- Principle is not an automatic gainsaying of any statement the other side makes
- Mindlessly opposing what “the other side” says is not principal. And conservatives are fond of saying that anything the government can legislate, it can break. Why does that not apply to marriage?
- Voting for a candidate supports that candidate’s positions
- Politics has meaning; your support of a candidate is support for that candidate’s policies. If you vote for candidates who move “your” party in a direction you don’t approve, no one knows that but you. Everyone else sees your vote as approval for moving the entire party in that direction.
