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.
And she was not primaried out, because too many of us sat around bitching about it rather than actively opposing her.
Mitch. Bhoner. They FUNDED Reid.
Tennessee’s governor is a RINO. HE WILL BE GOV BY DEFAULT.
It is the 4 Amendments on the Nov ballot we want passed.
YES ON 1, 3, 4 if your morals allow gambling. HELL NO on 2 unelected LIBERAL JUDGES.
#3 stops a payroll tax and strengthens State Constitutional law on NO state income tax.
#4 will expand the lottery or gambling to .orgs, they are not listed, supposedly for Veterans groups. But you know how that camel’s nose under the tent goes. Legislature will be naming the .orgs. So think about it hard before you vote or you could end up supporting a .orgs like Planned Parenthood, depending who controls the state legislature and governorship.
TURN IT UP! YES ON 1
http://youtu.be/_G2rjhmo4v8
AMENDMENT 1
THE UNBORN. Tennessee has Amendment 1 on the ballot for Nov. Planned Parenthood is donating from across the USA to stop us. NO STATE can over turn established Constitutional law Roe V Wade. That has to be done at the federal level.
YES on 1 will allow us to regulate those clinics, make them meet hospital codes, health inspections, and allow for counseling before a decision is made. And the person seeking one to pay for it themselves! PP has pulled out all the stops on lies. As it stands there are NO regulations on these Unborn murder mills.
We are asking Tennesseans to NOT vote for the governor. Due to the weird way it takes to amend our state Constitution. We would need a 2-1 vote.
The less votes the governor who will be governor by default, gets the better chance we have of passing Amendment #1. NO state can over turn established Constitutional law as in Roe V Wade, life of mother, rape or incest. This wording is in Amendment 1 for those who bother to actually READ it. TN is a 8 border state, #3 in out of state abortions. Forcing Planned Parenthood to meet state health codes and hospital criteria and making the person seeking the abortion PAY FOR THEIR OWN, instead of the Tax Payer will go a long ways to shut many of them down.
Amendment 1:
Shall Article I of the Constitution of Tennessee be amended by adding the following language as a new, appropriately designated section:
“Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.”
Is this piece the work of a democRAT? While this country is in a tailspin to the junk heap, some moron is trying to convince conservatives to stay home if their candidate isn’t conservative enough. Bad enough we must contend with another 2 years of Obama’s commie agenda. Getting back the senate would be great to shut up fellow travelers like Reid, Schumer etc. Just getting the senate would help to prevent radical leftist judges from getting elected.
Olympia Snowe voted mostly with the rats, she was a RINO. Angus King is a Independent so much has not changed and you should not be surprised
REALLY????!!!!
If you don't vote your getting the idiot in the White House back again, your letting Reid not pass any bills to further our Country, your letting the IRS get away with “the fifth amendment”, your letting our border remain wide open, your letting the idiot play more golf, should I go ON????
REALLY????
If that's the way you think, then maybe YOU should stay home and not vote, but just remember this one thing: IF YOU DON'T VOTE, THEN DONT_ITCH!!!!!!
It’s good to see a thread with patriots going to be war with the army they have instead of the purists who want to caterwaul and take there little ball and go home.No doubt at all some of these cry babys are democrat operatives trying to suppress our vote.
Great piece......thanks!!! And fear not the Freeper naysayers and their assisting trolls are carrying any weight today!!! The rank and file, Freepers, enmasse...see an sense what is afoot with this coming election!!! I see it in most of the postings today!!! “Our” folks...the good guys & gals of America are gonna turn out in huge numbers come Tuesday...and I hope the changes we see are all positive!!!
If you don’t win it doesn’t matter.
By all means, tell us why a dem operative would suppress the vote of people helping them fund their socialism and grant Amnesty? Because thats what RINOS and their supporters/voters do.
The Rinos sorts already told us they would. Actually they promised it.
And what will change?
So was Reagan right or wrong?
You miss the point entirely.
You want to send a message, but you have no idea to what address that message must be sent.
The message that needs to be sent to the White House on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and to the Senate Majority Leaders Office care of Harry Reid.
Until those two get the message, whatever Cornyn thinks or does is totally irrelevant because ALL Republicans and pretty much the voices of the rest of America are made 100% irrelevant by the monumental insane incompetence and tyranny of Harry Reid.
After he is out, then go after Cornyn. Until Reid is out, Cornyn is about as irrelevant and any guy walking down the street for all practical purposes. About 30% of the Republicans probably should be replaced, but 100% of the democrats MUST be replaced if we wish for this country to survive
The delusion is strong in you.
I will not vote for an open borders anti-American globalist, whether said is a Repub or a Rat does not matter. I won’t vote for them, period. Which is why I will not be voting for Cornyn this Tuesday.
Replaced with what? Mitch?
Good luck with your Hope and change.
Yes politics is corrupt at every level but do you believe their corruption (on the liberal side) is a better place to get back to the founders vision?
Teaching electoral lessons is better done from strength, or do you disagree?
Using elections to teach any lessons is high school games of stupidity.
Louis, we are NOT voting for best glee club member, adult politics is for our republic.
Grow up and “be a big kid and we will let you go to the McDonald's for a McShake after the game on Friday.....”
Sheesh~~~~~
And when Bhoner passed Amnesty as he promised not a week ago, then what? It’s on you. Not Barry, not Reid. You.
They promised amnesty and you vote for those who promise it? It’s on you.
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