Moderates to Conservatives: Don’t Cut Off Your Nose : Use a Clothes-pin

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Right about now it’s time for far right conservatives in the Republican party to begin thinking about the consequences of a Barack Hussein Obama or a Trans-gender Clinton presidency. Think about the ramifications. Think about any upcoming Supreme Court nominations. Think about Iran with nukes. Think about massive civil war in Iraq and the full destabilization of the southern providences by Iran after we withdraw. Think about 2nd Amendment rights and the right to life for the unborn. Think about the institution of marriage. Think about Israel under attack by emboldened islamic radicals and its ramifications. Think about increasing taxes here at home. Then think about either one or both of the Democratic candidates in the White House!!

CPAC, it’s time to level with John McCain and tell him what you want if he expects your vote. Whining and pouting will accomplish nothing and risk everything. It’s a golden opportunity to shape his platform — HE NEEDS YOU!! Recognize that the majority of this country are moderate conservatives. They expect some flexibility in their leaders to adapt for the good of the nation. That means sometimes bending a bit. That, in fact, is often what John McCain has tried to do. He did it by promoting the surge and PUSHING BACK on Rumsfeld and the President. He was in favor of more troops on the ground since day 1 of the war. Lo and behold, the surge is working. It takes a maverick sometimes to redirect the stubborn. Finding some middle ground to keep the nation together is what the MAJORITY of Americans want.

I am NOT a big fan of some of the alliances he has made. Frankly I am sure he has come to regret some of them. Yes — he is NOT a staunch conservative, but he does have the potential to win in November with the right running mate. That’s where the party should begin to spend it’s mental energy. Winning in November. Jules Crittenden at PJM sums it up nicely…

Some conservatives are talking about sitting it out. The idea is that it is not such a bad thing to lose one. It might be better for the party. Give the other side enough rope, let the Republican Party regroup and find its feet and a few new candidates.

It’s loser talk — bitter loser talk — worthy of the Democratic leadership of Congress. You’ll recall they claimed a mandate they didn’t quite have, fought the same futile battle again and again, but failed to bring anything viable to the table. Rather than look ahead to the interests of the nation, they looked to their own narrow political interest, failed to satisfy that either, and stumbled and fell, earning the disgust even of the people who voted them in.

What is undeniable is that the single greatest threat the United States faces is that in four years, Iraq is abandoned, chaos and genocide take hold there, and the great expenditure of precious American blood and treasure there is rendered a waste. In four years, Iran can have a nuclear weapon. Both of these events will have wide ramifications. The nations of the Middle East and Far East can see a United States weakened and unreliable, and they will look elsewhere and to other means to defend their interests. Meanwhile, Iran, China, North Korea, Sudan, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Myanmar regime, Putin — I’m sorry, it’s a long list; I might have missed some — can be relied on to take advantage of our absence from the field to advance their own positions.

Because America will be perceived again to be a nation without a spine, a nation that chooses to lose, a nation that will not fight for its ideals. Is it the sixth or seventh time in the last four decades? Vietnam. Iran. Lebanon. Somalia. Al-Qaeda and Saddam in the 1990s. Our enemies know that list very well. It is their mantra, the weakness they see in us that strengthens them and keeps them going. — Jules Crittenden

It’s time to begin thinking more about the consequences of not voting and less about the bitter taste in our mouths that we are experiencing today. It may be the one noble sacrifice Republican conservatives will be asked to make, to come to the aid of their party in order to ensure victory in November. The stakes are too high to do otherwise.

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