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.
If you don’t vote for the more conservative candidate you are sending a message. You are saying you want more liberals.
Yup! And the Republicans need to win by A LOT just to overcome the massive rat fraud!
I have a bad feeling we’re all going to be sitting around in a few days asking what the hell just happened.
I’m voting.
I agree 100%.
That takes maturity, doesn't it? :o)
I haven’t voted Sunday since Ronald Reagan!
This will be a fun thread - another loving & lively family discussion...
“There is no substitute for victory.” at 1976 Republican National Convention.
Ronald Reagan
I think it is normal to expect republicans in the north to be RINOs. But there's no excuse for Texan John Cornyn , who is chomping at the bit to pass amnesty.
Yeah, so what goes good with excrement? After all, there’s another sammich to choke down.
No need. The data from 2008 and 2012 is already out there festering. All you have to do is open your eyes and ears and nose. Your “take” is being proved wrong each and every day that Obama and his congressional and regulatory agency and judicial fellow travelers “transform” America.
Olympia Smowe gave us Obamacare by casting the vote to give the Senate Finance Committee the 60% they needed to move it out of committee. No reasonable and sane human could have imagined it would not succeed on the Senate floor when the Dems at the time had the floor. So you have someone who you say is 50% worse than Snowe? On every vote that mattered, all I can remember is that she wasn’t there to keep the wolves at bay.
Snowe always was a progressive, period. End of story.
You left out Mississippi, where the GOP candidate called supporters of his conservative opponent racists and Klansmen and where the Democrat candidate is a conservative.
Get up off your old dead ass and make sure the right guys win in the primaries so we don't have to keep having these discussions year after year.Take on a little personal responsibility for who wins in the primaries which is where it all starts.It should not be necessary to explain to supposedly smart Freepers why the commie dems need to be stopped.
Don’t think that you are voting for a rino.
vote to cancel a vote for a Dem.
Every election cycle we see the same thing. The reference to threats, fear, and invocation of faith to get the rubes to show up and vote for the gop. Sadly, we haven’t seen much begging this year. That’s my favorite part of the routine.
Remember: your vote matters. After all, the party of Nero is vastly better than the wicked and evil party of Caligula. Or something like that.
Comservatives are truly the battered wives of American politics.
Idiotic suggestion. More unlimited powers for Obama or choose a lesser evil?
Voting is a patriotic obligation. I vote in every election and will continue to do so, no matter how much damage Obama, the far left, and complicit RINOs do to our country.
Voting for individual positions is a tricky choice. I vote for the most conservative candidate who (1) is acceptable, and (2) has a chance of winning. When the democrat nominee is polling 15% ahead of the republican, I vote republican if our candidate is a conservative - to show the GOP that I support conservatives. When the democrat nominee is polling 15% ahead of the republican, I vote LIBERTARIAN if our candidate is a big government liberal - to show the GOP that I oppose unconstitutional positions. When the republican is polling within 4% of the democrat, I vote republican unless the GOP chose someone anti-gun - in which case I vote libertarian.
This year, there are republican candidates for governor and for US Senate who fall far short of my first choice from the primaries. However, there are no republican governor candidates in the general election who are so terrible that I would skip voting, and the same is true for US Senate this year. We’ll fight again in the 2016 primaries, and we’ll have a few more victories. We’ll fight again in the 2016 primaries, and we’ll pull some RINOs who like staying in office a little more to the conservative, pro-Constitution side from 2014-2016 as a result. That’s a victory too, if they vote to uphold the Constitution, limit taxes, and protect the Second Amendment, whether or not they are sincere.
So, if a RINO wins but by a smaller margin than a conservative, does that send any kind of a message that gets heard? e.g. Here in Texas, if Cornyn wins but does so by a smaller margin then others on the same ballot will it get noticed?
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