To: Dan in Wichita
We purists are willing to go down to 80% of what we want. How low is acceptable to you before we are no longer conservative at all?
To: Norm Lenhart; All
Just wanted to point out that about 200 posts in, not one GOP supporter, including the OP, will address the fact that the GOP promised Amnesty in exchange for gaining power this election.
To: Norm Lenhart
We purists are willing to go down to 80% of what we want. How low is acceptable to you before we are no longer conservative at all?
Norm, you have asked a very good question. You will always be a conservative as will I, but in the imperfect world of politics, sometimes it makes the most sense to vote for a semi-conservative in order to stop our Leftward drift and reverse course.
If you have two viable candidates for an office (and this will almost always be a Republican and a Democrat, none of this 1% third party stuff), one has to ask which of these two candidates will be with me more than the other?
The answer is usually quite clear. Even someone who is only 50% as conservative as me is much better than someone who is at 0%. To use worn out cliches, I hold my nose, and vote for the lesser of two evils. If my vote turns out to be for the winner, than that will blunt the Left, even if it is only a little.
Then in a couple of years, we work on getting more Ted Cruz like people into office. In the meantime, the Left has less power over us. That is incrementalism. I suggest that we on the Right have to use incrementalism to move this country away from the Marxist/godless abyss of the Left.
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