Today, 07:48 AM
Well, that's a pleasant reminiscence, but I don't ever remember a time when it was particularly true. I remember a handful of candidates trying to drag conservative principles into the debate kicking and screaming. The most successful of these wound up in the strange situation of hearing the Golden Rule booed in South Carolina.
It's hard to understand the psychology of GOP voters if you don't watch any football. The first thing to remember is, sportsmanship and how you play the game is laudible, but winning rules and losing sucks. Second, when you get sacked twenty-five yards, but there's a personal foul after the play that comes with an automatic first down, that's a win. You just went ten yards the wrong damned direction, but you got a first down, you're still in the game and still have the ball, so it's a win. Which is why the most progressive liberal of 1960 typically had more conservative principles than the typical modern Republican.
Ideas we have, though they all keep coming from the clown show. It's easy to claim a fine set of principles when you're desperately clinging to whomever or whatever you think can stop the child mutilation and sterilization. And in all those other details, where the devil resides (and spends his time transferring money from the poor to the rich)? In times like these, principle has a hard row to hoe.
It's a shame. A principled candidate could win the general election with great ease, if either party were capable of nominating one.
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