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I am a weird sort. Call me a pragmatic idealist, I know what I want, and I know what I can get.

I've always argued that once Castro falls, there will be quite a problem in Cuba. The people who left there (years or even decades ago) and their offspring, will return to claim their land and property, they will also take credit for the fall of Castroism.

They will face resentful, angry native Cubans, the ones who didn't leave, the ones who stood their ground and resisted in the face of overwhelming odds...the one's that worked from within to affect change.

I'm staying with my Grand Old Party Bill, I am throwing in my hat with Ronnie's Party. And I, standing side-by-side with the rest of the pragmatic idealists, will turn the Party around from within and build that shinning city on a hill...and you can bet the house on that.

This is my cause, and this is the way that I, along with all those other pragmatic idealists, will fight for our country and win. And we'll be just as resentful, and angry, when the day comes that the Party is fully restored, and all those "true conservatives" who walked of the battle field, return with a clamor of heraldic trumpets, claiming that their absence was the catalyst that brought about THEIR victory.

Luis

This is my cause, and this is the way that I, along with all those other pragmatic idealists, will fight for our country and win. And we'll be just as resentful, and angry, when the day comes that the Party is fully restored, and all those "true conservatives" who walked of the battle field, return with a clamor of heraldic trumpets, claiming that their absence was the catalyst that brought about THEIR victory.

Very well stated! Count me in as part of your pragmatic idealists. If the use of the word "true conservative" is what I have seen on these posts recently attacking Jim and the rest of us for daring to disagree with them with our support of our President and wanting a Republican Congress, then I am comfortable just being called a flat out Republican that leans conservative. In OK where I live, voting for conservatives is an easy task since moderate Republicans in this part of the Country are not that plentiful.

I am not a one issue voter and never will be. I prefer to see the big picture and that is Republicans in charge of the entire Congress so we can control the Chairmanships. Guess that makes me NOT a "true conservative" whatever that means!

Going to be one of those folks that has a long memory of who was with us or against us! And I don't think I am the only one!