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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: what's up
are immature purists

You say that.. and yet you want me to vote for your candidate... Do you see any issue there?

You are insulting the people that control the votes that you want and need.

In what way does that help your cause?

/johnny

81 posted on 11/10/2012 6:42:45 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Rashputin

“The fact is they’re playing Russian Roulette with their future and the future of the children but have convinced themselves they’re standing on the moral high ground.”

They gave our children Greece.

If Ronald Reagan was a Mormon, they wouldn’t have voted for him, either. Obama played the bigots like a violin.


82 posted on 11/10/2012 6:42:45 AM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: what's up

Well damn, I didn’t know Mitt was “your” and “my” candidate? Did you? According to that brilliant sorcerer JRandomDumbass, you and I owned Mitt and it was “our” job to kiss JRandom’s rear end and woo him to our side.

I guess you and I didn’t do a good enough job of that for “our” candidate. Then again, I was under the silly notion that a vote was about simply making the best choice of those presented to us. Silly me.


83 posted on 11/10/2012 6:42:57 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Consultant Class Have Destroyed America")
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To: SeekAndFind
I think the big mystery can be solved by just looking at our nominee...Romney.

There are a whole bunch of Republican base voters that wont vote for a Mormon. Magic underwear? Really?

Few conservatives could trust him with his far left record in office in MA.

Queer marriage, abortion, and a rabid anti-gunner.

He invented Obamacare!

Gee, I wonder why the electorate couldn't get enthused about a candidate that promoted everything they hate the only time he held public office?

84 posted on 11/10/2012 6:43:02 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: carton253

It’s your fault and my fault, don’t you know? It is our job to make sure we properly woo and sell JRandomBrainfart to get him to do us the momentous favor of his company at a polling place. You and I better get with the program!!!!!


85 posted on 11/10/2012 6:45:49 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Consultant Class Have Destroyed America")
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To: SeekAndFind; SoConPubbie

The stay at home conservatives believe that by not participating in this elections it would make a statement that the Republicans were not conservative enough and make the Republicans more conservative. Of course the opposite is and true it makes them want to become more progressive and liberal and compete for the voters that cast votes.

The “Stay at Home” voters, “NO VOTE” voters and the Turd Party” voters may have squandered our last chance to stop the socialist.

What chance do we have of penacting any law that would eliminate ELECTION and VOTER FRAUD with an obama Justice Department??


86 posted on 11/10/2012 6:46:14 AM PST by duffee (Romney 2012, NEWT 2016)
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To: carton253
If you stayed home, for any reason, you have earned my contempt and scorn.

If you voted for Romney in any primary, you have earned my contempt and scorn...

Not realy, just making a point...

The first (or second) thing on Romney's agenda was to start new (unfair) trade agreements with South America so he could send more of our jobs there...

You guys were told not to shove Romney unto the people because he couldn't win...But you did it anyway...Now that's twice in a row...You were warned about McCain as well...

Maybe next time you'll vote for the conservatives' candidate...

87 posted on 11/10/2012 6:47:56 AM PST by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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To: Beagle8U

First, he didn’t “invent” Obama Care - but there’s not talking to you about that, so I’ll use an anology.

Nobel invented dynamite. Then he decided it was a bad thing and didn’t want to use it. Mitt has decided that Obama Care is a bad thing, and decided not to use it. Obama, on the other hand, has made another decision.

Would be ironic if you are taken out by an Obama death panel, now wouldn’t it?


88 posted on 11/10/2012 6:48:56 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Consultant Class Have Destroyed America")
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To: C. Edmund Wright
then you are an abomination.

That's sure to win votes.

Anger has it's place.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.

If you want my vote, put up a candidate that has a PROVEN record of being anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-socialized medicine, and has reduced government.

Otherwise, sod off. Not voting for your guy.

Want to win? Play by those rules or don't win.

You can rant, rave, and excoriate until the cows come home.

But you can't make me vote for your guy, unless he meets my list.

/johnny

89 posted on 11/10/2012 6:49:20 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SeekAndFind

Romney lost the Conservative Christian vote because he is a Mormon.

