If there is one thing I have made brutally clear, I am not going to get swept up in some us versus them mentality. I long opposed and criticized McCain's positions on issues, but many on the right used that as a excuse to be just horrible people. "well he was a Democrat in Republicans clothing anyway", so what? If he was registered Democratic that certainly wouldn't be acceptable.
It starts with this but it doesn't end here. When you start to debase your standards, it is like your currency, it gets worse and everything gets devalued. When you reach the point where everything is justifiable on the basis of sticking it to the other side, you have lost all claim to being any reasonable man's definition of conservative.
Principles are about restraint, not convenience. Principles keep you on the right path instead of straying off into the swamp because it looks like a short cut. When you opt for convenience, justify it on a partisan basis or us versus them, that is how you end up with the Constitution being run through a cheese grater, attempts to expand executive power (even while decrying the deep state), more debt then in the whole history of mankind and yes a crass disrespect for everything sacred about this country's traditions.
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