Posted on 11/03/2014 8:06:04 AM PST by Bratch
Now back to happy thoughts.
Mitchie-poo channeled his inner Democrat when he said he couldn’t do anything about 0bamacare. Gee, he tried so hard....
If you don’t vote you have no right to go around crying about the state of the Union because you passed up your personal chance to try to change it.
When Inheard that remark by Romney, all that I thought was thank goodness that Romney isn’t in the Senate and doesn’t really have any idea what the Senate will do.
I voted Romney because I thought that he would have been better than Obama. No other reason. Romney is weak in the same way that Bush was weak (and Rand Paul, too) he confuses winning an election with being voted Homecoming King.
It is called voter suppression.
The GOP tossed my decent senate candidate an anchor back in September. (She’s anti amnesty, supports a full repeal of Obamacare and returning power to the states) The idiots sitting out the election are the ones doing the most to help the GOPe.
In any case, its going to be a lot closer race than anyone thinks because the MI GOP is firmly backing her and there is a surprisingly strong ground game going on under the radar.
We can do both.
if the GOP win, and DON’T make good on their promises, then certainly they will deserve to die.
I think the definition of RINO has changed in recent years. Back in the day we used to call them Rockefeller Republicans. Senators like Lowell Weicker, Jacob Javits, Arlen Spector, Olympia Snowe, Jim Jeffords, John Chafee, Charles Mathias etc. And they REALLY were liberal Republicans, mostly from the northeast.
I do not think most GOP senators today are anywhere near this liberal. Sen. Mitch McConnell has a lifetime ACU rating of 96%. Sen. Pat Roberts is ranked as one of the ten most conservative members of the US Senate. To classify these senators as RINOs is simply absurd. Nothing in life is perfect, least of all politics. There is no such thing as utopia or perfection in the political world. One thing the far right has in common with far left is an almost child like insistence on purity. As Ronald Reagan once said, politics is the world’s second oldest profession. We have to work with what we have. Here in CA where I have I live, ALL Democrats are Marxists. No exceptions. I have always voted the straight GOP ticket since I have lived here. Not that every Republican I have ever voted for was perfect. Far from it. But without exception, every single Republican candidate I have ever voted for was much closer to my own personal views than any Democrat. Politics isn’t rocket science. It’s very simple. You work with what you have. There is no time for day dreaming.
But...I decided it is a good year to get rid of local Rats because the dem turnout here won't be very big.
My niece was going to sit it all out, but I got her to get out and just vote against democrats for every office!
Agreed. I’ll be voting. “Not” voting is precisely what the Dems want to see. I’m not rolling over and giving them what they want.
“The conservatives are frogs in the water pot...”
Conservatives are stuck in a situation remarkably similar to that a junkie. At one time, the GOP actually was the party of conservatives. It was great! There was NO question about which party to vote for. At an ever increasing pace, the GOP hardly embodies the conservative principles people of this nation are seeking. So now, the discussion across the country, and on Free Republic in particular, is along the lines of ‘You MUST shoot up this heroin just this one more time and avoid the inevitable pain and deep soul searching. Buy into the illusion that this will somehow bring the satisfaction it used. After all, what are you going to do? Become one of those meth heads?’
I’m appealing to classic liberals and libertarians on the basis that Terri Land is a strong opponent of our DC-centric senate. Leaving more taxes in the state and hands of the people will empower us right here at him.
“Returning the power of infrastructure to the states” is a banner the GOP as a whole would do well to pick up.
I vote absentee and this year I’m hand carrying my son’s ballot. I making sure his vote is counted while he is serving with the Marines. Jerry Brown will probably win, but I want the margin to be as small as possible.
We can argue semantics and individual examples all you want.
My point is that when the Democrat party wins, liberalism wins. But a GOP victory is not necessarily a conservative victory. In fact, the GOP has shown it’s willingness to stomp on conservatives to move it’s own party agenda ahead.
If you look at the results of the US Senate primaries, you might conclude it was a victory of the GOPes over the TPs.
However, what it really underscores is the fact that entrenched incumbents usually win against upstarts. This is especially true in primaries. It has always been that way in American politics. ALWAYS difficult to unseat an entrenched incumbent. The surprise upset of Eric Cantor this year was more of an exception to the rule and a prime example of what can happen when you underestimate an opponent.
An interesting analogy with some truth to it.
But the current political dynamic is so much more complex it’s hard to simplfy. It’s both a Catch 22 and a false Catch 22 at the same time. You have to stop the immediate threat without further empowering the same thing you are fighting. But even that is too simplistic.
But you are proving my point for me. Supporting the GOP, encumbent or otherwise, tends to hurt the more conservative movements. Yes, it hurts the ultra-liberal movements, but what is the ultimate cost?
I’m not advocating against voting or even against the GOP, I’m just trying to pull it out, examine it and work through it rather than just knee-jerk react.
It is just a start. Much work to be done. Or undone in this case.
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