Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:50:39 PM
Let’s be realistic with each other.
The Republican Party is composed of some distinct and not-so-distinct factions which don’t always like each other and sometimes have priorities and principles that clash. There are the “religious right” types, the libertarians, the Wall Street Journal business and investor interests, the general conservatives, the RINOs, the single-issue voters (gun owners, pro-lifers, border controllers, hawks), etc.
The realistic part comes in realizing that we can’t win Presidential elections, Congressional elections, or state positions without each other, and without convincing a significant number of non-Republicans to vote with us.
You may want Roe v. Wade to stand, but care more about being hawkish in the fight against Islamofascist terrorists, for example.
Even if a particular Republican candidate has major differences from your ideal, letting Democrats keep a majority means that Democrats will run the show and control committees – and their party is animated mostly by the Leftists who go softly against those who seek to kill us, want to punish businesses and personal success, and seek to expand government.
So let’s hope that the Republican Party will make the right priorities and stand up for the values in those priorities, and if it does, let’s work together to keep the Presidency and retake Congress, because we have a lot more in common than we have pitting us against each other.
Just consider the Democrats – the party of so many pornographers is also the party of radical feminists. Their factions are much more in conflict than ours, and yet they manage to win elections.