"I want to wear dreadlocks. It shows that I'm a rebel."
-- Anonymous
One of the reasons that I'm not rich is that I am arrogant and think too highly of my own wisdom. Furthermore, I'm one of the true geeks that really enjoys sitting in front of a computer screen all day and half the night. My skills assessments say that I should have been either an architect or a surgeon. Well, so much for not being arrogant. But I could have been a damned good lawyer. But at the time I was considering law school, I didn't realize that lawyers didn't necessarily have to be straight laced. So I didn't talk to enough lawyers to understand what kind of money I could have made dealing with very very gray areas. Depending upon how broke I retire, I may come to regret the decision I made not to do law. I simply believed in my naivete that I couldn't stomach the idea that the law might be as spaghetti as I know computering is. At this point in my life, I relish that very complexity and inconsistency. Eh. You live and learn.
As part of my arrogance, I am not much of a joiner. Thus I write. Why? Because I am not satisfied most of the time that somebody else might have said what I'm thinking only better. So what? I still have to say it, or as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been properly expressed.
This is the reason I am not a Raging RINO.
I thought about joining up with these cats a week or so ago when somebody accused me of 'drinking koolaid'. I hate koolaid, both real and metaphorical. See, I'm a builder. I have no time for theories I haven't invented. I make stuff work, and half the time, I make crap work. The important thing to me is that it works.
So the question of the propriety of the Raging RINOs or any other such camp, is 'do they work'? So if the Raging RINOs as a party faction do work, then eventually I might join them. But I don't want to drink their koolaid either. Well, actually the RINOs don't have koolaid. All they are saying is what they are not. Now I'm a secular conservative, so I basically fit. Yeah I'm a Christian, but I'm not a Republican because I'm a Christian, nor am I a Christian because I'm Republican. I happen not to see any fundamental conflicts and some interesting synergies, but I don't want anybody confusing possible rivalries. For example, how would I answer the question, why Raging RINOs and not Blogdom of God? I'm sure I could come up with an answer that sounds waffly. But fundamentally since the RINOs don't have a real pledge they're really not really raging are they?
So I'm basically here. If it's just another tag to generate blog traffic and I'm generally sympathetic with the 'no koolaid drunken here' message, is it better to join a group of non-joiners, or just not join them?
The other problem, aside from my hair-splitting persnickety attitude, is whether or not this RINO thing helps my Conservative Brotherhood message or dilutes it. I am leaning towards believing that it helps it, depending upon the practicality of how much more traffic Cobb gets as a result of joining the RINOs. If perhaps I think of it as nothing more than a label, then that could work. The problem which I don't really have but might get is...
OK enough dithering. I'm joining. But you understand my point, right?
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