Its time to make some decisions.  In other words, its time to stop being all or nothing douchelickers and start making the country a better place.


What brings this on?  Well, the rather common anger at Scott Brown (Senator from the People's Republic of Mass) for voting for a 15 billion dollar "jobs bill."

Does the jobs bill suck?  Sure.  But it only sucks 15 billion dollars in an era when nearly every bill suggested by the Choady Triad (Pelosi/Reid/Obama) has a price tag in the trillion dollar range.  If Scott Brown can vote with the Dems on something that is nearly insignificant in order to be able to vote against them on something as ridiculous as cap and trade, not only do I agree with his decision but I'm confused as to how you can NOT agree with it.

Bottom line is, you can't vote against a bill if you aren't in office.  Scott Brown WILL be a partial term footnote in a history book if he doesn't at least occasionally play nice with a party that has an overwhelming dominance in his state. 

And unlike Snowe (who is the definition of a RINO) Brown IS on our team in meaningful ways.  He just isn't 100% on the party line.  But 40% is WAY better than 0% and his 40% could be the difference when we finally get our seats back in the Independent part of the country.  

As much as we like to think our views are held by the majority, most of our views aren't.  They are partially held by a majority and maybe totally held by a plurality but in the end, we have to make friends with people that only partially agree with us to get where we want to go.  Let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Which brings me to the other hard choice.  I think the Republican party should 100% drop the SoCon elements of its platform.  I'm not saying we should just let people run roughshod over us on abortion or gay marriage but those issues should, at least be put in the back seat.  Gay marriage IS A LOSING ISSUE.  Maybe not today and maybe not in 5 years but look at the numbers on the under 30 set.  It will be legal, and even if it isn't, there will be a rather large subset of the population going forward that will NEVER vote Republican because they think they are bigots.  This percentage is already and definitely will be large enough to hand power to our opponents and continue the extensive growth of government in size and ability to intrude on our lives.

If it is between letting gay people get married at the courthouse and bankrupting America, guess what I say we focus on? 

Bottom line is, we can't have it all.  We can have ENOUGH to keep America solvent and prosperous but only if we start deciding we want to WIN instead of be ideologically pure.

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