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“If my candidate doesnâ€™t win the nomination, I will require lots of tequilla to pull the lever for the nominee.”

Right there, in one sentence, is the reason why Republicans in a center-right nation lose national elections. We are, as a group, idealists who simply can’t stand someone that we don’t believe is perfect. However, politics isn’t about getting every single thing that you want. It is about compromise, whether anybody likes it or not. Nobody, I repeat, nobody gets everything that they want. By the way, the vast majority of Democratic politicians and voters understand this, and they pull together to accomplish their goals. I admire their common sense in doing so, even as I cringe at the results that they want and achieve.

Remember that Reagan said words to the effect that if you get 70% of what you want in politics, you should take it and run away. General George S. Patton, Jr. said that the perfect is the enemy of the good. What both of these men of vast and diverse experience in human affairs were saying is that you have to take the best that is available at any given moment, rather than waiting for some perfect deal, plan or person that will likely never show up and, thereby, forsake the “merely” good alternative the you just had in you hands. There is no such thing as a perfect politician, just as there is no such thing as a perfect human being.

This is probably the most critical election since 1860. If it is not that important, it is certainly the most important election that anybody who visits this website will ever see in their lifetime. If any Democrat gets elected, you can kiss the entire judiciary branch of government goodbye for the rest of our lives. With that, will come a never-ending succession of decisions against the Constitution that will cement Democratic majority rule until they finally succeed in destroying this country. Furthermore, a Democratic president for 4 or 8 more years will dramatically increase the likelihood that we will be victimized by a Pearl Harbor type of attack, this time with nuclear weapons. The relatively minor differences, both personal and ideological, between the Republican candidates pale in comparison to the ocean of difference between all of them as a group and the Democrats. We need to stop our petty bickering, and pull together for the sake of this nation. Again, there is no perfect candidate, but any of the Republicans, ANY of them, will be leagues better than any Democrat.