I'm afraid voting only Republican does not make you a patriot. I hunt RINOs, not vote for them. People are too focused on the immediate election. It really doesn't matter if we avoid a Dem if we're just installing someone who won't advance the conservative cause.
I couldn't call myself a patriot if I let the Republican party know it had a monopoly on my vote no matter who it ran. Then why it do anything I wanted? What has the zombie allegiance to the Republican party left us with? John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, 33 years of the legal murder of 47 million children and open borders.
If the GOP wants to ignore conservatives, we will have to make them take notice. Conservatives should have been furious that the party took their money and threw the election away. Throwing my vote away would be to not vote or to hand the GOP my vote. I'm happy to vote for any Republican conservative. But when they don't put one up, I have to vote Constitution Party.
By the way, Obama's all but sure to get the nomination, not Hillary, which is an even darker prospect.
That's what you don't get. We're talking about the difference between electing a person who isn't going to advance conservatism and a person who is downright evil. Sure, I'm no fan of libs, but are Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney gleefully evil? Would either of them fiddle while the U.S. was attacked, like Hillary and her hubby? The answer to both questions is "no."
I couldn't call myself a patriot if I let the Republican party know it had a monopoly on my vote no matter who it ran.
That's a self-serving way to cast the question. Try this: Can you call yourself a patriot if you cast a vote that helps a Marxist and a traitor get into the Oval Office?
As for sending messages, every time we social conservatives send the message to the GOP that we will throw our vote away if we don't get who we want no matter how disgusting, unfit and evil the resulting Dem president wil be we send them the message that they might as well just run a RINO so they can get some swing voters. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What has the zombie allegiance to the Republican party left us with?
OK, let's say that in 2008 10% of the electorate follows your lead and votes CP. What's the result? President Hillary. How many dead babies then? How many lib morons on the SCOTUS? The re-election of Bush got us Roberts and Alito; the election of Hillary will get us another Ginsburg.
By the way, Obama's all but sure to get the nomination, not Hillary, which is an even darker prospect.
First, there's not a bloody chance in the world. One term in the Senate is not going to get this guy anywhere. Second, presumably you're willing to have him as a President instead of Rudy Giuliani. How very wise--that'sll really advance conservatism.