TBR is all about the *big tent* and I am not going to go through another election year of GOP factions here bashing each other for not seeing or adopting their POV..we all believe what we believe and TBR was created as a place where we could ALL discuss our POV's and more importantly work to over throw our common enemy...THE DEMOCRATS
Just as the nation's Founders agreed that the contentious issues faced by the nation should be all worked out in the laboratory of the States (bloody ones when it came to slavery), contentious interparty issues should be worked out in the laboratory of forums and debate halls (places where politics used to be argued before Al Gore invented the Internet).
It is imperative that we work through all our differences here, before the battle (as it were) is joined.
My personal goal is to incite intelligent debate among friends. It is not to act as an agent provocateur, or an agitator.
My ideas on government an politics in general are impacted every single day by posts I read here and other places, and I shift my stances as I experience paradigm shifts as a result of being exposed to a point of view that I may have not given thought to before. Understanding why those who disagree with you disagree with you is perhaps the greatest bit of political understanding that anyone could ever gain.
That (to me) is a GOOD thing. I can't be so rigid that I will break as a result of resistance to learning things, or even changing.
Politics and political ideology to me is a journey where the destination is the journey itself.