"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
-- Margaret Thatcher
“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”
That’s exactly what it is. I’ve used this example before on FR, but it applies. I spent years writing on landuse topics/off-road motorsports. Most of our problem was not Sierra the BLM or the EPA. It was our own people wanting ‘compromise’ with the enemy. So today, more than 10 years later, all the areas I was involved in are either closed or so restricted they may as well be.
It was ‘our’ side’s compromise that killed us. Common sense that when YOU compromise the basics, you cannot EVER get them back...you can only ‘compromise’ more of yourself.
Here, we have a choice. Compromise our opposition to abortion, ‘gay’ rights, Global warming/green BS and the rest of the CORE ELEMENTS that define who we are as conservatives, or stick to our beliefs.
Because regardless of all the reasons the compromisers give, it’s a simple fact that if we vote for a man who spports those things, WE support those things. We can lie to ourselves and others and scream “ON NO! i AM AGAINST ABORTION!!! OH NO!!! i DON’T WANT GAYS IN THE MILITARY AND MARRYING AND...!!!
But to even THINK much less publicly state we will willingly empower such a person, means that in reality, we have SUPPORTED that position. Period. End of subject. There is no way around truth. Even TRYING to lie their way out of it with excuses shows just how compromised in their morality they have become.
There is no alternative. Vote Romney, vote for all he supports. If it was one meaningless thing in an overall list of 100, you could say “no biggie.” But it’s 99 biggies.
I keep reading how ‘offended’ people are that Jim and others have taken a stand and said ‘no more’. We;ll, I’m offended that FR is still infested with people to which “God country” and the other things in the FR mission statement are some malleable item. Something that’s bendable like a branch in the wind.
These people either need to reevaluate their beliefs of find somewhere that better supports their situational ethics. Because JR has been made clear that their Vote Romney view is not welcome.