I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment, but it comes back to this: ‘The question for me is what constitutes ‘good enough.’
If there’s nobody on the slate that is ‘good enough’ our options are pretty much limited: throw your own hat in the ring or stay home. I have a number of litmus issues that a candidate must support if they are to get my vote...but I also recognize that all other things being equal, I’m going to pick the candidate I believe has the broadest appeal so that he or she actually gets to represent me on those views.
Well, it was about a decade ago that I finally figured out what the plumb line should actually be. And since then I’ve done whatever I can to make sure there is someone on the ballot that I can in good conscience vote for. And if I can’t find such a person, yes, I have run myself, several times.
There was no way on God’s green earth that I was going to vote for John Judas McCain or the most liberal governor in the history of the republic, Willard Mitt Romney.
Some small fraction of the citizenry felt exactly the same way.
I’ll continue doing what I can to make sure they are represented.
While continuing to pray that the rest of America’s conservatives will eventually tire of being betrayed by unprincipled Republicans and come around.
Sure hope they don’t tarry too long. Not sure that we have much time left.