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.
Take it up with Washington and the boys a couple hundred years ago. They told us to vote for what we believe in. You might also look up their stance on party politics.
Worth repeating!
Go ahead and post that on the Sunday thread, Rod!
News Flash!!! Staying home or voting third party is a guaranty vote for the rats
“I haven’t voted since 2004.”
May I ask why you waste your time hanging out on a political website?
Your definition of Low life scum bags is exponentially over the top
We are in a war for the direction of the country and so far, our side is getting it's collective butts kicked.
We need to close ranks and win the war because a vote for any Democrat is a vote for Harry Reid and Obama as these two are 100% in control of the Democrat Party. The only way to stop them is to oust Harry Reid and get enough of a working majority in the Senate that power hungry guys like McCain can't form their Gangs of Eight to act as swing vote blocks and spoilers.
After we have won, we can work on purging any Republican needs purging.
First we have to win the war.
Anything else is simply blue on blue fratricide that lets the enemy win an undeserved victory
I guess the effort to crawl from under the rock is just much of a burden
RINO hunting season is primary season. Don’t hunt RINOs out of season. But, come primary time, take your bag limit.
Let’s be GIGA-OPTIMISTIC and say that the November elections result in both Senate and House having more than 68 percent Republican.
Even with such Gigaoptimism, Traitorobamacare would still not be overturn, much less Traitorobama be impeached and convicted.
And in just about every case the Republican candidate will be the more conservative of the two. Go full out no exceptions conservative in the primaries, but be sure that the RAT is defeated in the general. If we don't own it, we can't FIX it! A third party vote will regrettably ensure a RAT win.
So you mean a third party vote is counted for a Dem? You have a responsibility to report that election fraud to the people handling election fraud otherwise you are complicit in the crime Right?
So what's the difference between McConnell and Reid?
The way I’ve explained it to my husband,who feels the same way as the author of the article, is when the dam is bursting you don’t look around for the perfect material to fix it. You fix it with what you’ve got, and worry about the right material later.
Name me a republican senator potentially as bad as Harry Reid.
Well, thanks for nothing.
Keep up the good work.
I’ve been saying this on this web site in one form or another for at least 10 years. Over the past 2-3 years I have been leaning toward believing that a healthy percentage of the “purists” on this web sit are democratic trolls. The gradual slide into irreversible socialism has been like the proverbial frog in a frying pan that doesn’t realize the pan is hot until too late. It probably is too late for us now, but we have to continue to put a good fight to the end. Can you bring yourself to vote for effing Romney or McCain next time? Just maybe?
Just more of the political cowardice that created the GOP of today.
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