Me? I don’t see the need to vote for a Grand New Party if the Grand Old Party decides Liberalism is the wave of the future. That’s not revenge, that’s refusing to aid and abet a Liberal coup of the GOP.
If Rudy911 wins the GOP nod, then the war is pointless anymore, because the terrorists have won. The terrorists will have succeeded in turning one half of the body politic in this country into a strictly anti-terrorism party with no resemblance to the principles of its expressed platform. Fear will be the only driving factor of the entire party, and I will have no part of it. At that point, the war really is over, and we have lost - regardless of how many battles we can keep fighting for another Presidential term. They will have altered our way of life so drastically that fear of terrorism will be the expressed driving force behind every move we make as voters and as politicians. They might as well celebrate the Great Satan’s defeat on the streets of Damascus at that point, because they’ve won and we’ve lost, period. Their way of living will remain unaltered despite our best efforts, and our way of living will be so drastically altered as to bear no resemblance to the Shining City on a Hill.
Before 9/11, Rudy911 was a joke no Republican would ever take seriously. Have the terrorist really won so resounding a victory that he could be crowned king based on his mere presence in NYC during the attacks? Have they so altered the GOP that the traditional coalition now means absolutely nothing anymore, and only war matters - only war and nothing else?
I'll have no part of a Grand New Party, none. I will not help terrorist change the party and the country into a body that gives them exactly what they seek: a full compromise of our values for the World to see, and the undivided spotlight to prove that they have changed our culture and our way of life forever.
I'll not surrender my values to terrorism, even if the Democrats win one damn election because I won't give the terrorists what they want - a sellout of my values and principles at the end of a sword. The alternative is that the terrorists win the war, though Rudy911 fights some more battles, and the Liberals win the party and the country for generations to come.
No thanks, I'll keep fighting on as many fronts as needed.