There is a place for principle.
But it doesn't belong in the voting booth if it leads to self-destructive voting. The voting booth is a place to cast a vote coldly calculated to advance a principled agenda as best as possible under the circumstances. It is not a place to throw a principled temper tantrum that leaves you feeling better about yourself but is really just pissing in the wind.
The Founding Fathers would be ashamed of you, sir. Lack of principles is why we’re in the mess we’re in today.
It would be interesting to know, but probably impossible to find out just how many of these “principled” patriots actually live in and vote in Kentucky. Not enough to effect the outcome of the Senate race I’m betting.
But it doesn’t belong in the voting booth if it leads to self-destructive voting. The voting booth is a place to cast a vote coldly calculated to advance a principled agenda as best as possible under the circumstances. It is not a place to throw a principled temper tantrum that leaves you feeling better about yourself but is really just pissing in the wind.
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Well said, cynwoody, well said. Don’t let these folks beat you down.
Converting the Senate to one led by Ted Cruz and dominated by the Tea Party is not going to happen in one election cycle. Voting to install yet another Marxist Democrat for six long years that will, in all probability, grow to twelve or eighteen is simply slow suicide for our cause.
The idea that in six years we will see a Tea Party candidate sweeping an incumbent Democrat out of office is a fantasy. The most likely outcome is the Democrat wins against yet another weak GOPe candidate. No thanks.