That is totally unreasonable. You are asking half the voters in the country to vote for liberal R’s no matter what.
No way.
Boehner and McConnell are our enemies. McConnell has even declared war on us and our favored candidates.
“purity test” “the perfect is the enemy of the good”
And all the other hackneyed expressions used by the fainthearted to rationalize truckling to Republicrats, and to justify compromise, selling short and settling for less than the best.
All these Chinese philosophers! “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” Confucius
OK.
(Apologies in advance to Sam Adams, paraphrased)
“From the day on which an accommodation takes place between the establishment GOP and conservatives, on any other terms than as independent, I shall date the ruin of this country.
A politic minister will study to lull us into security by granting us the full extent of our petitions. The warm sunshine of influence would melt down the virtue which the violence of the storm rendered more firm and unyielding.
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable.
When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.
Ye abandoned minions of an infatuated ministry, if peradventure any should yet remain among us, remember that countless patriots are numbered among the dead.
Contemplate your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices?
Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
Pull up your big girl pants. Not you GeronL.
All of you weak-kneed moderates