Thursday.....Politics.....Compromise

I was introduced to a man in town the other day who is well known in the Republican party, and whom I had heard good things about. I believe that I started talking about politics when I mentioned that This administration is moving faster towards Socialism that anyone imagined. The Republicans have to slow it down in anyway that they can. He was in total agreement and said, 2010 is the key. We have to wrest power from them in those elections or words to that effect. Knowing that there are a lot of Republicans who feel that we have to moderate, to be more inclusive to draw in a larger constituency, I brought the issue up, I know, but not if we have to compromise conservative principles. His response disappointed me as he emphatically took the opposite opinion. He said that you have to compromise sometimes where you get a little bit here and give up a little bit there. My response was that I had made my decision and there would be no compromise. That was the end of the conversation and I was satisfied that he had seen at least one Republican that day who was willing no more to vote for a candidate who had no passion in the views he proclaimed. There are times when one has to compromise in politics, I don't deny that but they cannot be made on certain issues, under any circumstances. Same gender marriage is one example. I would be willing to compromise on a number of facets on this general equality issue but not when they directly effect children. Here is your compromise, but when the children of this nation are involved, no election, no rationalizing that it will help children in other ways, not even the existence of this nation itself permits us, in effect, to go to God and say I know the importance that you have placed on protecting these young ones, but try to understand what we are trying to do. A ridiculous concept when presented that way, isn't it? If a Republican in Congress would come up to me and defend his position of compromise on a different issue, I would try to discern from his disposition and from his voting record whether he truly believed in the issues he put forth or whether he compromised his true beliefs to get elected when conservatism had the upper hand. The last twelve years have given us too many good ole boys on Capitol Hill and not even the disaster of the Obama Administration will lead me to give them another chance.