The Stout Republican

This started, of course, in the chat section, but due to length, I think it requires it’s own post.

I won’t vote for McCain, because I think it’s about time Republicans learn to act like Republicans, or dare I say…Conservatives. We’ve been incrementally wiping ourselves out, because the “die-hards” among us continue to vote Republican, only out of fear of the alternative. However, I feel that the Republicans need to learn a lesson. Apparently 2006 wasn’t enough of a lesson.

We keep giving the Republican electorate a free pass. They keep moving more and more centrist, and in McCain’s case, left, and we continue to vote for them, because “the Clintons” or Obama would be far worse.

Ayn Rand once wrote:

Contrary to the fanatical belief of its advocates, compromise [on basic principles] does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to be all things to all men, end up by not being anything to anyone. And more: the partial victory of an unjust claim, encourages the claimant to try further; the partial defeat of a just claim, discourages and paralyzes the victim.

Those “claimants” continue to push…and we continue to lose.

The three rules listed below are by no means exhaustive; they are merely the first leads to the understanding of a vast subject.

1. In any conflict between two men (or two groups) who hold the same basic principles, it is the more consistent one who wins.

2. In any collaboration between two men (or two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins.

3. When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side.

The irrational is winning, because truth continues to be obscured, whether it be by “feelings” (which have no place in determining truth) or anger (which seems to drive out opponents). I’m not voting, not because I’m angry…but because I’m tired of the compromise. All the left has to do is be steadfast…to hold the line, and little by little we move, and they offer the most liberal among them. They move left…we move left? And I’m supposed to be okay with this? I’m supposed to vote against my beliefs because the alternative is worse? Since when did we go on the ideological defense? Since when did we decide that compromising our core values…free speech, personal responsibility, individual freedom…is worth it, just so that we can stay in power under the “Republican” moniker.

It’s not worth it to me. I will not give in because I am afraid of the alternative. It might be the alternative that leads to our eventual success. If it took Carter to give us Reagan, then maybe it takes another liberal failure of epic proportions to remind the American people that government does not run and control it’s people…it’s the people that control the government.

Those are my beliefs…I will not compromise any longer.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube …

Update: This is the guy I’m supposed to vote for? I might have to pull a Coulter here and go aggressive…give the masses of impressionable jackasses what they deserve, but I don’t think I have the testicular fortitude. GoingThere might.

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