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So, who’s staying home in November if Trump’s the nominee?
Hot Air ^ | February 22, 2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 02/22/2016 10:12:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

I am, says Erick Erickson, and he's not alone. One of the chief coping mechanisms from righties on social media this weekend upon surveying the destruction in South Carolina was to swear they'll never be a Trumpist, even if the heavens fall. I believe Erickson, but I'd also bet cash money that 90 percent of the people saying "HELL NO NEVER HAPPEN" today will grudgingly come around over the next eight months upon being reminded, not on a daily but on an hourly basis, that Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar who'd be in prison if not for her status as the creme de la creme of Washington's elites.

I'm not saying conservative revulsion at Trump isn't real. It is, and I think when it all shakes out in November that Trump will have seen more Republicans stay home for him than stayed home for either Romney or McCain. But I don't think there'll be a third party and I also don't think that some sliver of conservatives staying home will doom Trump's candidacy. Given Hillary's weakness and his own appeal to independents and Reagan Democrats, it's possible that he'd find the votes he needs to win in the center. That would be the final indignity to the conservative movement after having its impotence laid bare for more than a year -- staging a mass boycott of Trump on election day and discovering that Trump can win anyway...

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KEYWORDS: 2nddivisionvet; erickerickson; metoo; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

i’ve often thought that the option of nullifying a vote for a candidate should be present on the ballot.

choose one:
[ ] vote for Hillary
[ ] vote for Trump
[ ] vote against Hillary
[ ] vote against Trump

add all of the votes for and then subtract all the votes against to get the total for a candidate.

it would sure solve the turnout problem we had with conservatives in the last election cycle. ;)


201 posted on 02/23/2016 3:37:46 AM PST by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: CA Conservative
In the real world, most Republicans like the idea of Trump/Rubio. That's the ticket that will bring in a lot of voters who will otherwise vote dem or stay home. Trump is the ONLY one who can stir the imagination of voters.

PS: did you watch the You Tube video of Don Jrs question and answer? Awesome. Don. Jr out there on the campaign trail is Trump's secret weapon.

202 posted on 02/23/2016 3:38:37 AM PST by grania
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To: INVAR

So why even bother? Why not just go about your merry way, live your live in blissful ignorance? There are much happier ways to live life than fighting over politics with morons.

Sounds like something a DUer would say.... ‘we can’t win, the man is holding us down!’.


203 posted on 02/23/2016 3:39:05 AM PST by Spirit of Liberty (Time to go Galt!)
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To: lee martell

Mitt would of done the same as obama, maybe only a little slower. I wouldn’t go on wasting time on that dead horse.


204 posted on 02/23/2016 3:40:32 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: D-fendr

Don’t tell anyone that, Trump is going to save the world.


205 posted on 02/23/2016 3:42:28 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Art in Idaho

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who’s voted in. The left is so deeply entrenched into society that it will take a major effort to right the ship. An effort that goes far beyond voting.

Anyone placing their hopes in elections at this point is either wilfully blind or plain naive.


206 posted on 02/23/2016 3:46:34 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will vote. But not for Donald Trump. I don’t vote for liberals and New York values.


207 posted on 02/23/2016 3:53:04 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Eccl 10:2

Let the cry babies cry.
Trump has appeal to almost everyone.
He will win in a landslide. We don’t need the thumb suckers who sabotaged us and gave us obama twice. They can all go pound sand.


208 posted on 02/23/2016 3:56:45 AM PST by rodguy911 (Sarah Palin our secret weapon --Home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

That’s not what he is saying. He’s saying it’s time Americans acted like the founding fathers.

It’s easy to see the message, it’s just that people lack fortitude nowadays.


209 posted on 02/23/2016 3:57:13 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is something about Hillary that just makes Republican get out and vote. Just sayin’.


210 posted on 02/23/2016 4:03:32 AM PST by Baldwin77
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

After saying a few days ago that I would not vote for Trump in November, I’m back to thinking I probably will. Next week, who knows? Haha


211 posted on 02/23/2016 4:05:08 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: D-fendr

So, your vote if for Hillary or Bernie then. That sounds like a plan.


212 posted on 02/23/2016 4:11:30 AM PST by euram
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To: FreedomForce

Perhaps his Sunday morning nice guy sheek won you over.

The Donald, “I can change into whatever I want.”

If the Donald wins the vote is effectively, the lesser of 2 liberals.


213 posted on 02/23/2016 4:14:43 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will vote for Trump.


214 posted on 02/23/2016 4:15:19 AM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America must vote, and probably eventually indict,
everyone the corrupt, liberal, antiAmerican Erickson supports.


215 posted on 02/23/2016 4:18:25 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I will vote.

Not for rubio or mitt or little paulie boehner.
216 posted on 02/23/2016 4:18:41 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: Eccl 10:2
It has nothing to do with pride, it's about voting for a liberal. Trump is a lying liberal.
217 posted on 02/23/2016 4:19:45 AM PST by texhenry (Cruz is the only conservative in the race)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They made me vote for McCain and Romney. I held my nose and pulled the lever. But I wasn’t voting FOR them, I was voting AGAINST Obama. Those who don’t vote for Trump will be casting a vote foe Hillary. My guess is their feelings for Trump will be overwhelmed with the vision of a Hillary presidency.


218 posted on 02/23/2016 4:23:31 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: grania

No way, no passola on this one. Romney is Romney, period. We can disparage his positions, policies, and personality.

However, no one here can say that we didn’t know what we were doing by staying home. We had four years of Obummer and we couldn’t get past a conservative purity test for Romney so all the whiny crybabies took their ball and went home. Look how well that turned out.

I support Cruz 100%. I will say a prayer and vote for Trump if that is my only way to stop the old socialist, or Bernie.

How many Trump supporters will say the same?


219 posted on 02/23/2016 4:34:56 AM PST by LurkLongley (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam-For the Greater Glory of God)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not staying home no matter who the nominee is.


220 posted on 02/23/2016 4:37:09 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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