Posted on 04/16/2006 1:52:39 PM PDT by rodeocowboy
Question for conservatives who vote for Republican candidates every few years because the Republicans are the "lesser of two evils." P>
How is your voting strategy working out?
Since "conservative" Republicans have taken over the House of Representatives 11 years ago, the expansion of government has continued at every level. Nothing has been done to stop the holocaust of abortion. Gay marriage under the guise of "civil unions" is becoming a norm in our society. Our government continues in its Wilsonian tradition of globe-trotting and nation-building with the precious blood of American soldiers fertilizing the subjected nations, making them "safe for democracy."
Nothing has been done to deter the invasion of over 10 million illegal immigrants across our southern border. Taxation as a percentage of income is at record levels. Federal and state government debts are at record levels. The middle class of the American citizenry have the boot of the government planted squarely on their necks and continue to shoulder much of the monetary burden that keeps our corrupt governments breathing.
Conservative voters, I ask you again...How is your voting strategy working out? Have the "lesser" of evils advanced your agenda? (I really don't believe that this "evil" is lesser at all...but is merely a different flavor of evil. Much like choosing between strawberry or chocolate ice cream...the underlying substance is the same with the only difference being the flavor.)
I'm not asking if they have promised to advance your agenda (because I know their rhetoric).
I'm asking, "What has the Republican Party done for you and your cause?"
Words without actions are MEANINGLESS.
To use a quote from one of my all-time favorite superheroes in one of my all-time favorite movies (Batman Begins), "It's not what you are underneath that matters, but what you do that defines you."
In politics, it's not what you SAY that matters...but what you will DO once elected to office...
Until there is a paradigm shift in the thinking of conservatives, our nation will continue slouching toward certain destruction...Until there is a revolution in the minds and thought processes of dyed-in-the-wool conservatives who regularly vote Republican, there will be no legitimate change in our nation's course...Until the conservatives arise from their mental dormancy and slumber, our nation will continue to creep toward certain judgment.
Conservative brothers and sisters...OPEN YOUR EYES!
so you wouldn't vote for Tancredo or Tom Coburn?
I said respendican liberals. But chances are the party will not have them run. They will run moe liberals labeled as moderates or conservatives. I have zero trust in the party these days.
So you're the one! It was all your fault!
Mark
I intend to switch to the Constitution Party this year. My votes will still be those which maximize the success of conservatism, but the Constitution Party will have my mailing address, my ears and my heart.
EVERYONE WHO SAYS THIS IS MISSING THE POINT. The Republican aren't afraid of those who will *vote* with the Constitution Party - but they're terrified of those who will *register* with the Constitution Party.
If you switch your affiliation to the Constitution Party then you're tuning into the message of the Constitution Party. Also, you're shifting the membership statistics in a way that causes the Republicans to pause the next time they consider acting in a non-conservative fashion.
It's not that different than the Communists ultimately voting Democrat (when was the last time the Communist Party ran a candidate? - but it doesn't mean they're not a party).
I agree. Perry wants to raise cigarette another dollar per pack and increase taxes on businesses.
I'm sorry about the brain damage you're living with that prevents you from even ordinary powers of observation.
Not only that, but it must be horrible to suffering from the delusion that voting for a party that 99% of Americans have never heard of will cure it.
Really, my deepest sympathies.
Two words: Alito and Roberts.
Without the "sellout" GOP, we would not have these two fine gentlemen on the court.
I remember one famous conservative asking, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
In general I agree with you.... however in the case of our weenie Repub senators, the DemonRATS led by Dingy Dirty Harry Reed have controlled nearly every aspect of the Senate since Nov 2004. Frist lets the RINOS betray him, and thus there is no real concensus among the Repub weenies to go head to head in combat against the DemonRATS. In fact I would say that the Repubs are generally scared to death to combat any of the DemonRAT traitors. As much as I despise the DemonRATS, I wish I could trade our top 4-5 Repubs for the top 4-5 DimWits, reverse their ideologies to aggressive conservative, and I think we (conservative Repubs) would control both the agenda & the tempo of the Senate. Currently it is a ineffective bureaucratic disaster, with Reed manhandling Frist and essentially dictating to Frist whatever & whenever the DemonRATS are ready to legislate or vote. Our Repub senators are miserably pathetic weenies & cowards!
Yes, *in spite* of the federal government. Regardless of who was in charge of it.
But the bottom line is, I fully expect to keep voting for the lesser of two evils.
Years and years of complete control of government and this is one of the very few accomplishments you are boasting. Whatever. They are an accomplishment; but, they are one out of many defeats along the way our majority has ceded to the minority.
You beat me to it. Rodeocowboy has suffered one too many concussions. Not that it matters, the CP got .12% of the popular vote in 2004.
The CP is nothing, and will remain nothing.
Major tax cuts, 2 extremely important Supreme Court appointments, the end of Saddam Hussein and his psycho sons, the disarming of Gaddaffi, and a decent battle brought to Islamofascism's home court.
I'll take it.
The alternative: Major tax hikes, even more spending (and on the wrong things), more govt regulation, a stronger EPA, liberal activist Supreme Court judges, amnesty for illegal aliens (as long as they are Mexican, the rest just ignored), capitulation to Islamofascism, and racing toward Socialism instead of creeping toward it.
I won't take that, if I can help it.
True. But think of how much faster those defeats would come if the Democrats controlled Congress.
Personally, I blame Bush for most of our losses. Congress will naturally follow the agenda of the President, and this President does *not* have a conservative agenda.
Ummmm...no. That was pretty easy. No is such an empowering word.
Correction: the conservative party never took over control. The republican party did and the conservatives are a maybe half, if that, of the party.
I'm ready to vote for someone else too, but I'm too fearful of the Ross Perot effect.
It's happened right here in Wisconsin too. During the last governors race, Ed Thompson (Tommys brother) ran as an independent and split us up. The winner was Jim Doyle, a liberal democrat. So far, he's vetoed Voter ID, conceal carry, property tax freeze, and on and on.
Until a third party has serious strength, I'm voting for the less of two evils.
Did he run to the right of the Republican candidate or to the left? That's an important distinction.
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