Posted on 10/18/2014 4:45:34 AM PDT by chrisnj
Many conservative voters are disillusioned at the Republicans for not standing up for their principles, for compromising with the Democrats, for having no spines etc. etc. They vow not to vote for the Republicans, or outright vote for the Democrats, to send them a message, to teach them a lesson. I think this kind of message/lesson serves no purpose but to cut off your own supply of oxygen.
Almost all the Republicans rejected obumbocrap (obamacare) but Harry Reid and his crooked Dems jammed it through deviously. The House Republicans have passed many legislations to repeal obumbocrap but Reid et al killed them all. The House Republicans have passed many good legislations but Reid and his crooks buried them all. The media blasted the Republicans on all their good constitutional/conservative acts, but remained silent on the Democrats' constant acts to destroy the constitution. This is a known fact and all of us always complain about it. Yet we are not showing any understanding of the difficult situations facing the House Republicans. While the Dem voters are behind their Dems 100%, we are demanding perfection while offering no help. We blame the Republicans for this and that but we are not working hard to create an opportunity or situation where they can stand on their principles and serve us faithfully. Why don't we vote them into majority in both House and Senate, so they have more control and feel less pressured to compromise, but more encouraged to listen to us to enact constitutional legislations for the good of the country. This is not excuses for the Republicans' non-performance. It is simply a fact that a good person can only do so much under difficult situations! We should understand that it is human nature to be rather weak, especially when under pressure. But given the favorable situations we are more likely to stand up taller for our principles. Remember when the Republicans were the majority in both Houses - even with a Democrat president Clinton, Congress was able to serve the people well! So if we are able to vote the Republicans into the majority, we just might be able to influence them into reversing the course to get our country back on the right track. Considering that many people have awaken and patriots are much more enthusiatically engaged in shaping government policies, we can realistically hope to get better leaders who will listen to the people again. All we need to do is unite and vote the crooks out but vote the acceptable albeit imperfect Republican candidates in, then work hard to influence them...
Certainly, with rampant voter fraud, ignorant and low-information voters, AND, the conservatives who vow to stay home or vote for the Dems, there is no hope that the Republicans will be in control of both Houses. It was said that those conservatives who wouldn't vote for the Republicans are part of the reasons why the Dems won the elections. So these conservatives are in effect cutting off the supply of oxygen to their own hopes (and our hopes)!
History suggests that the Republicans are more constitution-abiding leaders. We need to create the opportunities for them to abide to the constituion - by voting them into majority and then pressuring them into serving the people the way they should.
Maybe we were wrong. Maybe there is something to the whole becoming a God thing. Because clearly the POS has the powers to erase peoples memories or block entire chunks of his time in office out completely.
Because there’s always hope that you’ll someday actually help conservatism instead of hurting it.
Coming from a guy that defines ‘conservatism’ as voting GOP no matter what? The odds of me coming around to your idea of conservatism is about nothing. In fact, I intend to do everything I can to destroy your idea of ‘conservative’.
But you should know that I actually collect all the crap you people accuse me of. So far it has filled the bottom drawer of a file cabinet over the years.
And people say I should get a hobby....sheesh.
You keep making false accusations. back it up sport
It’s bigger than advancing conservative goals. I’ll vote for anyone that advances sober clarity, and sanity.
If it gets so bad, we won’t bounce back easily in the next 30-50 yesrs, if we can at all.
Where to begin? Did you ever tell anyone to vote for a repub because the Dem was worse? Yes or no?
“It’s bigger than advancing conservative goals. I’ll vote for anyone that advances sober clarity, and sanity.”
One and the same.
you have no idea what a vote is for. I can’t waste my time educating you.
Yes, you wasted your vote.
Romney was very flawed, but Johnson was a joke. Any claim you had to any kind of high ground is blown away because your libtard candidate was a friggin idiot.
But you do have some sweet blues and jazz.
;)
Heres one from a couple hours ago
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driftdiver to Norm Lenhart
Your actions have helped leftist candidates win. That is offensive to me.
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So by voting for conservatives, I have empowered leftists. It offends you that I promote and vote for conservatives. You said so.
Why is someone offended by conservative voting lecturing anyone on FR exactly?
He seemed far more coherent in his interviews than Romney did.
you have no idea what a vote is for. I can’t waste my time educating you.
Yes, you wasted your vote.
Sure I have an idea — it's to put someone I think will represent my views into a position of influence.
I was unconvinced that Romney would do that, period. (In fact I am convinced he would actively work against my views, but that's because his politics align far better with Liberal
than anything else.)
Only someone who smokes more dope than Johnson (which is a shit load) would think that. Back to your bong and your mama's basement troll.
keep trying, someday you’ll be relevant
night woogums.
Lamar! is up this year. He is the 4th-most left-wing “Republican” Senator hailing from one of the most Conservative states. I’m not voting for him... again.
Thanks for playing.
first intelligent thing you’ve said
BTW, sorry for the swearing and name calling in that post. That was way over the line on my part. I apologize.
There's a lot of truth there — 
But that's the thing — those of us that aren't on-board aren't doing it because they're not perfect, we're doing it because the candidate being presented is unacceptable.
Romney, for instance, is a liberal statist… and we were supposed to vote for him because?
No, voting Republican because of Republican is just as idiotic as voting Democrat because of Democrat — heck, voting Democrat is actually smarter because they advance their goals, something that we've not seen the Republican party doing. (In fact, we've seen them [the Republicans] advancing opposition to their stated platform planks.) … it makes no sense to vote for those who are actively striving for things that you don't want and then complaining when your goals aren't being advanced.
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