I just got through reading the thread through to 363 and I'm amazed at some of the replies I've seen.
I've read comments people are willing to abandon their core personal principles for little more than political expediency and party loyalty.
They don't seem to realize that
they're part of the problem. They don't seem to realize that
their support of RINO candidates does more damage to this nation than withholding support and votes from a poor choice of presidential candidates.
To me it's pretty simple...people have got to stand firm and come to realize that @party over principle is going to bring about the ruination of both the GOP and this nation.
To me "party over principle" means that a person is asked to abandon their core principles merely to ensure that a Party candidate is elected to office. Usually a person has several core principles that they feel strongly about. I'm sure that you have more than one yourself.
So, to me, the question becomes which of your core principles are you going to abandon solely for the sake of Party advancement? And then a person has to ask themselves if they're ready, and willing, to abandon some of their core principles for the sake of the Party, will they abandon all of their core principles for the sake of the Party. Because as soon as you give in and abandon those principles there is a push at the next election for you to abandon even more of your principles because you did so the last time and the Party knows this. And eventually you have to look at yourself in the mirror and realize that you have no core principles any longer as you've abandoned them over time for nothing more than a short term political victory.
I simply can't sell my birthright (eventually all of my core principles) for a mess of pottage (short term political victory) else I damn my own soul.
I don’t want to hear $h1t about giving the election to Obama from the same SOBs who wanted us to get behind Crist, Castle, and Scozafava.
They had their chance to make common cause with the REAL Americans. Now let them eat what falls from the democrat’s table while we feast on their asses!