Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Looking forward to 2008, correcting the errors of 2006

When you have a necessary choice between the ideal, the imperfect, and the bad, it is obviously in your best interest to choose the ideal option.

When you have a necessary choice between the imperfect and the bad, choosing the imperfect is also in your best interests.

When faced with a necessary choice between a bad option and a worse option, it is still in your best interest to choose the bad over the worse.

The only exception to the above occurs when the situation is dire and calls for a scorched earth policy. A scorched earth policy makes things much worse immediately with no guarentee that one day things will be better than they are now, however, and are best left as last ditch efforts at survival.

So now you are probably wondering, "what the hell is the point Jib is trying to make here?" My point is this: Next time you are in a voting booth, apply the logic above. Last fall we conservatives grumbled mightily about our Republican choices in the midterm elections. I suspect many of us went to the scorched earth plan well before it was justified. As a result, we collectively chose the 'worse option' with no guarentees that things will be better down the road.

Additionally, realize that, as a self reliant conservative, if you don't like your choices at the polls again in 2008, you are partly to blame. Before and during the primary elections, you have the freedom to recruit, support, campaign for, and donate to a candidate you find satisfactorily conservative. The blame game played by a lot of grass roots conservatives in 2006 has to stop before 2008 or Democrats are going to own Washington for a long, long time. We all have some ownership in who is and is not chosen to represent us, and thus share in the blame for lousy candidates and representatives. Do something about it.

And yes, as an on again, off again complainer in 2006, I'm going to take a couple of big doses of my own medicine.

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