Posted on 06/04/2015 9:05:02 PM PDT by blueyon
Grandma always said everyone has a purpose. For some, it’s to be an unwitting cat’s toy. You know the kind that has a fuzzy ball on the end of a spring that the cat can bat back and forth at it’s leisure? ;)
It’s simple logic. Who votes for people like Bhoner, Romney and Mitch? They can’t win without the numbers conservatives give them. Right here on FR many self professed ‘conservative’ spout off with liberal ideas like ‘lesser evil’ and ‘no matter what’. Neither of those phrases, by definition is conservative. They are two very liberal concepts. Namely the idea that evil, actual evil is just perfectly OK if the circumstance benefits the speaker and that anything goes.
Can you find the conservatism in those ideas? Raping a child on TV if it ment stopping the dath of two would be a lesser evil. Would you do the honors? Yes? No? It’s a lesser evil so why is that hypothetical an unacceptable lesser evil but electing a guy that personally funds sticking a vacuum probe into a baby’s skull and sucking it’s brais out so you can get a better price on your house an acceptable lesser evil?
Thats what many did exactly. And as a result, they ended up moving the GOP left at a rapid pace. It wasn’t Ferals in Baltamore that did it. It wasn’t homos in the Bay that did it. It was ‘conservatives whose votes showed the GOP they yes, most of the base would in fact, vote for evil.
Then, many not only embraced the new normal, they went out and did it again with Mitch and Jonbon. And many that could not vote for them, being out of state, sat right here on FR screaming demands that they be elected in the face of them telling the base that if elected, they would work WITH Obama. Not oppose him. WORK WITH...WITH...Obama.
So who do you suppose is responsible for the decline in America? Is it people like me that fight and vote FOR conservatism or is it people like you that fight and vote FOR the liberalism that is shown daily to destroy it? Remember, it’s not Democrats that are to blame for the GOP going left. It’s you and those like you that back liberalism in the GOP.
I think the left has good lessons for us in terms of how to claw our way back. They were willing to suck it up and be incremental as they built up their siegeworks against the founding culture. By not being brittle purists they won themselves the ability to run purer and purer candidates over time. That's why we now have Barack Obama. We should not lose sight of our principles but we should be willing to be shrewd. If advancing our cause means playing impure chess instead of purist checkers, we should do it. “Lesser evil” is a tactical concept, not an ideological one.
Dear Congress,You are my bitch.Love,The IRS
So you’re losing the argument to a cat’s toy?
No, It’s simply not worth going over dead horses with true believers. But if thinking you win makes you haZ a happy, be my guest. The rest of us know the reality of the discussion.
Okay, well enjoy your noisy minority status on the forum. Most of us disagree with your purist defeatism.
Probably why so many agree with me. Many of the people I fought with 2 years ago now are in near lockstep with my positions. I see common core educated your perceptions as well as your politics.
Yeah man. You’re a force to be reckoned with and stuff. Nothing attacts people like defeatist gloomerism.
Your words. Not mine.
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