Would you vote for Reagan? How am I doing anything to move the country to the left? I’ll do anything to stop them. YOU are the one who is willing to let the country go to the left because you mistakingly believe that unless a candidate suits you 100%, it is morally superior to allow the extremely liberal RAT win but then YOU accuse ME of moving the country to the left. Wake up. It is YOU who will be moving the country to the left.
Tell me, dear, when RINOs like Snowe, Collins, etc. jump on board Obamacare, will that be ok with you? Or will you continue to beat the drum that an (R) is better than nothing?
Why do you think McCain lost? Why do you think Scozzafava lost? Sorry, hon, but we are in the fix we are today because of desperate fear mongering by you and your RINO loving friends.
BRAVO! BRAVO! I posted this earlier, but it needs to be posted again:
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it."Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Like you, Great Grandma, I'll take an 80% conservative McCain with a smile and joy over a 0% like Obama. And it doesn't mean we settle for McCain, as so many here seem to think you imply; it means you take the victories you can get - whether small or large - and keep working for more victories.
You NEVER reject a win because it's not by a large enough margin. That simply creates defeat, and in the game of politics, defeat is too terrible a price for the Nation to pay. Witness the current Administration's assault on these United States...
I only wish more in this thread had your sensibility, grandma! :)