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To Vote or Not.......Another apology to Shakespeare. The current state of conservative affairs begs for a look at this key issue from the eyes of Hamlet!

To VOTE or not to VOTE, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind of conservative republicans to
suffer under pretended conservative leadership, possessed of hastily adopted values, barely tolerable platforms and very short memories of the past,

Or to express disgust at a party awash in compromise,
by sitting out the vote, and allowing the landslide victory of a foe, who though a foe is a foe both heart and soul, without pretense as to what their moral views are.
To boycott, yes, to abandon the party to its fate, if only for a time.
To gloat ...To see conservatives, who are no conservatives, trounced by Democrats.
Democrats? Aye, there's the rub,
For in that boycott, and from that gloat, may rise with foul stench, four years of Clintonian rule, whoever is nominated to presided.
Four years, Oh......perish the thought!
Such self-caused horror must give us pause.
Alas, compromise, a dirty yet familiar friend.
Would not four years of pretended conservative rule,
be far more to be desired then equal time of liberal anarchy?
Perchance, but then what of the bogs of sticky mud, found oft on the roads to compromise!
What next? How far? How long? How liberal the next pretended conservative?
When does one say enough!
Be we conservatives in name only. Shall we be, and act the part, of the very thing we now despise to support, yet fear to abandon.
Does conscience truly make cowards of us all?
Shall we support the lesser evil, til it grows to be the greater. No, four years is long indeed, more so when under liberal rule, yet not so long as hell suffered by conscience seared closed, forever blotted out by compromise.
And to Vote, what is to vote but to express one's true ideals. Would not a refusal to exercise such right, be vote itself, a firm expression of lines one will not cross, principles one will not set aside, be the inevitable victor ne'r so vile!
Aye to vote or not to vote, that truly is the question!

By D. Keith Shurlteff

Tough questions yes, but ones that all conservatives must reflect upon if the current primary continues on its path!

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