Comments on: That Endorsement Would Have Been More Useful…Last Year http://larison.org/2008/01/11/that-endorsement-would-have-been-more-usefullast-year/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:20:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: James Newland http://larison.org/2008/01/11/that-endorsement-would-have-been-more-usefullast-year/#comment-8491 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:56:37 +0000 http://larison.org/2008/01/11/that-endorsement-would-have-been-more-usefullast-year/#comment-8491 "There is an idea when it comes to such endorsements that you trivialise your influence on the process if you endorse a candidate who cannot realistically win the nomination, and they clearly reject that kind of thinking." A refusal to endorse any of them would demonstrate real principle and actually increase theire influence on the process, imo. Endorsing the least of five evils is just politics as usual, even if it's better than endorsing a greater evil simply for the sake of backing a winner. “There is an idea when it comes to such endorsements that you trivialise your influence on the process if you endorse a candidate who cannot realistically win the nomination, and they clearly reject that kind of thinking.”

A refusal to endorse any of them would demonstrate real principle and actually increase theire influence on the process, imo. Endorsing the least of five evils is just politics as usual, even if it’s better than endorsing a greater evil simply for the sake of backing a winner.

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