Posted on 03/23/2010 4:38:26 AM PDT by Philo1962
This is an open letter to those who refused to go out and vote for a RINO on Election Day 2008. You have just given us ObamaCare, which (if it is not stopped) will bankrupt America.
The final House vote tally was 219-211. All of the Republicans in the House of Representatives ― all of them, every last one of them, including all of the RINOs ― voted against this bill. In the Senate, John McCain (another RINO you refused to support in droves) is one of ObamaCare's most vigorous opponents. And all of the Republicans in the Senate ― all of them, every last one of them, including all of the RINOs ― voted against this bill. This confirms what I've been saying all along: that ANY Republican is better than ANY Democrat.
If we had won just four more House races in 2008, the final vote would have been 215-215 and the bill would have failed, despite the last-minute stab in the back by Bart Stupak and eight other Blue Dog Democrats.
In 2008, the ten closest House races were decided by an average margin of only 680 votes. For example, in VA-5 Democrat Tom Perriello defeated Republican Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. by only 745 votes. This means that if 2,730 more Republican votes had been tallied in four of these districts in 2008, ObamaCare would have failed in 2010.
And if he had been elected president, John McCain never would have signed this bill.
I'm not saying that we should support RINOs in the primaries. Every effort should be made in the primaries to nominate genuine conservative candidates, with true conservative positions on the issues. But once the die is cast in the primaries, and we're stuck with a RINO nominee, we need to go out and get that RINO elected. We need to donate to his campaign, man phone banks for him, hand out yard signs and bumper stickers for him, and walk the precincts for him.
Because as we have just been reminded, in a way that's too loud and too painful to ignore, ANY Republican is better than ANY Democrat.
I will be supporting Mark Kirk for United States Senate here in Illinois for this reason.
Paulbots in 3...2...1...
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I had been considering posting a similar opus.
Concur.
Fools go where Angels fear to tread. You are going to be eviscerated as soon as the RINO attack squad has their first cup of coffee.
Agree
If you don’t have moral men in there, you get the same problems. It does not matter what party.
McLame would have caved to Pelosi and Reid in 5 seconds. Enough already! The key is to defeat all the McLame’s out there. NO MORE RINOS!
Thanks for the charter of the useful idiot brigade. If you vote for someone just because they have an R, you’re a fool and the pols will not respect you or your wishes. They have to fear you withholding your vote.
Another keyboard commando savior of the world.
Yeah! John McCain and Lindsey Graham forever!
Northern Yankee RINO Lament Ping.
I will vote for any conservative who knows that the way to reform government is not to play nice and compromise with the Dims. I am afraid too many want the media to love them, and the media loves “compromise” (read: caving in to a liberal agenda so as to look enlightened).
McCain's statements since the passage of ObamaCare prove that you're badly mistaken.
This post is right on the money. The voters that didn’t get off their duffs and vote for McCain gave us this mess. Sadly, there are many right here on FR that are guilty. They might as well have voted for Obama. The result is the same.
Mark Kirk is a communist. Congratulations.
Oh, and by the way? Go pound sand.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner, no more calls.
You’re nuts.
BS
What good does comes from Illinois leaves as soon as possible, i.e. Reagan. I couldn't live in a blue state myself, purple is BAD enough. You seem to be OK with it, not sure how you do it.
To all actual conservatives who are left on FR:
This thread, as few posts as it has so far, already contains some fine specimens that demonstrate why Illinois is a one party liberal state.
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