Unprincipled Republican Party leaders -- now there's a redundancy for you -- have their knickers in a bunch and are crying fowl over conservatives having the temerity to nominate their own candidates for election to public offices in a number of key races.
This, they despairingly (and disparagingly) note, may draw enough votes from the GOP's anointed Republican In Name Only candidate in any given contest to enable the RINO candidate's Democrat opponent to win election.
Gee. Hard cheese and cheers, I say. If the Republicans want conservative votes they should nominate conservative candidates and not candidates who are only slightly less pink than the red Democrat progressive candidates.
As one who has watched individual responsibilities and rights erode before the rising tide of governmental expansions for more than seven decades, I say good for the conservatives. I am tired of voting for a candidate only because he or she is purported to be "the lesser of two evils."
If the choice is limited to one between a great evil and a lesser evil, one gets evil irrespective of which candidate wins, and that with rare exceptions is what we've been getting for as long as I can remember. Accordingly, I have resolved never again to vote against anyone and to cast my ballot only for individuals I judge to be worthy of support -- candidates who demonstrably are devoted to upholding the principles upon which this country was founded and built . . . to the Constitution.
As is indicated by this* more detailed scholarly analysis and exposition of this point of view, I am not alone or even lonely any more as enough other people -- a rapidly growing number, in fact -- are coming to the same conclusion.
* Note: The link is to the second page of an essay that includes a recommended pledge for every candidate seeking conservative votes. After reading the linked page, it is worth using the arrow at the bottom to go back to, and read the essay's first page.
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