Southern Baptists have been trying to convert Mormons to Christianity for decades and they decided to stay home rather than vote for wither candidate.

To some Christians, Mormons are worse than Muslims because the LDS church has “stolen” the name of Jesus Christ to cover-up their true faith. Muslims simply discount Jesus as the Son of God and focus on Mohammad.

During the primaries, I said that Romney would never win because he was a Mormon and he needed the Bible Belt to win.
Turns out to be true.


90 posted on 11/10/2012 6:49:44 AM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Iscool

You argue and think like an occupy wall street clueless liberal infant on jobs. Might I recommend the following sites for your enjoyment:
Huffington Post
Democrat Underground
Mother Jones

Enjoy.


91 posted on 11/10/2012 6:50:45 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Consultant Class Have Destroyed America")
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To: JRandomFreeper

drop dead loser


92 posted on 11/10/2012 6:51:02 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SeekAndFind
Those 9 million Americans need a new choice. We all do.

Great article.

93 posted on 11/10/2012 6:52:15 AM PST by EternalVigilance (The only wasted vote is one that doesn't represent you.)
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To: Iscool

You Kiddin’? If there is a next time, I am going to stay home and let you pay.

You seem to enjoy it, so we can do it all over again.


94 posted on 11/10/2012 6:54:55 AM PST by dforest
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
Dude. Smell the coffee.

I was born and raised Southern Baptist in Texas during the 60s...

I married a Mormon (I think she was ex #3).

I don't give a rat's pointy little tail about his religion, except in a Christian sense, where I am required to pray for him.

I didn't vote for him because he was pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro socialized medicine and loves big government. That's his record.

His faith had zero to do about my vote.

/johnny

95 posted on 11/10/2012 6:56:12 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You are the dumbest poster ever on FR. You have no concept of your responsibility of citizenship. You have no idea of the purpose of a vote nor what a vote really is.

Moreover, you are just as much of a moocher and a taker as the obama phone woman. You expect to sit back and have others “sell” you a candidate, which is the same thing as sitting back and expecting Obama stash to pay for your life.

So when you need that operation to save your life, and the obama phone woman’s cousin is the bureaucrat who gets to decide whether you get the operation or whether the obama phone woman gets that operation, I hope that the aspirin you get will help ease your pain while you contemplate how you sat around and waiting for someone to kiss your ass in just the right way in 2012.

Have a nice life. You just insured that it will be shorter than otherwise....


96 posted on 11/10/2012 6:56:12 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Consultant Class Have Destroyed America")
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To: C. Edmund Wright; JRandomFreeper
Then again, I was under the silly notion that a vote was about simply making the best choice of those presented to us.

Those of us who understand the process get this.

The ones who don't are children who think they must be pandered to.

They throw a tantrum because they couldn't come up with a candidate of their own. They flail around looking for the perfect messiah. They are not only stupid...they're lazy and want only to be served...much like the entitlement crowd.

97 posted on 11/10/2012 6:57:19 AM PST by what's up
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To: yldstrk
drop dead loser

I don't expect I'll do that, but I will be voting in 2014 and 2016.

Want my vote? Get over your pout, and run a conservative.

Try not to step on your bottom lip.

/johnny

98 posted on 11/10/2012 6:58:50 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOPe is predictable in its propensity for drawing the one hundred and eighty degree wrong conclusions from the results of any election. This has been obvious for quite some time. We’ve had a few days since this one, and it is clear that this time is no exception.

But there are always a few like McCarthy who get it.

Translating that understanding into practical politics is quite another matter, of course. It will be some time before we know how many have learned the appropriate lessons from the this recently-completed farce of a fake election.


99 posted on 11/10/2012 6:59:15 AM PST by EternalVigilance (The only wasted vote is one that doesn't represent you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

1. Some no doubt show up to vote for the O-Hole in protest to get the revolution started, which is laughable go on the internet to claim such ... this has to be disinformation or real stupid posters.
2. Some showed and never got counted [more likely]
Forget what we do NEXT time, it’s time to hold our pussy leadership soft and perfumed feet to the fire, starting with “that crybaby”


100 posted on 11/10/2012 6:59:58 AM PST by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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