I am the same way. In the end, you can't win by not playing.
Well, I feel similarly the same way except I'm vying instead for an honest libertarian...I've had enough of both lying Republicans and Democrats although I have to admit that the Democrats are significantly worse!
My wife and I voted yesterday. Straight Republican even though two of them did not meet our requirements but they are at least Americans and not Democrats.
A RINO will at least vote with us part of the time. A Demonkat will NEVER vote with us!
I'd love to deny him my vote, but he's running against Torricelli's marionette, and the thought of that puppet floating more tons of cash towards The Torch is just too disgusting to bear.
Kean - you have my vote. I hope you choke on it, jerk.
ROTFL! That's funny.
We're all angry..it's that time of the year.
The dims are yanking our chains, the MSM enrages us daily with their fabrications, Hollyweirds like MJF are spewing their disinformation (even going off their meds for effect),the voices of reason keep getting yelled down and the people who are supposed to be on our side disappoint us daily.
But, considering the alternative, anyone who doesn't vote in order to make some kind of statement, IS an idiot!
Whoever this person is, well, good for him or her!
Reminds me of the old 1972 Ad Council PSA on voting: "Vote and the choice is yours. Don't vote and the choice is theirs."
Voting is always important. We've got brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan putting it all on the line for us so that we can go to the polls.
Think of them when you vote, it that helps; not your creepy congressman.
bttt
Voting 3rd party or staying home does nothing to make the GOP more conservative, because the attitude of the RINOs who are in charge of the nominating process is: "Well if the Democrats won it's because our guy was too conservative. We need to find someone more moderate."
The RINOs never react by nominating someone more conservative next time.
Coming home - mighty dysfunctional home. They call you names and shame you for speaking your mind.
I admit that I voted for Perot and I have since learned my lesson. It's a bad idea to send a message by voting for a third party or by not voting at all. The stakes are high and the voting booth is not the place to be sending messages to flawed Republican candidates. The alternative is brutal.
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.
>>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 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 will NOT vote for Snowe and many dems in Maine will.
Withhold your vote from the Republican lying weasel in the primary; not now. The Democrats will surrender to the Islamofascists if they gain control of the government; we will lose this war. It really is that simple.