You build nothing with the guy who threatens to take his ball and go home EVERY time he fails to get his way. I for one am sick of begging these people to do what they should.
Ever occur to you that some number of folks might get a little ornery at being told to shut up and vote for whomever they're told to vote?
Most of them are new comers to the movement (to me since I started at 16 years old in '66) and are faint of heart.
Look, not everyone is going to fall into lockstep, or share some vision of "the movement."
The American character will usually reject demands that it should. There's a long, proud tradition in this country of telling the arrogant and powerful to pound sand. That tradition isn't going away (God forbid it ever does), so the arrogant need to get over the delusion that power and votes are their birthrights.
You can't herd cats with a bludgeon.
You misunderstand. The only thing I'm saying people should do is vote. Now you may think that staying home is wise but I will continue to think it's stupid.
BTW I come from a long line of curmudgeons who do not care for government nor being told what to do. This may account for my family being in so many revolutions. We fought for the South, for Texas, for the USA, against the Brits in Canada, against the king in France .....
This grows unintentionally funny.
The mantra of certain FReepers, to remain nameless, in the past has been "It's all about the Supreme Court." In other words, we support fairly squishy GOP candidates, and a moderate presidential candidate, because we will be repaid with conservative Supreme Court nominations, which will at last change the direction of the country.
So, when we actually get to the point where we might be seeing some nominations, we're told to look the other way while a liberal is nominated for Chief Justice.
OK...so we're supposed to give the GOP a pass on everything?
There's nothing that we should raise a stink aobut?
Remind me again why we're bothering to vote, won't you? :-)
I'm certainly willing to keep my mouth shut on a lot of issues for the greater good. But, for crying out loud...there has to be something conservatives get out of this deal. Is the request for a pro-life Chief Justice to replace the current pro-life Chief Justice really all that much to ask for?