‘Conservatives have paid a price for being inattentive to candidate recruitment and what’s actually going on at the county committee level. In effect, we allowed the unchecked rise of machine operators like Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and John Doolittle who sacrificed conservative principle for back-scratching enrichment.’
Speak for yourself in this regard, kristinn. Many of us here in Ohio for example, rebelled last year against the GOP Country Club Republicans, and were trashed in this and a couple of other conservative forums for doing so.
I was told repeatedly I had to support the Ohio GOP, even though it was corrupt from top to bottom ‘because Nancy Pelosi will become Speaker of the House! Harry Reid will become Senate Majority Leader!’ by straight ticket Republicans.
I’ve often asked in this forum, and others ‘when is it okay to fire a Republican’...and the overwhelming majority of the time the answer was ‘in the primaries’....(eyes rolling).
Some of us did in fact ‘act’...and we’re flamed for doing so here at FR.
What a shame you persist in this delusion that you own your own vote and that you actually are voting for the person you cast your ballot for.