So! YOU. STILL. DON’T. GET. IT!
You purists want nothing less than complete lock step with whatever each of YOU individually define conservatism to be.
You would have us all goose step to your tune - even while the country literally burns and collapses down around you - just as long as you can hold up your fist in defiance and rage on of your “purity” during the meltdown.
The total destruction of EVERYTHING we ever were or could ever hope to be, is but a minor thing; for you will happily perish in the flames, and gladly be reduced to ashes, because you can shout from your graves that never did you deviate in the slightest from your dogma ... Let the irony of your indifference forever echo above the chard destruction ...
Let the epitaph be chiseled into the cold granite of your monolithic stupidity:
“Here lies Conservatism - His prideful cause perished with his country, but at least he never gave one inch!”
And you, oh purist, with your willing accomplices, made damned sure that neither could any other, less you beat them into submission with mockery and calumny.
In your arrogance of certainty, you forgot one very important axiom of life - a tree that never bends in the wind, snaps.
The game is not about electing the the most conservative candidate ... The game is, and has always been about choosing the MOST ELECTABLE conservative candidate.
You do not get the “purist” candidate - because there is not one who can win a national election. No sane citizen of this Constitutional Representative Republic is so self-absorbed in their orthodoxy as to play the purist fiddle while the nation burns to the ground around them. We have a nation to save, and a Republic to restore - In that most gravest of causes, purity must take a back seat to the necessity of preservation.
We are now in a fight to the death with forces that mean to utterly destroy us, and all we have ever been. Let me remind you of those fateful words spoken in our past:
“... Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. ...” - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
We need ALL hands on deck - the purists and the not so pure; the ideologue and the pragmatist; Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, man, woman, young, old - every one who believes in what this country stands for ... We need every creed, color, race and ethnicity who, at their very core, are AMERICANS FIRST - purity be damned.
Donald Trump is not a straight down the list “pure” conservative - but then neither is Senator Ted Cruz, his protests to the contrary notwithstanding ... In fact, I doubt you will ever find such a one standing among us, because we each hold to a different idea of what defines that moniker of “conservative” - and that IS the point that Governor Palin was making in her endorsement speech.
On the other hand, the enemy we face is very “pure” - and very focused on one singular evil goal - our utter destruction ... He is the Dragon of fascist governance - call the beast “Smog” if you please, and ourselves the Hobbits. This entrenched and most powerful adversary desires that our rugged individualism, that guiding spirit which beats in every American heart, be burned out of existence and replaced with subservient collectivism ...
And those individuals, who demand nothing but “ideological purity,” are helping this adversary achieve his goal.
In this, our hour of trial, we need a champion - more than a Bilbo Baggins, we need a Braveheart ... We need a leader - one who will exploit the Dragon’s weakness, see the chink in his armor, and let fly the arrow of liberty ... Thus to slay the Dragon ... Not merely for the purists, but for all Americans - red, white and blue.
That was really good. Weird near the Hobbits.lol.
Did you know that Braveheart was not William Wallace’s nickname, but rather, Robert the Bruce’s? And that the Scots in those battles didn’t use blue facepaint?
Bravo! Now THAT is a well thought out and powerful statement. Thank you for expressing it so clearly.