I want to Thank all "Conservative" Non-Voters

November 18, 2006 | new yorker 77

[new yorker 77]

Thank you for giving us blanket amnesty for illegals.

Thank you for courageously abandoning our troops.

Thank you for handing victory to the terrorists.

Thank you for guaranteeing higher taxes.

Thank you for guaranteeing no more conservative judges.

Thank you for empowering John McCain.

Thank you for bringing back universal health care.

Thank you for endless investigations.

Most of all, I want to thank you for showing complete disregard for the tens of thousands who spilled their blood to give you your right to vote.

Your callous, self-serving apathy has guaranteed the government actions that you so bitterly complained about.

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A final reality check to all you non-voters who still call your self conservative:

You are not a conservative.
You define un-American.
You define un-patriotic.
Please stop pretending to care about the troops.

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To all you people who actually voted.

Thank you for defending our Constitution.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Keep missing the point...

We lost independents and libertarians because RINOs acted and spent like Democrats. And because wimp Republicans bailed on the war while Democrats attacked its legitimacy for three years almost unchallenged.

That's what happened. If you'd like to keep attacking the base, you can do so all the way up to Hillary's inauguration.

[Ditter]

Stop insinuating that I am not a conservative. I am very conservative but I am also very practical. Politics=compromise! It is a game and the object is to win seats and be in the majority. Not in the majority, you don't get to make the rules, pick the judges etc. (like now)

[Ditter]

>>conservatives or nothing>>

Welcome to nothing Joe.

[BlackbirdSST]

How do we begin the re-education process?

Well, the teaching began one Tuesday in Nov.'06. Thus far, I see no evidence that it has sunk in, Lott and others come to mind. I doubt the teaching forward will be realized without a further cleansing. Blackbird.

[CindyDawg]

Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!

Here is what needs to be done.

[MHGinTN]

"And because wimp Republicans bailed on the war while Democratsmedia alphabet network whoredom for the democrap party attacked its legitimacy for three years almost unchallenged." There now, that's more like it.

[Ditter]

Thanks, I agree!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I wonder how many of our left-leaning, win-at-all-costs Freepers have ever read this board's mission statement.

Not enough, apparently.

[Ditter]

If Whistling could pick the next conservative/Reagan like presidential candidate, who would that person be?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I stand corrected. :)

[CindyDawg]

I didn't but even conservatives can get off track when it comes to winning. I was saying, stick to the values and winning will come but it shouldn't be the main focus because when it is about winning , sometimes you have to compromise to do so. We aren't the majority right now which is a shame but we still have a lot of good people in office that will have to do a lot of fighting. If they stand up though, I think they will get help, the next election. JMO.

[Ditter]

You did, but never mind. If the media now begins to smile on the new winners (and they will) like they bashed Republicans that is *all* the uninformed voters will hear. The media is the enemy of American and I am despondent about that.

I have listened to CNN International in foreign countries and no wonder they hate us. Couple that with what Hollywood spews to them but now that the dems are in charge watch for an improvement.

[shield]

All I had to do was remember the complete misery we all were in during the yrs of the clintoon crime machine.

Stupid people will get just exactly what they deserve.

[CindyDawg]

Hey we agree on something. I think there was some fraud, a very small group that stayed home and a larger group that voted for anyone but the incumbent. Why? Because of what they heard from the media. If I wasn't on FR, I wouldn't know fact from fiction reporting. If you want a reason why republicans lost here it is IMO. Until people start to realize that the media is a 3rd party by proxy, it's just going to get worse. People need an alternative news-work to challenge these "facts"

[humblegunner]

So you figure it's the folks at Free Republic to blame huh?

I think maybe your clown shoes are too tight there, Zippy.

[FreeReign]

We DID lose conservative seats in the Hourse....but why? I posit the following argument:

* To the extent that conservatives lost it was because they caused an obvious cognitive dissonance with the voters who know darn well the GOP for the past 6 years has been anything but conservative.

Cognitive dissonance? You bet there is. It's as follows:

For the past two years there has been back channel propaganda aimed at us conservatives saying that the GOP is not conservative and that we shouldn't vote for the GOP. Election day comes and enough conservatives don't vote.

Then, posters like me come along and point out that many GOP pols do vote conservative; that we should have voted for these conservative pols and that we lost 25 good conservative seats in the House and 4 good conservative seats in the Senate.

Those are simple and true statements. But notice the resistance from some posters including (maybe) yourself.

That's cognitive dissonance.

Now here is a another basic conservative principle of self responsibility that hopefully won't meet further resistance: The voters are responsible for their own cognitive dissonance.

[Ditter]

I wish I had your "pie in the sky" attitude if we just "do right", it's gonna "get better". The liberals are crafty and dishonest and with the media approving of their behavior, it's going to take more than us "holding to our principals", it's going to take another 9-11.

I told you I was despondent.

[FreeReign]

Well, you are of course correct, but we conservatives are now tasked with correcting our fellow republicans and re-educating them in the ways of Reagan. It will take us years to recover from the political damage that our president has wrought, but at least, courtesy of the voters, we can start repairs now.

Reagan's record on spending, immigration, foreign policy, judges, taxes... was not better than our current president.

The above statement has been easily demonstrated over the last two years here on FR. Now watch the resistance that still follows.

[Let's Roll]

I don't think that's going to matter anymore ... there is NO way rats are going to turn loose their control* of the Diebold machines in the future.

IMO we've probably had our last chance for our votes to count.

*It doesn't have to be blatant - just programmed to change every 5th or 10th vote for a Republican to the rat opponent.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

There is no Reagan in this field, we both know that.

The question is, "why?". Why has the greatest President of the 20th century's legacy been squandered? Why has principled conservatism -- the fairest, most logical and successful political philosophy ever known -- been abandoned in favor of a policy of capitulation to a failed and uncompromising political doctrine with Marxist/Leninist roots?

The answer's pretty simple: Republicans care more about personal power than what's best for the country (conservatism). And voters care so much about winning, they're willing to sell off their principles at the drop of a hat.

I don't know where the next Reagan will come from, or if he'll come at all. But if you're asking me what I'd do right now to advance the cause of conservatism in my party, I would have shown John Boehner the door and made Mike Pence the Minority Leader. And I would have done everything I could to persuade Newt Gingrich to take over the RNC (conservatism has no better spokesman today, but his personal baggage makes his prospects on the national level tenuous at best).

Sadly, neither happened. And the policy of capitulation continues...