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Why You Shouldn’t Vote
Townhall.com ^ | November 2, 2014 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 11/02/2014 5:33:59 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

How we miss Jim Talent.


101 posted on 11/02/2014 6:40:43 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Edit: When Bhoner PASSES


102 posted on 11/02/2014 6:40:51 AM PST by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: driftdiver
"There is no substitute for victory." Letter to Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., (20 March 1951); read to the House by Martin on April 5.

General MacArthur

103 posted on 11/02/2014 6:41:38 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: outofsalt

The title is confusing but are some who didn’t bother to read the entire article otherwise they would have noticed the sarcasm of the author


104 posted on 11/02/2014 6:41:47 AM PST by Kaslin (He neeIs itded the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
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.

For the most part, I accept this idea, but there are limits beyond which I will not go.

Mississippi.

105 posted on 11/02/2014 6:41:52 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: trebb

Romney would have been held accountable, even the media would have no problem pointing out problems with his administration, as opposed to kiss his feet like they do for Obama.


106 posted on 11/02/2014 6:42:47 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: All
ahhh, patriots vs purists. When the leader of the party avows to crush us in the primaries, he's one of the, what, patriots? When he says WE (meaning you and me) should be punched in the nose, he's a patriot? And you tolerate that because...?

So if the so-called purists don't vote, then they don't have b**ching privileges? Wow, I thought our standards were a little higher than that. Maybe not.

With all the griping about Boehner and McConnell being weak and incompetent, you're still willing to have them "lead" us because they suck less? Of course the alternative could be worse and probably will be.

For thirty years, the mantra has been "once we get in full power" then xyz will change. Well, we did have our chance, and the GOP in typical fashion screwed it up. Why? Because it's what they do. It's the good old boys' club and we're not invited to it. For all the "it's all Kabuki Theater" guys out there, does it matter who's in power if it's all Kabuki Theater? Either it does or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways.
107 posted on 11/02/2014 6:44:13 AM PST by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: rodguy911
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.

Can't do that when the GOP-E rigs the primaries and purges the state election committees so that they're favored Chamber of Commerce-approved hacks win.

Case in point---look at what happened to Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia, courtesy of Bill Bolling and Eric Cantor.

And then in Mississippi, when Cochran and Barbour paid black Democrats to raid the run-off and help undermine McDaniel.

It is impossible to work within the system anymore to change it. Period.

Screw the GOP-E!

108 posted on 11/02/2014 6:44:31 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Replaced with what? Mitch?
Good luck with your Hope and change.


It’s not about who is going to replace Harry Reid.

It’s about replacing Harry Reid .

FWIW, I think Mitch McConnell is a petty, mean spirited, vindictive thoroughgoing a**hole with a list of payback for various Democrat Senators about a mile long and a burning desire to punish them and make them pay for every slight done to him as Minority Leader over the last 6 years.

The though of a Majority Leader McConnell having the power and means to properly settle scores with the more than deserving Senate Democrats makes me smile.


109 posted on 11/02/2014 6:44:44 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Kaslin

No. Always go to the voting booth and vote for the offices your conscience leads you to vote for while you’re standing there.

Not saying vote Republican at all costs.


110 posted on 11/02/2014 6:44:57 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Norm Lenhart

Just sit home and pout. You’re not convincing anyone that there’s no difference between Republicans and the rats. Get under you bridge troll. We have an election to win...rats to throw out and hopefully a great Tuesday night watching Chris Matthews lose it.


111 posted on 11/02/2014 6:45:27 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: Kaslin

It’s not a matter with agreeing with candidates for me 80%, 90%, 100% of time time. I would sooner vote for someone I agreed with less than 50% of the time if I felt they really valued human life had integrity, fortunately for the Republicans, the Democrats no where close to that. I won’t vote for someone I don’t trust, period. After what happened in Alabama, I have a really hard time trusting anyone with an R after their name. I am not the unmotivated base, I am the party’s political enemy, since the Republican Party has chosen to make me one through their corruption. The annual guilt trip isn’t going to work. Never again will I hold my nose to vote.

I am now preparing for the worst and you should be too, because things will get much worse before they will ever get better. The only vote I feel I have left is to invest in lead. The Republican Party can go to hell for all I care. It’s over.


112 posted on 11/02/2014 6:46:42 AM PST by Bill93
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To: Kozak
" lots of people here are in full agreement."

I think it's more like a vocal few. It's unfortunate that they write so often that it seems like more. It's hurting Free Republic; just look at how long it takes to complete the fund drives. It's sad that some hate the GOP more than they love their country.

113 posted on 11/02/2014 6:46:52 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: muir_redwoods
Name a republican senator potentially as bad as Harry Reid.

TWO THUMBS UP!

Note that it is near impossible to argue with fools.(And trolls.)

114 posted on 11/02/2014 6:47:00 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good.)
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To: TexasGator; Kozak

What freeper Kozak is saying is staying home or voting third party is a guaranteed vote for the rats, and that is factual and should be a warning to everyone


115 posted on 11/02/2014 6:47:02 AM PST by Kaslin (He neeIs itded the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
The title is confusing but are some who didn’t bother to read the entire article otherwise they would have noticed the sarcasm of the author.

You're right. The title is confusing.

We need more sarcasm and confusion on FR these days. /sarc /confusion
116 posted on 11/02/2014 6:47:48 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: tenger

The real problem is the mindset that makes people say ‘purity’ is somehow bad. Especially considering we evil purists are fine with 80% and the platform.

They can’t even hold the line on that. Ergo, they are the problem with the liberalization of the GOP. Since the opposite of purity is corruption, guess what they are backing?


117 posted on 11/02/2014 6:48:53 AM PST by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: Norm Lenhart; Timber Rattler

Tis the season.


118 posted on 11/02/2014 6:49:00 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Diogenesis
It is that their votes are NOT COUNTED.

Good post. You are really on to something. I am not amazed that the dem's try to rig the vote. But I am amazed that the GOP does nothing about it. No outrage, no calls for an investigation.

119 posted on 11/02/2014 6:49:32 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Kaslin

We need a Conservative R Senate, and to not have it swing back anytime soon. To that end, 2014 we need every R possible to get. Conservative Strategerism to lose extreme RINOs, or Ditch-Mitch, only will make it that much harder to keep the Senate in 2016, 2018.

OTOH, there should be a MAJOR battle to take the Senate Majority leadership. Take it away from Mitch, who deserves it not. But, this should go on after Tuesday.


120 posted on 11/02/2014 6:49:49 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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