When Liberal/Progressives call for “compromise,” invariably they ask for conservatives and right-thinkers to surrender principles and ideals.  That, we expect. We shouldn’t expect our side to willingly capitulate.

Guest blogger Kevin Putt in response to the intolerable Joe Scarborough – who is eager to betray his supposed right-side credentials – posted the following today:

Joe Scarborough is wrong and to follow his thinking is to lead the Republican Party and this nation down a dusty, dry road of compromise that leads to weakness. It makes good sound-bites to use Grover Norquist as the fall guy (big-talking bully tactic by a coward), but that misses the whole point (Grover is a side-show). I can appreciate the love of a father and take Jeb Bush’s comments for his admiration of his father for what they are. The truth is, 41 sold out the Republican party while reneging on his ‘no new taxes’ pledge and allowed Richard Darman to go to the DEMOCRATS first in the Congress to begin negotiating a tax increase to treat the budget deficit – a blatant insult to every Republican in Congress (Richard Darman = the ultimate RINO). It was this act that set up the 1994 contract with America, that allowed Joe Scarborough to aggrandize the conservative cause as his own.

Joe Scarborough was a following back-bencher in his short tenure in the Congress who did nothing of any note on his own there, and who was lured by the brighter lights of media and the narcissistic love of his own voice within the pontificatory echo-chamber in which he currently resides. He is the ultimate “false profit” and not to be taken seriously about anything regarding the future of the Republican Party.

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, as conservatives, didn’t start out compromising but led with their principles, about which they were very clear. Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers to state his principles and to send his message of no compromise. Margaret Thatcher did the same with her defense of the Falklands (as Ronald Reagan did with Grenada) and her tough budget decisions, and many other examples for each from start to finish. Only after each had solidified their principles did they work within the system to move forward. Each, through their courage and conviction, completely changed the terms of debate. That, my friends, is leadership.

Now is not the time to work together in the Congress. Now is the time to state principles and to hold to them and to declare them even if nothing gets done because the stakes are infinitely higher now than they were when our darling Joe was a nobody from northern Florida doing nothing on a back bench in Congress.

This country is in a crucial battle of what policies are the right ones. The slippery slope of incremental inertia toward government and bureaucratic control over our sovereignty (which George I and George II abetted – notwithstanding the goodness of their intentions) has got to stop.

Joe is wrong, and so is Jeb.