Posted on 09/29/2014 4:36:00 AM PDT by rootin tootin
Democrats think conservatives in general, and Tea Partiers in particular, are stupid. Here’s how to reinforce that belief: Sit out the 2014 congressional elections because your favorite candidate lost his primary bid to an establishment Republican. If you live in Kansas, for example, you can suck your thumb while Democrat ringer Greg Orman beats Republican Senator Pat Roberts. If you’re a Kentucky conservative, you can stay home and bitch about Mitch while Alison “Rubberstamp” Grimes heads to Washington. If you’re in Mississippi, you can stay mad at Thad and allow Travis “no repeal” Childers to win. That’ll show those RINOs!
It isn’t necessary to speculate about the results of such petulance. We are already suffering the consequences of a similar tantrum. As R. Emmett Tyrrell pointed out last week, about 4 million conservatives declined to participate in the 2012 presidential election: “The wise psephologists tell us that these conservatives did not like Romney. He was too bland for the Tea Partiers.… Frankly, I do not know why they stayed home given the choice between a community organizer and a former governor.” Regardless of the rationale, those abstainers are responsible for the domestic corruption and foreign policy disasters of the last two years.
And, if they engage in similarly sophomoric behavior in November, the results will be even more catastrophic. If Harry Reid remains in control of the Senate, he and his White House accomplices will “fundamentally transform” the nation into a social democratic hellhole.
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Great post. Thanks.
Though an accurate analysis of some on this site, this is not a good analysis of most of the TEA Partiers that I know. It does no good to fight the battles you can’t win, and in fact, it does a lot of harm. Most of the TEA Party is made up of adults who accept reality and live on to fight the next battles. They are most often, the adults in the room.
The Primaries were the time to fight amongst ourselves. WE HAD BETTER HANG TOGETHER IN THE GENERAL OR WE WILL HANG THE COUNTRY OUT TO COMPLETE DESTRUCTION.
Voting for someone who does not share your views is like kissing your sister.
And I’ve seen your sister!
I am not happy with Scott Brown the candidate for Senate in New Hampshire on the Republican ticket, and I no longer consider myself a Republican, but rather a Conservative. But, Jean Shaheen, the Abortion Queen and proponent of vote fraud is an unacceptable alternative, and so I will vote for Brown. A half a loaf is better than no loaf at all.
But, keep on sucking your thumb...the RATS love ya, Rube!
Did the Continental army win via direct open field confrontation with British regulars? No, they won mostly through small skirmishes, where even if the outcome went against them, it became logistically impossible for the British to address the use of guerrilla tactics. This is what the Tea party is doing to the GOP for moving against the people, it’s also how we will defeat the leftists. They are surrounded and won’t even acknowledge the reality of their situation, but we are patient teachers.
If you can’t get 100% of what you want in life, you settle for 0%?
So you must have the highest paying job where you work, a spouse that is a “10”, children that are 4.0 students, the car of your dreams, and the most expensive house in your town.
More power to you. The rest of us have learned to be content with something between 50%-100% because we know that is reality, not fantasy.
I’m sure that the usual suspects will soon be sharing their brilliant political strategy with us yet again.
Like the SW Missouri Republicans who stayed home and gave us Claire McCackle.
Shocking to me that every post is in essential agreement with the premise, paraphrasing Shaw, that “staying home to be pure is an active vote for ultimate corruption. Expected the usual irrational flaming, sure it will follow soon tho. I will vote for the most conservative candidate in every race. I don’t understand how anyone can justify what has happened under the current regime and logically walk away from responsibility for it when they sat out the last election. “Evil flourishes” is an absolute reality now, as a result of “good men” doing nothing.
Again, when we vote, we win. But not for long as the policies we ushered in while we held our breath turning blue has had the same effect on the country.
They can stay on the other thread on this article.
THE PRIMARIES ARE OVER. FIRE HARRY REID.
And call out the FR Harry Reid Fan Club wherever you see them.
bump, good read
No, they treat us as if they are an abuser in a horrible relationship, and I am not going take it anymore. And we are supposed to kiss and make up and still take one for the team, I am not going to take one for the team anymore.
