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God Save Us from the Loud ‘I’m Staying Home This Year’ Conservatives
National Review-Campaign Spot ^ | 9-30-2014 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 10/01/2014 3:18:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing

NATIONAL REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 12:34 PM

God Save Us from the Loud 'I'm Staying Home This Year' Conservatives

By Jim Geraghty

A few thoughts from the middle of the day . . .

God save us from self-professed "conservatives" who will announce they'll stay home on Election Day as a demonstration of their power.

Because as we all know, you become more influential in politics and government and public life by staying home and doing less.

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Does the "I'm staying home" crowd apply this to everything in life? "I don't like the way the company is run, so I'm not going to work."

"Honey, I'm just not happy with your performance as a spouse, so I'm going to be less active in the marriage until you improve."

"Kids, I'm disappointed with your performance in school. Until you improve, I'm ignoring you."

The thing is, I wonder how often the "I'm staying home this year" crowd voted before. In fact, I wonder if they ever vote.

I don't understand the "I've never been more fearful for the future of this country, but I'm not willing to do anything about it" mentality.

Ronald Reagan is not walking through that door, folks.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chamberofamnesty; gope; karlrove; reincepriebus; rinos; rinos4amnesty; rnc; vichyrepublicans
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To: OneWingedShark
Attributed to Albert Einstein:

IT don't take no rocket surgeon to figger THIS out!

721 posted on 10/04/2014 5:04:07 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: bert
blind faith in your own belief is a losing strategy

Not THIS one!


 

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”


722 posted on 10/04/2014 5:07:38 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: INVAR

OOOoooh!

You got the Number!


723 posted on 10/04/2014 5:08:59 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: Enlightened1

Reflecting on the past election, it was conservatives that lost their own effort. There was no conservative candidate. There were several. That several ability reflects the fact there is no “conservative “ agreement.

There is internal conservative dissention. That dissention was evident, perhaps most evident, on Free Republic where posters came near to blows arguing minor points sometimes supported by Bible verses. Where there is no single voive or agreement there can be no primaried conservaative candidate.

There is great agreement that the GOPe powers are at fault. The fact is, conservatives chose to disagree about what they believe in most and thus failed to put forth a vaible candidate.

If the GOPc continues to fight over trivial internal issues, they will never be capable of fielding a candidate to win the primary.


724 posted on 10/04/2014 5:09:39 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert

Well the GOP leadership better find a Ronald Reagan in their ranks. I have a hard time believing there is not one in a country of over 300 million people.


725 posted on 10/04/2014 5:12:33 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: bert
The GOPc will never include Jesus Christ as a leader and thus will never be acceptable to many here.

CaChing!!!

We have a winner!

726 posted on 10/04/2014 5:14:32 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: Enlightened1
Well the GOP leadership better find a Ronald Reagan in their ranks. I have a hard time believing there is not one in a country of over 300 million people.

If there is the GOP establishment will hunt them down, crush them, and make sure they're never hear from again.

727 posted on 10/04/2014 5:15:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: dware
I say screw it. Rip the bandage off quickly, now, and get us to where we're headed before I'm too damn old to put up a good fight.

AMEN!

728 posted on 10/04/2014 5:15:47 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: itsahoot
The only way they could have affected ObamaCare was to withhold funds for the implementation of it and Boehner refused to do that.

NO one wants the You hate CHILDREN!!! albatross around their neck at the next election!

(Considering how we manage to kill off one million future Americans before they're born every year; I, for the life of me, cannot figger how Democrats and Liberals can claim they they LOVE children...)

729 posted on 10/04/2014 5:19:10 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: sickoflibs
My biggest issue with the Palinistas is that they tied up a large % of FR threads for almost a year posting about a 2012 Palin run that was not going to happen.

My biggest issue with the Mittbots is that they tied up a large % of FR threads for MANY a year; posting about a man whose chosen religion was a SURE guarantee to turn off a LARGE percentage of voters!

730 posted on 10/04/2014 5:21:30 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: OneWingedShark
Citing citizenship statutes is of questionable worth because a normal act of the legislature cannot alter the Constitution (that is it cannot define/redefine “Natural Born Citizen”).

Where is natural born citizen defined?

731 posted on 10/04/2014 5:21:38 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: trubolotta
Cruz’s mother is an American citizen.

So was Obama's.

732 posted on 10/04/2014 5:22:27 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: bert
Although I feel certain you will not expend the effort, were you to study the actions of the House in recent years, you would notice that in spite of the hated Boehner, they voted to repeal Obamacare 41 times. They made efforts to shut off the debt ceiling and on and on.

They voted to repeal Obamacare because the House knew it would go nowhere in the Senate. I suspect that if the GOP takes the Senate you'll never see another repeal voted on again.

733 posted on 10/04/2014 5:26:04 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: OneWingedShark
He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into actual service of the United States. He shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions.

When (if?) we EVER stop using the language of the left, and start ACCURATELY stating Border Invaders are what these illegal aliens, undocumented children and temporary workers are; THEN we might get somewhere!

734 posted on 10/04/2014 5:26:55 AM PDT by Elsie (He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into)
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To: OneWingedShark
...that promise saved me from the shame of voting Romney.

There appears to be NO shame for those that continue to ENDORSE Romney to this day!

735 posted on 10/04/2014 5:29:22 AM PDT by Elsie (He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into)
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To: sickoflibs

I’ve heard that melody; wafting through my window from time to time...


736 posted on 10/04/2014 5:30:15 AM PDT by Elsie (He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into)
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To: DoodleDawg

you are citing the dogma that is pretty much baseless


737 posted on 10/04/2014 5:51:04 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Darksheare; OneWingedShark

Voting for RINOs is like drinking a glass of wine that someone urinated in.


If we did what we needed to do several election cycles back we wouldn’t be in this mess now!


738 posted on 10/04/2014 6:24:14 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: DoodleDawg; Enlightened1

“Well the GOP leadership better find a Ronald Reagan in their ranks. I have a hard time believing there is not one in a country of over 300 million people.”

If there is the GOP establishment will hunt them down, crush them, and make sure they’re never hear from again.


When Reagan ran against Carter the GOPe tried their damnest to stop him. Thank God they failed!

If Reagan ran today a the GOPe and the FR RINO contingent would mock him and call him “unelectable.”


739 posted on 10/04/2014 6:24:14 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: bert
you are citing the dogma that is pretty much baseless

We'll see.

740 posted on 10/04/2014 7:23:27 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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