratic party would be if conservatives had equal representation in the school system and the media? Without those changes, we will not get another hardcore conservative elected. By not supporting the republican candidate in the general election, regardless of the primary results, we have elected Clinton twice and Obama twice.
Under Obama, the EPA has run amuck, the IRS has run roughshod over our citizens, the state department is littered with muslims who support the muslim brotherhood, al quaeda and ISIS, and judgeships have been given to self-proclaimed socialists. Even the supreme court is being filled with incompetent liberal pieces of crap (Kagan and Sotomayor). So while some people want to trash the republican candidate in the general election if they aren't conservative enough for them, the factual result of not supporting the republican candidate, most recently, is President Obama.
At least under Bush, barely a bastion of hardcore conservatism, fired all the federal prosecutors because they would do their jobs. Chaney helped clean up the state department. Militarily, we invested in our forces and technology. Additional regulatory strangleholds on our economy were kept to a minimum, and existing ones were repealed. Tax rates were reduced. The death tax threshold was hiked up tremendously. Capital gains were reduced. God knows how W would have done if he didn't have to deal with the aftermath of 9/11, because Clinton failed to deal with the radicals when the towers were bombed in 1993, the USS Cole, TWA Flight 800, etc.
The bottom line is, although not as hardcore conservative ass you and I would like, I would much rather have another W, than throw my vote away for a third party that has no chance of winning, and in the process, allowing Hillary or Warren to be president for the next 8 years. How do you think New Yorkers are thinking now, about not showing up to the polls when it elected its last mayor? Just curious.
Lets do what we can during the primaries, but lets not throw away the general election just because we didn't get our favorite candidate.