[The Pack Knight]

When you have a candidate that does not share any of your principles and you vote for them, you have given up all your principles and have rendered yourself voteless. Once people are browbeaten to vote for a person based on unproven logic, that we just want to win, you can never go back.

Some people seem to forget that the modern conservative movement was begun with an election Republicans lost, that being 1964.

Conversely, the historical Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, and the way Republicans governed afterwards, led to the situation we have today, where it's going to be very hard to convince the electorate that Republicans, if elected, will follow their traditional limited government principles in the future.

There's simply no logic to the argument that electing a Republican, any Republican, is the only way to further the conservative movement.

[dforest]

There's simply no logic to the argument that electing a Republican, any Republican, is the only way to further the conservative movement.

I am in total agreement with you and you said it better than me