Are we to abandon principle for the sake of political victory? I believe this is what has gotten us to the point that we are at. Lessor of two evils and all that. Is power all that matters?
Do not you, that would support someone that does not have morals or uphold the very foundations of Liberty just to have political power, not see that we are in the beginnings of the 2nd American Revolution? Good Lord, we are truly lost, even before the first real battles have been fought.
Principles, my friends, principles. Political power is no the only way. There are others. The power of numbers and convitions is a good start……….
Well, there’s two ways to look at this.
We can be the Party of Principle and let the Democrats continue to have majorities in both houses of Congress or we can accept a few imperfect senators and congressmen so, at least, we have better control of what is happening in Washington.
I agree, that you can compromise too far and become “Democrat Lite” but you can also be too rigid and doom yourself to irrelevancy which is the position we are in now.
A mere five years ago, we had both houses and the White House. That was the time to be the Party of Principle and demonstrate that Republicans could be fiscally conservative and morally strong. Instead, we blew it because we spent like Democrats and didn’t answer the non-stop barrage of attacks against us by the media and the Left.
So, now we’re the party on the outs and, if we want to not be on the outs, we have to allow for some (not all) people who are not ideologically pure in order to win some areas that lean liberal.
That’s the hand we’re dealt. If you want to be ideologically pure and politically powerless, you can turn us into the Libertarian or Constitution parties. Or you can build the sort of majorities that can prevent an Obama-style lurch to socialism. It’s your call.