Posted on 08/05/2010 12:47:55 PM PDT by sdkruiser
Welcome to the "put up or shut up" phase of the 2010 election year.
For years, we conservatives have experienced a steady dose of buyer's remorse with seemingly every Republican elected to represent us. Frustration and anger with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid three-headed bureaucratic monster but the seeds of crankiness were sown by a Republican Congress that spent money like a Kennedy kid on Spring Break.
We now face a unique set of circumstances leading into the fall elections and have a pretty clear choice in front of us: do we keep running candidates through the GOP mill and hope they don't sell us out or do we go all-in for candidates who embody true conservative principles?
The reality is that several squishy (no backbone), moderate Republican candidates have already made it through their primaries and may be disappointing you in Washington in the near future. Why? Simple-the money is still flowing in the wrong direction.
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I think at this point we support the person who is the most conservative but can still get ellected. Then, put as much pressure on them while in office as possible with no let up. Never again can we sit back and assume because they are Republican they will do the right thing. Never, ever should we support or put up a third party candidate to try to get someone more conservative. In fact, if someone tries to run as a third party we need to pressure all we can to not support them.
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