ace...if you cant move on, then dont.
I would suggest that conservatives and the country are better served by heeding the advice of guys like Newt Gingrich on this issue rather than Rush Limbaugh:
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is denouncing Republican attempts to link President-elect Barack Obama and disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.....
...In a time when America is facing real challenges, Republicans should be working to help the incoming President succeed in meeting them, regardless of his Party.
From now until the inaugural, Republicans should be offering to help the President-elect prepare to take office.
Furthermore, once President Obama takes office, Republicans should be eager to work with him when he is right, and, when he is wrong, offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him.
This is the only way the Republican Party will become known as the “better solutions” party, not just an opposition party. And this is the only way Republicans will ever regain the trust of the voters to return to the majority.
Ben Smith's Blog: Newt denounces Blago attacks - Politico.com
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Originally Posted by roachboy
it's doubly confusing because pragmatism can be understood as a tactic rather than an ideology, one that entails cobbling together elements from a range of positions using a criterion of efficacy, say. but this says nothing about the ideological position occupied by the pragmatist---it simply points to tactics.
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QFT...only to add:
If Obama governs in a pragmatic, inclusive, consensus-building and open manner that will be far different from the last eight years, as IMO, I think he will, my guess is that he will be characterized
as a marxist by many on the far right for his domestic agenda
as only marginally better than the PNAC crowd by many on the far left for his foreign policy/national security agenda
and most Americans in the center left/right will initially support him on both and withhold judgement until they see results.