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.
Ditto to Derek Hunter. (The first part of this article is sarcasm - even though many on FR agree with it.)
“... But before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse ...”
You must read the articles to find out what’s in them.
I will swim through ebola to vote on Tuesday even though my state will likely go blue.
Sorry, I meant Mississippi, not Alabama.
Pass the bong dude, I want some! Mitch is going to get payback? Mitch that promised the dems he would return the power harry stripped from the GOP?
Best of luck in your brave new world.
You either like lying or are clueless how elections/voting works. Which is it?
It's only idiotic if you cling to a narrow view-point.
Amputating a healthy limb is evil.
Amputating a diseased limb to save the host is wise.
Amputating a merely damaged limb - one that could be healed - is foolishness (or idiotic to use your word).
You "pure-blood" conservatives are truly cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Now you can argue "I'm not cutting off anything, I'm merely withholding my vote from those with whom I disagree."
Fair enough; but to be consistent, you cannot claim ANY credit - that your vote counted - when the candidates you vote for are victorious.
PLEASE VOTE!
Not voting is a vote for obola and dirty Harry.
Not voting is giving the RATS more years to destroy USA.
Leaving the RATS in control of Congress and a weakened, dwindling Rep presence in Congress, is in effect giving up the war against the destroyer RATS.
Get in people who are more on our side, then pressure them to do the right thing!
The Rep will work as a pack, if they are the majority, to stop/slow down the RATS’ destructive moves.
Ask yourself HONESTLY
- you give the RATS the house and senate now, AND,
- YOU ARE WILLING TO give the White House to Hillbilly in 2016 (if she gets nominated and your ideal candidate is NOT nominated), then what?
Then you will happily continue to withhold your votes until all Rep not to your liking are gone and there is truly, officially 1 Dem party left, then you are free to start your conservative party ???
My vote is counted for the person I cast it for. RINOS are not entitled to it. Take it up with the Founders. Thats how things were designed.
I have no doubt that Cornyn will be reelected. He’s so confident that I haven’t even seen a single campaign ad for him and I’m sure he has tons of campaign cash. So, you missed the point. What if he wins but by a smaller margin than others on the ballot? Will it get noticed?
No one is withholding a vote. We cast it for those that earned it as the founders intended.
No, the GOPe won't hold soetoro accountable for Fast & Furios, IRS, Benghazi, NSA, VA, surrender of Iraq and Afghanistan to the enemy, Bergdahl, arming al queda, voter fraud...
And they won't stop him from granting amnesty to 50 million illegals but when the S does HTF I'll be able to say I tried.
“This idiocy brought us what we have today. How’s that working out for you?”
Grassroots conservatives holding their nose every year and voting for RINO’s as the least objectionable option resulted in nothing but contempt from the GOP establishment and a concerted effort by the GOP establishment to wipe out the Tea Party. This disdain for the Tea Party and grassroots conservatives became more intense after the rank & file delivered the House of Representatives to the Republican Party. In the immortal words of Mitch McConnell in 2014: “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” he said, The New York Times reported, “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”
How’s that working out for you?
You may have thought you tried. In reality your vote for rinos helped them move their agenda forward. Stop doing that.
Please go back to Daily Kos or DU and just stay there full time. We’ll all be much happier, including yourself.
In nearly every referendum an abstinent vote is counted with the “No’s”
It’s simple math...
Same political cowardace every 2 years.
So the prudent man challenges the status quo and goes after the bastards that stole the GOP.
Glad you brought up Mississippi.
I researched it thoroughly.
Haley Barbour is still king there for now. But we exposed everything he did and then some Sowing how barour/bgr his multinational clients seeking fixed votes were all about corruption over and over.I can almost guarantee you his days are numbered in the party. He wont survive much longer and his relatives are too weak to carry on the BS he did this last election cycle. Chris McDaniel is probably not through and he will get another chance. This time it won't even be close if he even has a challenger.
Attorney Mark Mayfield will not be forgotten by many.
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