"So for all those folks who voted for Perot "to send a message", ask yourself if 8 years of Clinton damage to the country was worth that message."
Yes, it absolutely was worth it.
The Republican Party is not a bunch of free agents who have to be kept in power lest the Devil devour the land. A lot good got done on Clinton's watch, thanks the the Republican Congress, which happened because of Clintonian excess. NAFTA got signed, welfare reform was passed, we ran a large surplus and retired a lot of debt.
Letting George H W Bush win the election after he flat out abandoned the conservatives on taxes, and put Souter on the bench, would have been a disgrace.
Republicans would desperately love it if conservatives were like Blacks - committed bloc voters who think the world ends if the other party wins. But they are not. And if the GOP won't give the conservatives what they require, then the GOP needs to lose elections and experience the agony of having Democrats run roughshod over them for a few years. That tends to focus the mind and keep the politicians, who are otherwise inclined to be unprincipled horse-traders, more principled.
NAFTA got signed, welfare reform was passed, we ran a large surplus and retired a lot of debt.
In fact these issues are hardly the rallying cries I read from my fellow conservatives on this site.
In my opinion, the Clinton years were a stain on history and not "worth it". But if that is how you feel, why play word gams, just vote for another Democrat to try and do whatever it is you hope to recreate from the 90s.