Posted on 11/08/2006 10:24:16 AM PST by Keltik
The Free Republic, being a private organization, can pull the thread if they want.
We knew this was coming. I do hope all supposed conservatives who helped make this happen enjoy the total wrecking of this country that will take place now. You made your point though, right??? /sarcasm
Sounds like the Dims. It's always someone else's fault, never ours.
"We lost because many Conservative Republicans stayed home ... The Conservatives should realize that for 2008 they should join the moderate GOP wing"
If we want to win in '08, being moderate is not the way to do it.
If you could look a little deeper than this first impression, you might make common cause with them. Texan Ron Paul was a libertarian candidate for the presidency before he became a Texas congressman. He's no adolescent.
Try thos thought on for size: MAYBE if the GOP acted like the conservatives they claimed to be, then more people who are conservatives would vote for them! Did you ever think that some people are not "hold my nose and vote" types? This site is made up of ALL types...some of us hold our noses and vote. Some will never vote against their conscience.
I'll lay it out plain and SIMPLE for you. IF the GOP nominates Rudy in 2008...I will NOT vote GOP! I cannot vote for a pro-abort...no way no how. That is my conscience. I might can hold my nose for other things but that is where I draw the line. Some people just draw the line a little further up the road.
Instead of being mad at Libertarians...you should be mad at the GOP leadership who are making US to have to draw the line IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!
Reagan never made the GOP have to hold it's collective nose and draw a line in the distance to see how far he could push you before you wouldn't vote GOP anymroe.
That is what I expect now. I was sold a bill of goods in 1994...it got cashed last night and there were insufficient funds!
Speaking of adolescents...
I am tempted to ask the mod to pull this thread. As in previous posts I am sickened that many are blaming the Libertarians for losing. Many did vote the R ticket. One minute the Libertarians are marginalized and the next they were so powerful that the Republicans lost. We can't have it both ways and the name calling serves no purpose.
Yeah... how dare they want freedom, liberty, and Constitutional protections for our Rights...
Someone in one of the other threads did some research on voter turnout and their affiliations, etc..
( Wish I could find it again, so I could quote it accurately, but.. )
His findings were that some 22% of the voters in the "moderate" category had decided to vote Dem this time..
They voted more conservatively in 2004, more liberally in 2006..
( These were voters that professed no party affiliations, rep, dem, or lib.. )
Such was the case last night...
There was a "swing" to the left in popular opinion..
It's pretty easy to depend on conservatives, or the republican party faithful to vote with you, but in a mid-term election, with no presidential race on the line, party takes second place to things like issues, broken campaign promises, and just general dissatisfaction with the status quo..
None of those voters stabbed the republican party in the back, or anything of the sort..
They don't "owe" the republicans anything..
It's the other way around..
The republicans owe them.. responsibility, honesty, adherence to their professed principles, backbone...
Power corrupts..
Absolute power corrupts, absolutely..
Personally, I love Librarians.
I agree.
yeah but, I thought the libertarians were .0001% of the voting population and therefore insignificant......................................................................................................
Amen!! Well said! We no longer have to beg for their vote. They can go somewhere else. They no longer have the frienship of the good people here in FR.
I hope they DON'T! It's a good chance to see who among us are the whiny conservatives (as opposed to the whinier liberals). I read an article recently that sums it up perfectly. The guy, who worked for Metzenbaum of Ohio, found that he moved to the conservative side of the aisle because conservatives don't believe in group-think, unlike the other folks.
I bet its a safe bet that Libertarians came out and vote R whereas some R's just stayed the hell home
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