- Principle is not an automatic gainsaying of any statement the other side makes
- Mindlessly opposing what “the other side” says is not principal. And conservatives are fond of saying that anything the government can legislate, it can break. Why does that not apply to marriage?
- Republicans and America must provide an alternative
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If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost. - Rudyard Kipling: The Humility of the Plague Doctor
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Charts and graphs are not science. You can get charts and graphs with astrology and biorhythms. Computers can model scientific superstition just as well as they can model real theories. Bloodletting is superstition even if its done in the name of a computer model. - Voting for a candidate supports that candidate’s positions
- Politics has meaning; your support of a candidate is support for that candidate’s policies. If you vote for candidates who move “your” party in a direction you don’t approve, no one knows that but you. Everyone else sees your vote as approval for moving the entire party in that direction.
