[Kevmo]

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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821435/posts?page=6245#6245
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Rudy Giuliani flunks some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.

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[mad_as_he$$]

Good example.

[Cyber Liberty]

Heh. All you have to do is get a bunch of folks willing to say, “My issue is SMALL! Please make ME one of the small ones you use to fill you box!”

Good luck with that.

[TheThinker]

Here's the thing though, that comprimising on good principles has brought America to the precipice of ruin. Even as resilient as America may be, it cannot continue as a vehicle for human liberty if it it's leaders steer it in a direction that wholly contradicts reality.

America must stop spending and that means cutting social programs which will piss off liberal and moderate Republicans to some degree. America must control its borders which will piss off more socially liberal Republicans.

It's time for conservatives to teach the others in the tent what must be done instead of compromising in lieu of an economic and demographic timebomb that's about to go off.