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.
Jumping on some high-horse and pummeling a strawman is not merely selfserving it's also counter-productive to conservatism.
How many Arlen McSphincters do we need to elect before you understand that its not the conservatives harming the GOP--its the so-called moderates!!!!!!!
I live in Pete Roskam's district: an island of red in an ocean of blue. And there are some benefits to living close enough to the Democratic Party nutballs to understand how they think.
Amen. Ditto.
I hate this kind of backward looking crap.
If John McCain were sitting in the White House right now and this Pelosi/Reid health care bill were dropped on his desk, he'd be falling all over himself to sign it into law.
If you have any doubt about that, I have four words for you: Medicare Prescription Drug Plan
I rest my case.
I was one who vowed NEVER to vote for a moron like McLame, BUT I did VOTE for him, but only because Palin was on the ticket. You take her off and all your IMAGINARY GOP Conservatives who stayed home wouldn't have made piss worth of difference. He was a bad candidate, he ran a stupidly bad campaign, and he would have been a weak, vacillating President caving to "his good friends across the aisle.
As for your argument that HE wouldn't have given us healthcare, yes he would have, eventually. All he's ever said was they should start over. But even that wouldn't have mattered since McLame's bug goal is to offer AMNESTY to 30 million illegals, all of whom will be liberal Dem Acorn marxists and will be voting for Obama forever!
McCain is against it because he has a tough primary battle. I could see him trying to set up meetings to comprise and pass something for Obama if he weren’t. We’ll see what he does on amnesty.
I agree with this. I am conservative, and I thought that the continual pounding that McCain took by Limbaugh and Hannity during the primaries hurt our cause. McCain makes me want to pull my hair out at times, but Republicans need turnout by the base to win elections. Going over the cliff with flags flying might be the honorable thing to do, but is it better than the disaster we have on our hands now? I don’t think Reagan would buy into this RINO stuff. He was willing to take what he could get and then come back for more.
Alberta, YOU da man! Or Wo man!
P.S. I support Bill Bennett’s tenant: vote for the most electible conservative Republican running. Votes that “send a message” are BS and counterproductive. (Too bad the Republican leadership doesn’t understand that real conservatives CAN be elected if supported from the beginning...e.g. NY-23.)
Well at least now y’all have screwed up enough guts to actually fight.
Sorry, Rush is WRONG on this one.
If he had voted against the billionaire banker bailout, he might have fared better.
On selling out to the bankers that own the US government, he and Ears were on the same page.
Remember McCain Feingold? Lots of voters did.
Free Republic is a conservative site, not a Republican Party site. Ironic that the following appears just above your comment that is blank;Free Republics Rino Free America Project http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rinofreeamerica/index?tab=articles.
Again, Free Republic is a conservative site, not a Republican Party site.
The writer is correct.
The litmus test put forth by so-called patriotic conservatives is fair.
But NOT when the opponent is a Socialist anti-American Communist.
The dupes who voted for Obama gave us this mess.
And John McCain happily handed over that election to the Marxist. Do the words “You have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency” mean nothing to you?
McCain is a tumor, Obama the malignent cancer spreading from it.
RINOs should be no more trusted than liberal Democrats. Neither stand on principle and NEITHER stand with the People.
Sure, because the shadow of JD Hayworth is starting to overtake him.
There was a reason Republicans lost favor.....they turned their backs on conservatives and settled for liberal lite...John McCain was at the front of the line, he is not worthy of our votes and he and his liberal ilk are to blame for what is happening now not conservatives. I will not support any Rino who wants the same thing Obama wants, just slower!!!
How many Arlen McSphincters do we need to elect before you understand that its not the conservatives harming the GOP—its the so-called moderates!!!!!!!
Isn’t it conclusive that GWB pretty much gave us mcsphincter
by supporting him over the other candidate?
That very well could be the deciding vote for or against Obamacare. One more Senator, even a democrat with brass ones.
But it was not to be. and now for the lack of let’s put it this way, four more RINO’s in the house, or one more RINO in the Senate we are saddled with the worst legislation ever to pass only one side of the legislative branch of government.
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