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.
That’s so funny. I have a strong libertarian streak. But in the general election I MAKE MY VOTE COUNT AS MUCH AS IT CAN. Every Rat defeated is one less termite eating away our country. Primaries are where this fight should happen. Not November. Grow the f#ck up.
Norm, I respect what you are saying. This is the election, if we allow the leftists to hold onto their power which warrants their inexcusable abuses, (by the media) no one has a reason to be shocked of what is going to happen. This is the time to vote rejection of the democrats. This is not the time for me to be stubborn. If one can’t vote for the R candidate, you still need to vote because there are other issues to deal with state by state.
Norm, you have to understand, many of us are not voting approval for the republican party; it’s a rejection to stop Obama and Reid. If you care for your country (which I know you do), our vets don’t need more of the same abuses they are having to abide under. Think of the veterans is what I am doing.
Yes, the republican party is to blame because we got the liberal candidate in the past presidential election. 2016, they must be defeated of their candidate choice; so we get the best candidate to turn this government around. You have to play the game with what is out there or give up or take a break and come back to stand up awhile longer.
I will. I am preparing for the inevitable.
Change your country back Tuesday.
Leni
Why do you geniuses keep lying? I vote. I never once said do not vote. Prove the assertions. My vote is not a non vote. It gets counted. the rest is all your liberal propaganda.
I’ve never voted for a liberal in my life. I’ve voted for some weak conservatives, but I sure didn’t help elect Clinton and Obama, you did.
I totally agree. Good luck with those who want to leap over the cliff. The only people I probably would not vote for would be Thad Cochran and maybe McConnell.
Every year is the most important election ever. Every year the same fear overwhelms. Do what you need to but do NOT complain when you get amnesty.
Your vote IS your approval. The vote is the ULTIMATE approval. You cannot hide from it or change the reality of it. You elect RINOS, it’s all on you. Amnesty, the diseases, the deaths those diseases cause, the corruption...all on you.
Either vote for someone in favor of that or vote someone against it. But there is no vote ‘against’ by voting ‘for’.
Cool story Bro.
I’m really curious, what is YOUR solution for taking the country back? Should we continue to elect RATS, cast ballots for symbolic candidates, stay home, wait for our “Dream Candidate”, move to another country or what?
The amnesty is already here, I am afraid.
If the republicans win, the base has to remain engaged and not to give up. I am just one voter, I didn’t give amnesty the go ahead.
They want it. No other explanation. They were promised it by bhoner last week, now this and they demand we elect people who are doing it.
They want it.
Sowing discord is a time honored activity for the far left.
You do your part voting for those that told you that their intent was to pass it. you know. And if you vote for them you approve it.
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