Posted on 04/12/2006 1:07:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
We’ve all seen the e-mail sent out days before an election: “Democrats vote on Tuesday, Republicans vote on Wednesday. Don’t forget to vote! Wink, wink.” Or vice versa. Republicans can be just as juvenile. Generally speaking, such “friendly reminders” are sent as a joke, which then may or may not actually trick a few people. Probably those who are tricked are better off not voting anyway, but that is another point altogether. (In case you haven’t voted recently, everyone votes on Tuesday.)
But there seems to be a new “Republicans vote on Wednesday” taking form in time for the 2006 election. This effort targets grassroots conservatives known for their passionate views about issues who may be open to a grassroots voting rebellion. But the effort is being led, or at the very least aided, by liberals pretending to be grassroots conservatives, as opposed to actual grassroots conservatives themselves.
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But the pretend-conservative act is being carried onto a whole new playing field, one that has become wildly influential over the past few years and one that does not stand to be instantly recognized as a fake. That playing field is the blogosphere, which is then used in conjunction with massive e-mailings to “spread the word” (as one e-mailer insisted I do to my readers/e-mail list) to other conservatives.
The concept is the same: the blog or e-mail claims, first, that the said writer has been a conservative for years and that they have “had it with Republicans.”
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Excellent observations.
We need someone with a database capability to gather the walk on water/Hate GW conservatives to see how many of them are here and who they are.
That old 2000 thread was very interesting. Some of the anti GW posters in that thread are still around posting their garbage. A lot have been banned. One wonders, how many of those are "born again" as the Really True Conservatives on Free Republic.
LOL! We will be going to bed in the sunlight before long!! It stinks.
Guess I'd better vote for a lowlife Indiana Dem candidate this fall in retaliation. /s
I am not nuts about Daylight Savings Time. I would like it better if we were on Chicago Time, but I figure I will get used to it, just like everyone else in the country. I had to explain the toll road deal to my sister because she had listened to the "interpretation" she heard on the public radio station. HA!
No way would I vote for any Indiana Dem for such a ridiculously lame reason when there is the potential for them to rise to the national level.
My solution to our voter ignorance problem is that we need to get more people away from the boob tube.
Start a campaign to get a computer in every Indiana home with FR programed as the start page. LOL.
Boy, you have that right! The primaries are coming up and a lot of people don't even know there are elections! Jeesh!
But it is a very interesting article....thanks for the ping.
It's in full swing,right here on FR and has been, for quite a while now and it's NOT just about the '06 election.
OMG...an old Arator thread. That certainly brings back memories; none of them good, except when he and his damned acolytes were finally banned forever.
Exactly!
If they can get past the words with more than one syllable, they can...
LOL. I know what you mean. Liberals are stupid.
The more things change...
It's good to see Dustin call these people out. I know a lot of conservatives and not a single on is going to sit out or vote third party this fall.
I know a bunch of liberals and they are really, really hoping the rest of us get discouraged and give up. In fact they try to make me start thinking that way every single day. They tell me just how bad "our people" are and what ineffective and corrupt leaders they are. They say that the people who I support just don't care about OUR issues. They have abandoned those so called core principles that mean so much to me. It all sounds so unbelievable familiar.
Oddly, they never have any suggestion about what they have to offer to fulfill those core principles. I find that telling.
My dad callled the "'aginner's". And many "conservatives" (whose names I don't recognize and have curiously coincidental sign-up dates just prior to the 2004 elections) are exactly the same: they're just against everything Bush does, or the Republicans do. Or, they don't do enough.
All these clowns threatening to join the Constitution Party (which opposes the War on Terror) remind me of the hyenas who voted for Buchanan in 2000.
BRAVA! :-)
THAT"S IT! I'VE HAD IT.
I've been a lifelong Democrat, but there's no way in hell I'll be voting for Hillary in '08. Not ever!
uh..ouch
It actually hurt me phsycologically to type the first part, but the part about not voting for the Hildabeat was pretty therapuetic.
I guess I'd better not get into this game.
Not surprising at all. We have the freepers who claim they are more conservative than anyone else and then we have the third party players. It's all a crock and they're trying to destroy the forum.
I live in SC - one of the most conservative states in the country - solid Bush country. Although my friends have occasionally mentioned they don't like some things Republicans are doing, it's almost always the Congress they mention -- not the president. So I know a lot of these so called freepers are just troublemakers.
As well, the book Hillary's Secret War, for which Jim Robinson wrote the foreward, mentions FR and how liberals come to conservative web sites, establish themselves as "good" conservatives and when the time is ripe, strike and cause dissension am ong the real conservatives. You know, people like you and me who actually VOTE for conservatives. LOL
When I vote in national races, or for federal positions I vote for what I call "the most conservative person who can win from a blue state" so the GOP can retain leadership in DC. I have no illusions about the agenda of many so called Rinos...but I vote for them in hopes that the Red State Conservatives will step up to the plate and set the overall agenda and provide leadership. It is at times the most I can realistically contribute. If I were to hold out for a perfectly conservative candidate, I would only cripple the ability of your conservative representative...something I would hate to do.
So...I am a pretty pragmatic voter. I will always vote for the thing most likely to move the ball the tiniest way down the field. Because for me, progress is better than nothing...or worse yet loosing ground.
Could it be that the talk show hosts are basing their opinions on what they think their listeners want to hear, not realizing that there are seminar-posters here just as there are seminar callers?
I am wondering if this forum is causing the same thing, inadvertantly, for the Republican party that the exit polls did for the democrats in the 2004 election. In other words, the Republicans pundits and Congress are believing false opinions, manufactured by a bunch of fakes who are stirring up emotional people who jump on a perceived Republican trend. Then, once the pundits start yowling, others follow them, and a fake trend is born.
Just speculation, but I do pay attention to what is posted here and what I hear on radio/tv. Often it bears no relation to what the people I know here in the Midwest think, at all.
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