I have my own suspicions why they stayed home and I don't want to open that can of worms up, wake up Mr Tyrrell, you know the answer as well....
If any of the above is relevant, then it stands to reason that had any one of the other primary candidates won instead of Romney, Republicans would have won all of those four million absentee voters we keep hearing about. Well, that would mean that all of the Romney voters as well as supporters of other candidates who did not win the primary, would have voted for their 'anybody but Romney' favorite guy. Would not have happened. Those four million non voters, plus some of Romney voters, would have sat out the election for whatever new reasons were determinant for them.
My own opinion is that whatever configuration is made of the Romney-Obama election, until we know the extent of voter fraud, state by state, the only thing that determined the winner was who counted the votes. No doubt in my mind that Mitt Romney, who self financed 20 million dollars of his campaign, loves America and would have been an outstanding President of this country.
Interesting. I recently posted the same thoughts, that we need to take the best of what’s available at the time, and vote to get rid of H. Reid. My a$$ is still sore from the “feedback”. You must have caught them asleep at the keyboard, but I’m sure they will get around to you eventually. Grab the Vaseline while it’s still quiet.
The GOPe sure have you guys roped, tied, and branded ...
“Democrats think conservatives in general, and Tea Partiers in particular, are stupid. Here’s how to reinforce that belief: Sit out the 2014 congressional elections because your favorite candidate lost his primary bid to an establishment Republican”
Here’s another way, Pal: continue the battered wife syndrome and support your establishment Republican masters after every time they knee you in the gut and then kick you in the teeth after you drop to the ground.
Meanwhile, when one of your conservative candidates beats their pro-amnesty, pro-big government establishment candidate in a primary, the establishment Republicans go all out to call them out of the mainstream and not viable.
Now, fall in line and do as you’re told.
With all due respect to Mr. Carlton, this piece is a load of crap.
Once again conservatives are told to bite the bullet, hold their nose, or whatever phrase is used to describe being forced to vote against their principles. And why? Because the party bosses have pulled the tried-and-true-mantra “Vote for this RINO or the Dems are gonna get you!”. Only this year in Miss. the Republican voters rejected the party favorite in the first primary. So, like good RINO Republicans, the GOP allied themselves with the Democrat Party to defeat the candidate chosen by the people. Without directly facing his opponent in even one debate to let the voters hear the differences between him and his opponent Chris McDaniel, Cochran, with the blessing of the RNC, began a smear campaign worthy of any of the politicos that same RNC keeps telling us they oppose. Cochran began by encouraging Dems to cross party lines and stuff ballot boxes. He ran ads bragging about the freebies he’s brought to Mississippi, and more importantly, how those same freebies would be cut back or even eliminated with a McDaniel win. With at least Cochran’s tacit support robo-calls were used in black-majority communities accusing McDaniel and his supporters of racism and of threatening to return to the days of Jim Crow segregation. And in spite of all that, McDaniel still garnered more Republican votes in the second primary than Cochran!
The rest of my fellow Republicans can line up like obedient unthinking sheep and obey their shepherds at the RNC, and just like sheep be shorn. 2 years from now the RNC will tell you to line up again to vote for whomever they’ve selected, and you will again obey your masters. Only you’ll do it without me. This despicable performance by Thad Cochran has shown me that the RNC has now decided that if can’t get their will done with Republican votes, they’ll do it with Democrat ones. This is unacceptable, and I refuse to condone this tactic by once again acquiescing to the Haley Barbours in the GOP. Our conservative votes have value or else editorials like this one wouldn’t starting up before the Nov. election, and this time mine doesn’t come cheap. Until what happened in my state is never allowed to recur, until the RNC returns to its roots and stops being afraid of those beliefs, until we have true leaders more interested in doing their jobs and not merely keeping their jobs, and until the Boss Tweed-like corruption that exists at the leadership level of the GOP is eliminated, that vote will not be wasted again. Period.
P.S. If Cochran wins I have no doubt he’ll retire in a couple of years so the party bosses can choose their own personal choice for Senator. When this happens, I hope all the people who wasted their precious votes on this lame duck remember that they had a chance to have their vote really count, and they wasted it. But not to worry, they’ll be able to waste it again in 2 years...
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