Pragmatism is a deadly disease the eats away at a true believers freedom!
Very true. Hindsight being 2020, when we voted for McCain because of Palin (those who did) we ended up sealing our fate. We were terrified of what Obama would do, so ve voted to stop that.
And because of our votes, we basically told the GOP that they could continue running RINO/libs and we’d play along of the price was right. Had McCain lost in a landslide, this election ‘could’ have resulted in a truly conservative candidate. At the vary least, a more conservative one than McCain.
I mean just look at the track record. The GOP faught tooth and nail to stop Ronaldus Magnus and has not run a truly conservative candidate since. Ans since bush the liberalism in the GOP has escalated by orders of magnitude...because we keep voting for that.
So lets say Romney pulls it off. Imagine what the GOP will run next. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
I voted for McClintock in the recall, but I did vote for Schwartzenegger over Angelides for his reelection.
It might be an interesting thought exercise to imagine what California might be like if Gray Davis had never been recalled. It's like people suggesting that an Obama second term would be somehow acceptable, after looking back at in another 9 years.
I suspect he would have ended up like Blagojevich, had Davis not been recalled.
-PJ