Posted on 11/02/2014 5:33:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Look, I’m not going to lie to you – your vote matters. But let’s be honest, there are Republicans on the ballot who aren’t very conservative. Most of them don’t agree with me on everything and surely don’t agree with you on everything. In fact, many of them are downright awful.
So if you find yourself in a state where the Senate race is close, and you don’t like some of the things the Republican candidate stands for – just stay home.
A message must be sent: We conservatives could not beat all the people we don’t like in the primary, so we’re not going to vote.
That’ll show the establishment. That’ll show the country. That’ll show the future.
So if you’re a conservative in Colorado, don’t vote for Cory Gardner. If you’re in Iowa, show that Joni Ernst what’s what! Live in North Carolina? Who does that Thom Tillis think he is, anyway? From Kentucky? Let Mitch McConnell know who’s boss! Georgia? David Perdue? I don’t think so. Kansas? Teach that Pat Roberts a lesson! Live in New Hampshire? Scott Brown – yuck, am I right?
Look, if conservatives don’t draw a line in 2014, when will it be drawn?
Just because tea party and conservative candidates couldn’t win a majority in primary challenges doesn’t mean they aren’t the majority. It was dirty tricks and the establishment that screwed you … everyone knows that. So show the establishment you won’t take not getting your way anymore.
Honestly, what’s the point of voting for a candidate who agrees with you a majority of the time? Don’t vote. Let someone who you agree with on nothing win, and then next time – in six years – that person comes up for reelection, maybe the Republican Party will come to its senses and let you get your way.
I mean, what would be better for the country – Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader? Obviously Harry Reid. Mitch McConnell is a squish on a few things, wouldn’t run blocker for President Obama and wouldn’t be a rubberstamp for any Supreme Court nominee, or any court, for that matter. Where’s the lesson for the establishment for that?
Sure, I know, the country will have a court system packed with activist judges, and the president will use his magic pen and phone to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and who knows what else, but principle will be maintained. That’s a moral victory, right? Those count for something in politics, right? They have to count for something…
Of course, they count for nothing. Yet that nothing is what many millions of Americans, including many of you (judging by comments on other columns in which I’ve dealt with this topic), are prepared to vote for by stubbornly refusing to vote for a candidate who isn’t “your candidate.”
Sorry, your candidate lost, and your remaining choice sucks. I get it, I’ve been there. But so what! Get over yourself. Everyone who voted in the primary and your choice lost. It happens. It’s part of life. So you’re just going to quit?
If you want to right the ship of state, how did you think that would work? Your one chosen candidate would somehow undo half a century of constitutional disregard in 20 minutes? Of course not. It’s all going to be incremental. Nothing this big turns on a dime. But before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse.
Harry Reid remaining majority leader in the Senate means things continue to get worse. Barack Obama packing the courts with like-minded judges means things will continue to get worse.
There will come a point of no return, where we will tip over that ledge from which there is no coming back. If you stay home, or you cast a “message” vote for some third party nothing-burger, that’s what you’re voting for. That’s what you’ll get, and that’s the country you’ll be leaving for your kids to inherit.
A vote for anyone other than the Republican, no matter who that Republican is, is a vote for Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
You want to purge the party? Do it from a position of strength. I’m all for a battle royale for the soul of the Republican Party, but not until AFTER the Democrats are vanquished.
Tuesday, go vote. Vote for the Republicans. Send a message that you are not a moody, unreliable person who will take your ball and go home if you don’t get your way, but that you accept your party’s primary decision. It’s a decision you don’t like. It’s a decision you’ll fight in the next primary if necessary. But for the good of the country, you’ll live in “now” and work for the future.
Anything else is a vote for progressives, and anyone who does that is no conservative.
Yeah lots of people here are in full agreement.
Hope they enjoy 2 more years of Reid.
Worth repeating
A vote for anyone other than the Republican, no matter who that Republican is, is a vote for Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
don’t vote, don’t complain....
Nonsense.
The enemy is corruption in both parties at every level. The leadership of the Republican party has demonstrated no willingness to even begin cleaning up government. They are complicit and only interested in maintaining their privilege.
That is my take. Prove me wrong.
This should have been the headline.
We traded Olympia Snowe for Angus King in 2012 here in Maine. Despite her center of the road voting record, Angus is 50% worse. It does matter, and sometimes you need to be happy with what you have because the alternative is worse.
We have learned on Free Republic that first you boast about principle, then you boast about not voting and then you must defend your self righteous self esteem by continuously boasting about all three. Mean while the boat sinks
I’m all for a battle royale for the soul of the Republican Party, but not until AFTER the Democrats are vanquished.
HERE HERE and AMEN!
“Hope they enjoy 2 more years of Reid.”
Reid is retiring in 2 years?
Harry Reid likes your post.
Two words: Ross Perot. Hold your nose and pull the lever.
The problem is not that people do not vote.
It is that their votes are NOT COUNTED.
This year, “calibration errors” already have shifted
a few % to Democrats ... using criminal techniques now
KNOWN before the election.
Criminal illegals will AGAIN be permitted, encouraged,
and abetted, to vote multiple times.
The DO”J” lawyers will laugh in their offices
at this, and as black panthers AGAIN keep white voters
from the polls by force and assault and battery.
The problem is Election Fraud and SOP dirty tricks
by the DO”J” and Obama to gin and rig the election.
Rinos are a political necessity in many congressional districts. I know this opinion grains against the politicos who demand ethical purity, but we must acknowledge that the seats are decided by voters who are sensitive to what they view as extremism. That’s why we have rinos.
Until we can educate the voting block, we must deal with its lack of knowledge.
Any philosophy that helps the Democrat party is the devil’s work. Wake up and vote against the Democrats - Don’t help them.
This idiocy brought us what we have today. How’s that working out for you?
Hint to Republican Party leadership: Quit sucking, and your toadies won't have to write these silly articles any more.
Or, “A vote for a RINO is a vote for Barack Obama and Harry Reid.”
OK, Mr. Foxwell...but we don't begin to change/get this country back by not voting and therefore keeping the government in the hands of the fascist Democrats.
We begin by putting Republicans back in, where we can, and then storming their offices and DEMAND that they do the will of their constituents.
At least, with the Republicans in office...we have access. With the communist Dems, there is zero access.
Staying home on election day...?? stupidity.
Which is why BO got reelected.
Sorry, but we need to win the Senate
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