We have more influence with them than the Uber libs.
It is a matter of increments.
Yup You incremented more liberal into the GOP every time you abandoned principle for ‘winning’ for the sake of ‘Winning’.
Worked great. Thats the reality we live in. No way around it. You / we did not increment libeals out. We incremented more of them in and patted our backs for our pragmatism.
Yea team.
As I see it the increments are a ratchet: only going in one direction.
Take, for example, the NBC-qualification; the requirement has been damaged (Obama, McCain, and possibly Romney were put in place to weaken it). People here are getting all excited about Cruz who was born in Canada to a father who was not a US citizen until 2005 — I have concerns that he doesn't meet the NBC requirement — but people here are seeming ready to brush it off as just a technicality
. I'm sorry people, but if the Constitution is to mean anything, to be the law, it has to be followed especially when it is inconvenient.
To say otherwise is to condone the NSA's domestic espionage; after all, it's far more convenient to search and seize everyone's information than actually do investigation, get a warrant, and then get the incriminating item/info.
To say otherwise is to condone ignoring the illegal invasion; after all it's far more convenient to ignore the requirements of Art 4, sec 4 than to honor it.
To say otherwise is to condone the ever-expanding powers of the commerce clause; after all, it's far more convenient to simply declare that non-commerce can be regulated under the interstate commerce clause than it would be to dismantle a single piece of the War on Drugs while trying to keep the whole. (Those in power are disinclined to surrender it.)
In short, increments
only seem to work for eroding the constraints placed by the Constitution — I have never seen them strengthen the constraints placed upon the government by it.