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How Should a Conservative Vote?
Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2016 | Robert Charles

Posted on 02/22/2016 3:43:51 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Agree


21 posted on 02/22/2016 4:01:47 PM PST by theoilpainter
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To: Kaslin

No battle plan survives the first shot intact.

We’ve been shot at for 230 years. The Founders wouldn’t even recognize what passes for the Constitution today.

When you can’t run, you walk. When you can’t walk, you crawl.

Purity is necessary to pass college tests. The enemy passed those same tests. Not being able to find perfect candidate is not an accident.

Patton had poor social skills. He also had a foul mouth.

Muslims want you dead - now.

Democrats want to bring in millions more Muslims.

Do the math.


22 posted on 02/22/2016 4:02:49 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: theoilpainter
My national vote means nothing anymore......

Four fake, dead or illegal votes will take me 4 to 1.....

My primary vote is a joke...the "race" is over...by the time I can vote.

We are saddled fresh...and put away wet.

I think...I will be totally screwed by Trump, and or Rubio, Cruz...I trust no one...running. I trust Trump the least...

They all will game the system...None of them can be believed..and when they are called on it..they will become uber politicians...The things we've heard over and over, and over again...!!

I've gone to believing in myself..and my family..and close friends. They I can believe..and trust.

23 posted on 02/22/2016 4:02:55 PM PST by Osage Orange (Nowadays we are just Central America with snow.)
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To: Kaslin

No battle plan survives the first shot intact.

We’ve been shot at for 230 years. The Founders wouldn’t even recognize what passes for the Constitution today.

When you can’t run, you walk. When you can’t walk, you crawl.

Purity is necessary to pass college tests. The enemy passed those same tests. Not being able to find perfect candidate is not an accident.

Patton had poor social skills. He also had a foul mouth.

Muslims want you dead - now.

Democrats want to bring in millions more Muslims.

Do the math.


24 posted on 02/22/2016 4:03:08 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: soycd

It’s very unpopular to say but you are right.

The Constitution says natural born citizen and it comes before any one man.

Born here of citizen parents.

Sorry if it hurts anyone’s feelings that your guy isn’t one, but Barry Soeotoro should be proof enough of the wisdom of the requirement of someone who is solely a US citizen and nothing else.
He told us he was born a British Subject.
Who believes the founders would have thought him eligible?


25 posted on 02/22/2016 4:04:36 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Raycpa

Pencil marks can be erased by someone however


26 posted on 02/22/2016 4:04:40 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
If the so-called conservatives had not stayed home in the general elections of 2008 and 2012 that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania would have never been elected or reelected

I disagree. Every one of them could have voted, and the election would have turned out the same, imho.

27 posted on 02/22/2016 4:06:38 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I could not have said it any better as you did.


28 posted on 02/22/2016 4:07:11 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: soycd

Anti-mozlem and anti-international trade treaties that impoverish the US and subject us to foreign laws.


29 posted on 02/22/2016 4:07:44 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Kaslin
Decide exactly what it is you're trying to conserve.

Vote for the candidate that stands to cost you the least of that.

30 posted on 02/22/2016 4:07:49 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Kaslin
A Conservative, as any voter, should vote for whoever they want to vote for, and unless they feel the need to divulge, it`s nobody else`s business but that voter`s. In other words it`s a noneya, yeah, none ya business!
31 posted on 02/22/2016 4:08:09 PM PST by nomad
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To: Kaslin

Isn’t this article going to be totally irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of Trumpsters?

“Conservatism” would seem to mean nothing to most of these kind souls, who fall metaphorically on their knees to worship a Man on a White Horse, a Dear Leader who will solve our complex problems with his magic elixir of insults, profane bullying and a skilled bluster he has perfected via years of acting on “reality” TV.

Still, thanks for posting. I always enjoy learning more about Russell Kirk.


32 posted on 02/22/2016 4:08:57 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“That’s 720 degrees away from Sanders.”

LOL, 720 degrees... so basically the SAME point. Are you admitting that Trump is basically same as Sanders with extra loop(hole)s?


33 posted on 02/22/2016 4:09:41 PM PST by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: Kaslin
From Russell Kirk's wiki page:

Kirk developed six "canons" of conservatism, which Russell (2004) described as follows:

Russel Kirk and Robert George were of the same mind when it comes to natural law, and Robert George was Ted Cruz's thesis advisor at Princeton.

34 posted on 02/22/2016 4:10:23 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: fireman15

Exactly. Right now there are people claiming to be “Conservative” while supporting religious charities trying to bring more of these illegal democrat and religiously retarded welfare seeking trash.


35 posted on 02/22/2016 4:10:41 PM PST by soycd
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To: Talisker

Vote for Trump and make America great again. :-)


36 posted on 02/22/2016 4:13:17 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kaslin

Robert Charles channeling Russell Kirk, who says “I May Be Dead, But Vote for Ted”.
http://townhall.com/columnists/robertcharles/
I suppose he’s hoping for another appointment from Uniparty’s GOP faction.
Bob that is.


37 posted on 02/22/2016 4:13:18 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Trump supports border security, trade, and defeating Islamists. That's 720 degrees away from Sanders.

Donald Trump: Here's the one area where Bernie Sanders and I agree

Donald Trump said Sunday that there's one issue on which he and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) agree: trade. . .

38 posted on 02/22/2016 4:13:36 PM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Kaslin
an American leader must have mastery of the Constitution, of the Congress and Supreme Court, of the complex - in order to succeed. I leave it to the reader to assess who that candidate this year may be - but in all events, think about it.

It's been known since the Declaration of Independence that the basic fundamental principle of rational politics is protection and preservation of natural rights.

39 posted on 02/22/2016 4:14:13 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You do know that’s the same direction as Sanders, right?
Just checking.


40 posted on 02/22/2016 4:14:36 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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