The attitude that has been presented (concerning anti-gun) is one of the reasons I can never vote for someone of the likes of Ron Paul, no matter how nice a person he or she may be... It matters not an ilk to me whether or not a candidate claims to stand for the Constitution or not [if] said candidate has absolutely no ability to see beyond the end of his or her nose and exercise some wisdom and long term prudence to realize that there is much more to leadership than saying my way or the highway. Those who support him have soured me against him so much, there is no way I will ever know for sure what he really stands for and if he has the ability to compromise.

The Constitution of The United States itself is also known as The Great Compromise. Everyone who were stakeholders in the creation of this law had to give and take in order to come away from the table with something that all could work with and was viable. At least that is what I remember learning in public school.

When there is no middle ground allowed or created, only polar opposites, that is the time people need to worry about loss of liberty when it comes to government, and well for that matter, group think in any community.

The Book of Mormon records that as long as the bulk of the people were righteous, the voice of the people would chose righteously when it came to government and law. I personally don't think we are to the point where the balance has tipped to there being more unrighteous people. Yet. There are many good people out there of many other denominations and faith traditions, but the fact they are not LDS does not make them "wicked". But, the more polar campaigns make things in order to paint their guy / gal as the one wearing the white hat and all his / her opponents wear the black hat not only pushes things closer to that point (IMHO), the nastiness tends to end up dehumanizing not only the candidates / political operatives / campaign workers / strategists / media, but the population as well. The more / deeper / longer it happens, the less likely we ever are to healing the rifts that campaigns create and coming together again as a unified nation. All we have to do is look at the ideologic rifts that have come about courtesy of the Clinton-ites and the Bush-ites.

We've been having the same arguments for nearly a year, and the primaries are not even here yet! I don't know that I can take another several months of it, let alone nearly a year as we go through the primaries into the general election. Look at the big picture and vote your conscience, not begrudging others the same right. And if the candidate you support does not make it, look to see who of the viable remaining candidates is worthy of your consideration. Raise up above the muck. Let's all try a little harder to avoid bad mouthing those candidates we do not agree with.

When the people are righteous, I don't think The Lord "raises up" but one good candidate for leader of a nation. Even in our personal lives, there is not always just one right answer when we go to The Lord. Just because He says "Yes" when we ask if our decision is correct doesn't necessarily mean it is the mutually exclusive "Yes" to all other possible approaches we could have come up with that we take to Him. I guess though, if you think the bulk of the people of our nation are unrighteous, then it becomes second nature to operate under a paradigm of there only being one good candidate.