Even Reagan did some non conservative stuff but the majority of his actions were conservative and may be if we read his history it is very likely that we will find out that he campaigned and backed Republicans who were considered RINOS and were elected or ran in parts of the country that were not conservative.
The last group of RINO supporters who started running down Ronald Reagan in some sick misguided effort to bolster their favorite RINO are no longer FReepers!
JVeritas, I believe you make some decent points as far as they go.
You state (at least I believe you did, perhaps someone else did), that we cannot expect to see Conservatism triumph these days because things have changed. I couldn’t agree more with that concept.
Let’s think about that another way though.
We have as a nation drifted so far left, that we dare not go any further. As far as I am concerned, going further left is out of the question. Hence, RINOs are completely unacceptable.
Right now we have less than half the Navy we had under Reagan. Out nuclear stockpile is being dismantled. Our old allies are being shunned. Our economy is in a worse situation than when he came into office. And now I am being asked to vote for people who should be registered as Democrats.
Does that really sound like a winning strategy to you?
Look, if we’re going down, I want to go down with guns blazing, not with my hat in hand begging voters to support Democrats in my own party.
I understand where you’re coming from, and this isn’t meant to disparage you at all. I just can’t back what you want me to. We see it differently. I still think you’re a good person and I’m not unhappy with you at all.
Take care.