Vote defensively (for the candidate to the least damage) in the general.
IF you want to win a war, first you have to win some battles. You don't win battles by sitting out...
I consider yours to be the most Reaganesque post of the last hundred or so in this ongoing argument.
I would only add that as a long-term strategy, the right-conservative base must individually and collectively begin flooding the entry level ranks of the Republican party machinery, so as to eventually replace the RINOs now running it, as well as those who are in elected office.
Thank you. Reagan was a man of reason; unfortunately a lot of this thread is about emotion and vengeance, the very things that were the antithesis of Reaganism!
I would only add that as a long-term strategy, the right-conservative base must individually and collectively begin flooding the entry level ranks of the Republican party machinery, so as to eventually replace the RINOs now running it, as well as those who are in elected office.
I fully agree; of course, many here are proud to point out they will never work with, in, or support the Republican party until it gets rid of its RINOs and becomes conservative.
If you're not a Republican, then how can you define what is a RINO? If you're not working in or for the party, then how can you reasonably expect it to even realize you exist? And if you cannot voice your own specific examples of what is a conservative position and what isn't, how can you help the party become more conservative?
There's a lot of red meat being thrown about in this thread, and it's gotten conservatism nowhere; in fact, it may have slid back as we have abandoned logic and reason for emotion and rabble-rousing.
Reagan and Buckley would be, I posit, ashamed of this thread...
Thank you, thank you, thank you.