Constitution Party Forum: "We need a standard to defeat the fear factor."

The Constitution Party discussion forum relays a document by Robert Peck calling on "Christian, conservative, Constitutional and liberty minded people" to create a vetting process to determine acceptable candidates for office and fend off the tendency toward lesser-evil voting:

Normally, 'the great conservative hope' for any given election cycle, is selected by a reactionary process of vesting all our hope in the first candidate who throws out some conservative sounding rhetoric and appears to be able to beat the evil liberal nemesis. Happily, in the current election cycle, I have heard a few people (too few) speaking of the need for a candidate vetting process for their group or organization . . . . until Christian, conservative, Constitutional and liberty loving people and organizations establish such a vetting process that looks to clearly defined, fixed, objective standards for assessing candidates, the so called conservative cause is doomed and will only proceed ever farther down the path of socialism, humanism and irrelevance.

Without such a standard to guide us, we will never know when we have lost our way. I believe that in great part, the conservative movement has indeed lost its way and doesn't even know it because we have forgotten, lost sight of, or become compromised in our understanding of key principles of original, Constitutional Americanism . . . . Then may I ask, that we have the courage to stand our ground and withhold our support and even our vote from candidates who do not sufficiently meet that standard.

And no, it is not acceptable to support a candidate simply because they are considerably better than the liberal. If we continue to compromise and settle for less than what we know to be right and believe to be necessary, then the political powers that be will rightly assess that they can continue to force on us whatever candidate they choose and we will continue to accept that candidate so long as there is a liberal to fear who we are told “Must Be Beat.”  I see two primary issues – the lack of an objective standard to guide us and our willingness to move or ignore the standard, an act which has its roots in fear.