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“I believe the Democrat candidate will win the election because the Demcrats are happier with their candidates”

If that’s the case, and I don’t agree it is either your assertion that the Dems. will win or that they’re happier with their candidates, then it’s time for our side to get happy and fast, or they’re going to be getting a big dose of unhappy when an extremist Hillary White House and an extremist Democratic Congress are busy rubber stamping one another’s far left wing nuttery.

James Dobson might consider that as he throws around a lot of threats of running 3rd party alternatives he knows he’ll never have the money or votes to get into the White House, but who would be the Democrats’ fondest wish in ensuring the GOP/conservative vote is split which will acrue to Hillary’s benefit. And how many conservative judges will Dobson be getting then, and how will his goal of advancing the ball on an eventual abortion ban be served by that? If anything, it will be set back by a half century or more.

We need to stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good in our voting decisions and get over our childish fantasies of there being another Reagan out there who were just being denied. No one can seem to name who this mythical candidate is. And the constant comparisons and demands for a Reagan and dammit I’m just not going to be happy without one is pure foolishness. A guy like Reagan comes along maybe once every generation. So let’s get over the fact we don’t have the incarnation of Reagan or even a perfect candidate who agrees with everything we believe in 1000% and get out and work to get the GOP candidate, whoever that is, into the White House before we get a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress giving us 1000% of what we don’t agree with.

Time for conservatives to grow up and stop stamping their feet when they don’t get everything perfectly their way. We’re acting like petulant children, not smart, thoughtful, pragmatic and wise adults who realize in life sometimes you have to compromise on a few things to get a lot of other things you do want and prevent a lot of things you don’t, i.e. Democrats having total control over the government including having total control, and no checks or balances, over the judicial nominating process. How happy will these currently unhappy conservatives be then?

And maybe when you’re pragmatic, put away absolutism and stop insisting on having everything your way and accept less than a full plate realizing you can’t always have your way in a large and diverse organization like a political party, maybe in the end you’ll just be surprised at how much you are receiving and how filled up you really are and you’ll be pleasantly surprised, instead of always expecting the worst when you have to compromise just a little.

What percent of what I want should I “settle” for? I’ll put up some numbers by way of example.

Hillary 0

Giuliani 10 (fought tax cuts, anti-life, gay rights, anti-2nd...)

McCain 30 (but he is plain crazy.)

Romney 30 (I don’t believe he has changed his positions from when he campaigned in MA.)

Huckabee 35 (pro-tax, pro-illegal immmigration, nanny stater)

Thompson 90 (CFR - he apologized for being wrong about it. Impeachment - he voted for/against based upon the legal definitions and the evidence, not on the article that most agreed had the best chance of convicting.)

Hunter 90 (I just cannot give him 100 until he shows more appeal.)

Why should I vote for the under 50% candidates and weaken the party?

"And maybe when you’re pragmatic, put away absolutism and stop insisting on having everything your way and accept less than a full plate realizing you can’t always have your way in a large and diverse organization like a political party, maybe in the end you’ll just be surprised at how much you are receiving and how filled up you really are and you’ll be pleasantly surprised, instead of always expecting the worst when you have to compromise just a little."

I'm truly amazed that there are still people trumpeting the lesser of two evils mantra, at this point in time. The only explanation I can come up with for that is that either we (you) don't think the condition of our government and country is that bad... or we have been conditioned by those in power to keep letting that line go lower and lower.

We have sunk so low that now we're at the point now where many will probably get behind the "Republican candidate" who is a pro-choice, pro gay marriage, gun-control supporting, open borders globalist... why? Because he has an (R) by his name!!! And what's the mantra again? Ah yes, he's the lesser of two evils! Woohooo!

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