Are we talking about the same post?
I'll risk reposting it and see what happens:
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Anyone who is so obtuse or unsophisticated to not understand that without electoral success and political office, principles and ideologies cannot be protected, won and codified, aren't worth the time of day. Electoral success necessitaties a consensus and the accomodations and compromises that entails.
People who have no desire to change their world, no will to work within the parameters of a real political landscape, no intent to address their grievences or pursue their principles in serious ways need to be kicked to the curb wit' a quickness.
A principled vote for an unelectable Tom McClintock, who could never deliver a pro-life, anti-gay and immigration satisfaction from the Sacramento Governor office even if elected - is not to be respected or admired or understood in any way. It's nothing but a selfish fashion statement.
"Conservative" still has a distinct political and ideological meaning in the world outside Free Republic, but it has been mangled beyond recognition within the forum. When Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Dana Rohrbacher, Duke Cunningham, Chris Cox, Sean Hannity, Bill Thomas, Bill Simon and Duncan Hunter are no longer considered "real conservatives" by mutants here ... I don't want to be a "real conservative".
The California GOP is now Arnold's party. The sweet little power and financial motherlode the unappeasables enjoyed and maintained through their perennial LOSING is hitherto TERMINATED.
Californians got Gray Davis, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Bill Lockyear and Socialist Democrat rule because the California GOP was run by hacks who deemed any Republican capable of statewide election automatically unfit and not Conservative enough to support.
That's the angst here. The McClintock gang are losing their franchise, and all the power and money that goes with it.
189 posted on 09/30/2003 8:19 PM PDT by ArneFufkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/992536/posts?page=189#189I see no reason why this post should have been pulled.
Its a brilliant post, shouldn't have been pulled by anyone who really is not afraid of honest debate.
There are realists in California, thank God, they realize that Arnold can and will win, and that Tom will not, not now, not ever, not ever statewide. But they are willing to be lemmings and all leap off the cliff on their self styled principals and risk the greater evil to run their state.
I just don't understand fundamentalist thought, not in California, the USA, Iraq, etc.