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The Voters Who Stayed Home (The Key to Understanding the Results of the 2012 Elections)
National Review ^ | 11/10/2012 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 11/10/2012 5:13:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: C. Edmund Wright
Your rant doesn't cancel my 'self righteousness'

It doesn't gain you a single, solitary vote.

Angry can be good.

Sometimes, it can just be destructive.

You are there.

/johnny

161 posted on 11/10/2012 8:07:11 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: floralamiss
Who says I didn't vote? I didn't say that. Cruz won, didn't he?

I'm immune to personal attacks, but many voters that are watching aren't.

Perhaps one should consider that.

/johnny

162 posted on 11/10/2012 8:09:23 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Timber Rattler

Now Timber that’s funny. I’ve never said that. I would NEVER say that. But you have to ask yourself: why did that concept even enter your mind?

We know this: someone on FR is the smartest person on FR. Someone on FR is the dumbest person on FR. This is true of any group of people of course.

Now I’ve nominated some as perhaps the dumbest. But I’ve never even broached the subject of the smartest and certainly never said that I was.

And yet, you did bring up the subject.

Food for thought.


163 posted on 11/10/2012 8:11:31 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: SeekAndFind

I am sick to death of people on ur side saying we did not turn out

Hell in St Lucie county the turnout was 140% for hte Dems, col Allen West is doing his recount there

When ARE WE GOING TO STOP SAYING THIS AND POSTING CRAP AND NOT DEAL WITH THE RIGGED ELECTION?


164 posted on 11/10/2012 8:11:43 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: madison10

I think I’m going with the third option. I’m going to church tomorrow and ask God to send real revival to this land.


165 posted on 11/10/2012 8:11:43 AM PST by carton253
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To: what's up
Your name is spelled I-D-I-O-T.

Sticks and stones, son, sticks and stones. Personal attacks on me aren't going to get that vote you crave.

/johnny

166 posted on 11/10/2012 8:11:59 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“You claim that fiscal issues are NOT moral issues”

LIAR.

I said that fiscal and social issues are intertwined. Social conservativism is good fiscal sense - because strong families with a mother and father are much less likely to use government resources.

“Obamas government strip you of your freedoms and your property, just how much good will you be to the unborn?”

If I am arrested for defying Obamacare than I will go to jail rather than collaborate.

“When you don’t have a job, and can’t afford 15 dollar gas, and inflation has made feeding you and your family a real challenge, just how will you get to the pro life rally?”

I have already dropped my hours in response to the Obamacare mandate, and I make sure my take home pay is insufficient for Obama to take any of it. I’ve gone Galt since Obama was elected four years ago, and I will spend another 4 years going Galt.

I’ve been ready for 4 years. Where the hell were you, Rombot?


167 posted on 11/10/2012 8:12:05 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: SeekAndFind
A huge slice of the electorate stayed home.

No, actually millions of older, white Republlican voters died and the democrats added those names to their voter turnout.

168 posted on 11/10/2012 8:12:08 AM PST by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority!)
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To: muawiyah
I did comprehend what you wrote.

You won't be accepting ANY candidate who might be a repentant liberal who wants to run for office.

Even though many of the strongest conservatives even on this site, for example, once were deluded liberals in younger years.

In other words...you're a purist with no room for any other view.

169 posted on 11/10/2012 8:12:58 AM PST by what's up
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To: JRandomFreeper
It doesn't gain you a single, solitary vote.

You are an obtuse pharisee. It's not about that. That is not the issue at all. Small minds are obsessed with people. Mediocre minds are obsessed with issues. Big minds deal with ideas. You are obsessed with what I, a person, wants - and how I, a person, am advocating for it. Thus, your small minded obsession with me.

I am not obsessed with me. I am interested in the idea of the best way to preserve the Republic, which in some cases, means logically the best way to slow down the destruction of the Republic. Big minds, big ideas. Small minds, obsessed with people and emotion.

170 posted on 11/10/2012 8:14:39 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: what's up

You got it, She’s been perfect all her life. She demands the same.


171 posted on 11/10/2012 8:15:39 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: JRandomFreeper
Personal attacks on me

It's not a personal attack. It's a fact. You continue to think people here are trying to earn your vote (although the election is now over).

Meanwhile for some obscure reason you think you do not live under the same standards and pout in the corner.

This does not exhibit a whole lot of smarts.

172 posted on 11/10/2012 8:17:50 AM PST by what's up
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To: C. Edmund Wright
How is that working out for you on the winning the White House and Senate thing?

Didn't work, did it?

What you are doing isn't working.

Sorta sucks to keep playing those same cards over and over again....

/johnny

173 posted on 11/10/2012 8:17:56 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JCBreckenridge
I’ve been ready for 4 years. Where the hell were you, Rombot?

THIS IS DELICIOUS. You show what a fool you are for 2 reasons. A, you call me a rombot after I worked for two candidates who opposed him - and B, this...

Where was I? Oh, I don't know, just writing an article that went viral and was linked to every Randian website everywhere - quoted by every talk radio host - and derided by every liberal website on the planet - IN DECEMBER OF 2008!!!!!!!!!! You didn't go nearly as Galt as I did, nearly as soon as I did, nor had the impact I did....LOL

Read it and realize you are out of your league: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/blame_me_for_job_losses.html

174 posted on 11/10/2012 8:21:01 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: what's up
Calling someone an idiot is a personal attack, hero.

Own it. You did it. It's on the record. Lots of folks tune out when you do that.

I disagree with you. I will be respectful when I do that, and not call people names.

I think you are wrong.

/johnny

175 posted on 11/10/2012 8:21:30 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: what's up
Not sinse the last major faction change ~ which was pretty much over by the 2004 election.

8 years later we've had no major movements, and running one of their own kind isn't going to attract further large groups of Democrats to the Republican brand. What it will do is alienate legitimate Republicans.

This is not rocket science ~ it's politics. You may be willing to give away our top slot to a leftwingtard again, but I"m not, and we don't have to anyway. You don't see the Democrats doing that!

176 posted on 11/10/2012 8:22:25 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: who knows what evil?

“Here is who is at fault...the GOP nominates a candidate who was being rejected by 65-70% of Republican voters all the way thru the primary process. They leave their primaries ‘open’ to Democrat shenanigans.”

A good place to start is eliminating the open primaries. The Dems use open primaries to choose their opponents. Akin would likely not have been a GOP Senate candidate without Dem voters in the primary and the Republicans would have picked up a Senate seat in Missouri.


177 posted on 11/10/2012 8:23:53 AM PST by Soul of the South
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To: JRandomFreeper
Idiots are those with lesser intelligence.

For example, everyone knows that calling Biden an idiot is really a plain statement of fact.

And those who claim to hate abortion yet sit back and allow abortionists to gain in power are...well...idiotic.

178 posted on 11/10/2012 8:23:53 AM PST by what's up
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To: JRandomFreeper

What is it that I am doing? I am neither Karl Rove nor Todd Akin. I am neither Reince Preibus nor Richard Mourdock.

I support those like Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Scott Walker, Allen West - that’s the mindset I represent. Again, the solution is not the establishment way, nor is it the bottom of the barrel tea party way - it’s the top line tea party way. That’s where I am. Maybe google Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. He and Cruz are good examples of where the future should be. And that way IS working.


179 posted on 11/10/2012 8:24:21 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost....Again")
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To: Brandonmark
Even more millions of Democrats dropped dead and just disappeared.

See what happens when you run those voter registration rolls to clean out the dead, departed and non-existent!

Another hit like the one the Dems just had and they'll disappear as a political party.

180 posted on 11/10/2012 8:26:08 AM PST by muawiyah
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