That may have been me, though I didn't apologize -- I don't offer apologies except in extreme personal circumstances and I NEVER expect them nor do I give any weight at all to an apology presented because it was demanded; I think demanding apologies is usually an act of vanity and that an apology delivered because it is demanded is a charade.
THAT SAID -- I have often posted here that I learned my lesson with Schwarzenegger, and am applying what I've learned. Voting for liberals is a bad move. I didn't vote for McClintock because I thought it would help Bustamonte -- "be the same as a vote for Bustamonte," does that sound familiar? If I had it to do over again, I'd vote for McClintock even if I knew full well Bustamonte would win, because Bustamonte in the long run would have done less damage, I believe, than Arnold.
This will the be the FIRST EVER election in my life, and I've been voting in every election since I came of age in 1976 and have NEVER declined a Republican on ANY ballot, EVER --- this will be the first time I'll decline voting for a Republican, let alone at the top of the ticket. But I DON'T VOTE FOR LIBERALS. The last liberal I voted for was Meg Whitman, and at that, I chickened out, because I believe even now that had Whitman won, she'd be doing more damage than even Jerry Brown because she is a Republican who, like Romney, buys the whole global warming claptrap and is a pure statist at heart, but, also like Romney, fools naive Republicans into thinking otherwise because she's been a "successful business executive." Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Michael Eisner -- three of the biggest liberals on the planet -- have been successful business executives.
ABO is an affliction and I pray that conservatives and Republicans get over it before November. Voting for a liberal, no matter what party he belongs to, guarantees a BAD OUTCOME.
We're going to get a liberal statist either way -- I'm going to use my vote to weaken the victory of whichever statist wins; I'm voting for a plurality. The last two times we had a president elected on a plurality, conservatives made significant moves forward in Congress.
Palin's "Dead fish go with the flow" -- voting for Romney is the path of least resistance. It is going with the flow, and Palin disappoints extremely. Romney will take folks exactly where all the dead fish end up.
Thanks for being willing to learn.
Is there anything we could have said at the time that would have accelerated your learning curve? It’s applicable to today’s situation.
There are RINOs & CINOs everywhere on Free Republic now. They’re in the majority. JimRob might as well call this FreeRepublican.com