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.
How we miss Jim Talent.
Edit: When Bhoner PASSES
General MacArthur
The title is confusing but are some who didn’t bother to read the entire article otherwise they would have noticed the sarcasm of the author
For the most part, I accept this idea, but there are limits beyond which I will not go.
Mississippi.
Romney would have been held accountable, even the media would have no problem pointing out problems with his administration, as opposed to kiss his feet like they do for Obama.
Can't do that when the GOP-E rigs the primaries and purges the state election committees so that they're favored Chamber of Commerce-approved hacks win.
Case in point---look at what happened to Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia, courtesy of Bill Bolling and Eric Cantor.
And then in Mississippi, when Cochran and Barbour paid black Democrats to raid the run-off and help undermine McDaniel.
It is impossible to work within the system anymore to change it. Period.
Screw the GOP-E!
Replaced with what? Mitch?
Good luck with your Hope and change.
It’s not about who is going to replace Harry Reid.
It’s about replacing Harry Reid .
FWIW, I think Mitch McConnell is a petty, mean spirited, vindictive thoroughgoing a**hole with a list of payback for various Democrat Senators about a mile long and a burning desire to punish them and make them pay for every slight done to him as Minority Leader over the last 6 years.
The though of a Majority Leader McConnell having the power and means to properly settle scores with the more than deserving Senate Democrats makes me smile.
No. Always go to the voting booth and vote for the offices your conscience leads you to vote for while you’re standing there.
Not saying vote Republican at all costs.
Just sit home and pout. You’re not convincing anyone that there’s no difference between Republicans and the rats. Get under you bridge troll. We have an election to win...rats to throw out and hopefully a great Tuesday night watching Chris Matthews lose it.
It’s not a matter with agreeing with candidates for me 80%, 90%, 100% of time time. I would sooner vote for someone I agreed with less than 50% of the time if I felt they really valued human life had integrity, fortunately for the Republicans, the Democrats no where close to that. I won’t vote for someone I don’t trust, period. After what happened in Alabama, I have a really hard time trusting anyone with an R after their name. I am not the unmotivated base, I am the party’s political enemy, since the Republican Party has chosen to make me one through their corruption. The annual guilt trip isn’t going to work. Never again will I hold my nose to vote.
I am now preparing for the worst and you should be too, because things will get much worse before they will ever get better. The only vote I feel I have left is to invest in lead. The Republican Party can go to hell for all I care. It’s over.
I think it's more like a vocal few. It's unfortunate that they write so often that it seems like more. It's hurting Free Republic; just look at how long it takes to complete the fund drives. It's sad that some hate the GOP more than they love their country.
TWO THUMBS UP!
Note that it is near impossible to argue with fools.(And trolls.)
What freeper Kozak is saying is staying home or voting third party is a guaranteed vote for the rats, and that is factual and should be a warning to everyone
The real problem is the mindset that makes people say ‘purity’ is somehow bad. Especially considering we evil purists are fine with 80% and the platform.
They can’t even hold the line on that. Ergo, they are the problem with the liberalization of the GOP. Since the opposite of purity is corruption, guess what they are backing?
Tis the season.
Good post. You are really on to something. I am not amazed that the dem's try to rig the vote. But I am amazed that the GOP does nothing about it. No outrage, no calls for an investigation.
We need a Conservative R Senate, and to not have it swing back anytime soon. To that end, 2014 we need every R possible to get. Conservative Strategerism to lose extreme RINOs, or Ditch-Mitch, only will make it that much harder to keep the Senate in 2016, 2018.
OTOH, there should be a MAJOR battle to take the Senate Majority leadership. Take it away from Mitch, who deserves it not. But, this should go on after Tuesday.
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