Posted on 11/07/2020 10:18:29 AM PST by kiryandil
Weigh in.
Do you vote Republican as a 'Republican voter always', or do you vote Republican as 'the lesser of two evils'?
I think our Republican leaders need to get a load of the way we think on Free Republic as REAL conservatives.
And so do we at FR.
This thought came to me in the aftermath of the election.
I'm pretty active on Twitter, and I saw numerous people calling themselves Republicans who obviously believed they were Republicans - but hated Trump because they'd been brainwashed by the Media. These people are politically naive, of course - while believing that they're politically astute.
These Republicans actually believe that things will go back to the two-party system after this election.
My belief is that the 1992 Perot-type voters [deficit hawks/small government types], who were nearly 20% of the vote that year, moved to support the Republican column in the following elections. I'm one of those.
If the Republicans, who take these people for granted, lose that much of their base, they will RARELY win seats at the national level again.
I've been watching the DC Pubbie kabuki show for 20+ years. The Republicans are NOT friends of the small government, fiscal responsibility people.
President "Toto" Trump pulled the curtain back on that little game, and there's no going back.
If the Republicans cut and run on this fraudulent election fight, I've seen enough.
Let the Democrats have it all, and watch the fun begin with a REAL Resistance.
I am a Trumplican. No longer a republican.
I voted for Perot in 1992, but realized that I needed to join a team after The Pantload got in.
If they thought Trump was a problem before, wait till he’s a free agent.
We’ll keep the Senate. We have the Court. And it will be a bloodbath in 2022.
Definitely lesser of evils!
If the Pubbies cut and run from this fight, will you turn out for them in 2022?
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”You ever read this book? It was warning about which way the GOP was going even back in the 1950s.
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
Lesser of two evils.
if they steal this election, and the R’s do nothing, i’m never voting for them again.
I’m an “I” and before Trump, my last presidential vote was for Buchanan on the Reform party ticket. Before him, Perot twice. It’s unlikely I’ll vote again unless a new party forms.
Like you, I voted for Ross Perot; because I knew him to be a great American who could call a spade a spade, other than that, I’ve never voted for anyone not a Republican—— seeing what the Republican leadership amounts to in this country today,,,,,,, that WILL change. I will not support a spineless coward again.
I take it that you're a dyed-in-the-wool Republican.
What will you do when you look on either side of you and see that your fellow conservative "lesser of two evils" soldiers have struck their colors and left the field of battle?
We are 15% of the Pubbie base.
Let them try to win a national elective seat without us.
Lesser of two evils.
I am with you. 99% of the “Republican” Party are spineless, gutless pansies who are afraid of their own shadows. They have even less guts than your garden variety RAT bastard.
Agreed!
I’ll be polite and just say you are completely wrong in your assumption.
Lesser
I’ve never liked em
It’s a southern thing I guess
I voted Republican as the lesser of two candidates.
Until Donald Trump.
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