That is a very pragmatic and useful philosophy.
Yep. I fear that President Reagan would be run out of FR by many on this thread because he was not ideologically pure enough, and he dared to work with the other side... Compromise seems to be a dirty word around here!
At the risk of repeating myself on this gigantic thread it is very difficult to separate believing in Conservative principles and debating the merits of any particular partisan candidate. The principles are pure and the human beings are not. The human beings can *only* be judged in the context of a specific election and the goals of the Conservative movement.
It is impossible, IMO, to construct some generic Ideal Candidate and win the election by using that model to eliminate voting for the actual humans in the real race. The person you vote for has to be chosen based on the overall strategy and tactics needed to win the war, even at risk of losing individual battles.
Of course since this is a recipe for winning then both sides of the argument can use the same strategy and the partisan arguments go around and around and around....
This is actually an argument for keeping the site more Conservative specific since it would reduce the pointless partisan arguments themselves. If we agree in general on Conservative principles then we can spend more time on strategy and tactics and less on calling each other names.
Why do you, and others on this thread, insist on smacking us in the face with that red herring? Reagan was a man. He was not perfect, but when he made a mistake, like he did with amnesty, he admitted his mistake. You cannot even begin to compare Reagan with anything we are facing now, and asking us if we would vote for him now suggests that the landscape of politics is the same now as it was then. It isn’t. We are in far greater danger from madmen now than we ever were under Reagan.
Our enemies reside in the white tent now. They control all government functions from top to bottom. They have infiltrated the republican party and we need them to be GONE.
That is the goal. We will fight this battle as hard as we can, and getting rid of the trash and the party-firsters is only the beginning.