Posted on 10/25/2006 11:56:04 AM PDT by freespirited
From a reader:
Jonah, Over on Freerepublic, I've been one of the people who consistently has been chanting for abandoning the Republicans. The fact of the matter is a republican in congress has a lot more in common with a democrat in congress than either of them has with me and the other folks who only get to spend their own money. The contempt they hold for your average American slips out from time to time and it's always disheartening. So come election time, it seems the only tool I have to get them to listen to me is to threaten to withhold my vote and potentially move the scope of all political discourse further to the right. But when the moment arrives, I'm going to hold my nose and vote for the republican lying weasel instead of handing a victory to the democratic lying weasel.
I mean I'm angry... but I'm not an idiot.
I voted already. Straight Republican, and voted against retaining two Liberal judges on the Montana Supreme Court, and voted against all Amendments.
DON'T VOTE and you have voted TWICE for a democrat..
1st not voting for the RINO and 2nd making a democrat vote doubly potent..
In effect not voting for the RINO is WORSE than actually voting for a democrat..
WORSE!.....
Conservatives are not staying home but independents are. The RINO/Bush strategy of 'staying above the fray' and not willing to fight and do whats right is going to hurt the GOP.
The republican big tent strategy doesnt work - either they stand for american/christian values or they dont. The GOP will lose because they werent willing to fight for American values.
I've never met one I could stomach.
Enjoy 'vying' with the demokrat your none-vote installs
~GCR~
I'm glad to see others phrase it that way because I am coming to the inescapable conclusion that the current Democrat Party has ceased to be an American political party and is more akin to an anti-American insurgency.
The actions and rhetoric of Democrat members of Congress regarding the War on Terror have been atrocious and irresponsible to say the least. I honestly believe the nation is in greater peril from liberal politicians and media within our borders today than the threat posed by foreign enemies during the Cold War.
A decision not to vote is really a vote for the people who hate you. By you, I mean conservatives, and hate is the right word.
---We're all angry..it's that time of the year.---
I was angry, but Bush is signing the border fence bill this week. So now I'm cool. I've got 4 Republican signs on my lawn.
Unfortunately, the national Republican party routinely supports incumbents regardless of how odious the person is.
Two clear pond scum examples come to mind: Lincoln Chafee and Arlen Specter. Both would have been defeated in the primaries, and deservedly so, if the national party had not come to their rescue.
I no longer contribute a penny to the national party as a result.
Sadly, when the time comes, I will almost always hold my nose and vote for a miserably worthless RINO Republican rather than an outright pond scum Democrat. But I no longer buy the "do it in the primary" argument.
Since Lincoln Chafee does not rise to the minimum standard of "miserably worthless RINO", I would not vote at all rather than vote for Chafee.
I was angry, but Bush is signing the border fence bill this week. So now I'm cool. I've got 4 Republican signs on my lawn.
My anger management classes are helping.
I've had the same thought for years now. This is triage in an attempt to slow the hemorrhaging of our rights.
>>Words of wisdom for anyone thinking of staying home (or worse).<<
Sometimes you just gotta let evil fully expose itself before you kill it. I Democrat run congress would be a move in the right direction.
Hmmm, if I can speed that along, maybe I WILL vote after all...
The "Honest Libertarian" here in Montana, Stan Jones, trailing way back in the polls, replicated alot of the same views as the kook Jon Tester. I took that as a rousing endorsement of Liberalism.
The way I look at it is:
What will be the better choice to advance the Conservative Agenda:
- Voting for a Democrat, putting them in power and have them run all the Committees in Congress,
- Voting for a third party, who has absolutely no chance of winning, thus giving the Dems a higher probability of winning, or
- Voting for a Republican, even if he's a RINO, thus keeping the Republican's in power and having the chairmen of all the committees have an R next to their name.
I've decided that that best way to advance the Conservate agenda is to vote for the Republican... even if he's a RINO... because it gives the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS in Congress more power!
I've learned my lesson in the past (I voted for Perot in 1992, which gave us 8 years of Clinton - I'm sorry) and will not repeat my mistake!
Dear Angry Conservative,
Something has been bothering me of late. Our country has become so polarized and hateful to one another that the problems facing our country and how to overcome them can no longer be handled by a political system made up by two hate filled groups, Republicans and Democrats, who truly despise one another. How deep is this hate, how much longer it will continue, and where it will lead could very well be something that no one wants to think about.
Now, before someone says, “Diversity of opinion is a good thing,” look at where diversity has lead the Iraqis. The Iraqis have been contending with diversity in that part of the world much longer than we have in this country, and where has it taken them? They have come to hate one another to the degree that when given an opportunity to be a free and democratic people, they seem to prefer to use this freedom to murder one another.
Can we see what our own future may hold for us by observing what diversity of opinion has done for the Iraqis in the “Cradle of Civilization”? Diversity of opinion might be a good thing, but at the rate we’re going, how much longer will it be before we start acting like Iraqis?
I was angry, but Bush is signing the border fence bill this week. So now I'm cool. I've got 4 Republican signs on my lawn.
My anger management classes are helping.
I use 12 year old Johnny Walker Black, neat...just sip it...and sip it...no more anger.
"...honest libertarian...
A bunch of libertarian posts indicate the platform is
Get out of Iraq
Legalize drugs
Legalize abortions on demand
Open borders
You for that faction?
I just changed my tagline due to you. Thanks.
Exactly.
I'm not too happy about the Republicans right now--among other things, many of them cannot govern responsibly at all.
It just seems like the collective spines of much of the Republican leadership has went missing--IMHO, it almost seems like the Republican Party proper has split into a more independent conservative faction and a faction that seems to remain absolutely faithful to President Bush, Chairman Mehlman, and the RNC.
And it appears that with it, the Republican Party of Goldwater, and later Reagan has lost its strong, united, moderately-but-distinctly conservative identity amidst this division--a farther to the right independent conservative movement and an increasingly centrist faction loyal to the RNC.
Almost like the yin and yang being pulled apart...
The sharp contrast within our party is one of the key things that's keeping many (myself included) people as indie conservatives and not necessarily Republicans. It's these points that seem to obstruct reunification and thus emerge as a strong, united front.
This isn't to say that American conservatism demands a lockstep identity (as does Liberalism). Far from it. Conservatism by nature is an amalgam of many different opinions--nay, a veritable spectrum ranging from American Reactionary to right-wing libertarianism to social conservatism to fiscal conservatism to religious conservatism to classic liberalism (e.g Locke, Smith, Jefferson).
All of us are bound by many principles--the biggest IMHO is the idea that man is a good being in himself and is capable of self-determination.
In this day and age, it is just that we need to work together if we are ever going to permanently stop the nation's destruction at the hand of the Libs. The mere thought of putting Dims in office is morbidly treasonous in its own right and for the sake of all who love this country, must be stopped dead in its tracks.
America doesn't deserve the G-d-awful vitriol Pelosi, Kerry, Obama, etc. ad nauseam seek to unleash on this country. And imagining the country under the Dims is just too painful to think about.
OTOH, it is interesting to study this in school...8^)
That's the spirit. We need every vote we can get to keep those creeps out! Don't forget, we have Jimmy Carter to thank for the Ayatolla Khomeni and Iran today and Bill Clinton to thank for Jimmy Carter and North Korea. Sadly we got two for one with Carter, a traitor to the White House.
I will NOT vote for Snowe and many dems in Maine will.
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