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.

[cva66snipe]

Which prominent "uberconservatives" hated Reagan?

GHW Bush for one and in 1980 he was very vocal about it.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" IMHO it was the national talk radio show by A--H--- Savage that got these voters confused. They voted against their own best interest. As for Savage his best interest is his ego."

Neal Boortz said just before the election that he had changed his mind about voting Libertarian because of the Kerry " joke." Republicans may be big spenders, but, they don't hate the military like Democrats-so, he was going to vote Republican.
Couldn't risk turning the country over to the Democrats.
After the election, he announced on his show that when he got into the booth, he just couldn't do it and voted straight Libertarian.
He said he was proud of his vote.
But, then complained that he only wanted the Republicans to lose the House, not the Senate.

[pollyannaish]

Well, this isn't really it, but hints at what was going on, inside and outside the White House. Can you imagine what would have been happening around here during this?

http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963076-1,00.html

I'd do the research it would take, but frankly it doesn't matter if you don't remember. So never mind. I'm always just surprised at the revisionism.

[Tall_Texan]

Thanks. I have nothing against Boehner or McConnell. It just seems like the GOP folds too early and often and doesn't anwer back when attacked, as they so often are.

Maybe we need somebody who can make those 2-minute speeches exposing Democrat misdoings again. I sure miss those.

[JFC]

You are right... way too many of the ONE ISSUE voters lost this election for the rest of us!

PITIFUL and SHAMEFUL of you guys.

[Defender2]

Article and Post#1 DITTOS!!!!

My Feelings Exactly Echoed!!!!

Thank You For Posting A Very Important Article!!!!

Conservative Non-Voters Helped put a bunch of nutcases in power!!!!

Rangel wants the Draft reinstated, Dean wants more gays in government, Pelosi wanted Anti-Military Murtha as House Majority Leader, Dems targetting oil companies tax breaks for elimination, which will thereby cause an increase in retail prices, Socialized Healthcare rearing it's ugly head once again, putting time tables on the War on Terror,
their war on Wal-Mart, their Socialists Agenda is being announced to full swing!!!!

new yorker 77. We Voted to try to keep this from happening!

The Non Voters ensured it happening!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

That may be the first time I've ever heard GHWB called "uberconservative".

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I don't remember because I was 8 years old at the time. That's why I was asking you.

[ozarkgirl]

I understand completely, I had heard somewhere it had gone up and I tried several places to look up before I found that one I posted. Just because you put "budget deficit" doesn't mean it gives the whole thing, I got "deficit with China" and several others before finding the total. But yes, it is higher, yes, the war is expensive so it would have to be higher. Although the tax cuts keep the economy strong, if not, it would be considerably worse.

[ozarkgirl]

It appears that the name-calling continues. Unfortunately, that isn't likely to draw voters in future elections, just as it wasn't effective in this election.

I'll second that! In fact I've made very similar posts to that. I see alot of that here, vote my side or else!! Like a bully on the playground.

[cva66snipe]

That may be the first time I've ever heard GHWB called "uberconservative".

Uber as ultra? LOL Poppy ranks up there with Jerry Ford in being the GOP Ultra Liberals. Junior didn't fall far from the tree either.

[pollyannaish]

Ahh. Ok. I was young and stupid and liberal at the time. Lucky you, you got to avoid two of those! ;-)

By year six, many Republicans went after President Reagan on domestic issues and scandal, while conservatives were getting irritated because he wasn't hitting back hard enough over the growing threat of scandal and he appeared to go soft on the Soviets when he and Gorbachev started talking instead of being "tough." Many hawks thought he was going weak.

There were also many on the right who were let down because the government was not getting smaller as promised, but they had the luxury of blaming a dem congress. I was thrilled at the time because as a college student, I believed it meant that he was "going down" because look...even his own team hated him! That mean old man.

Any of this sound familiar? Little did I know how much I would miss the man just a few years later, how much I would come to admire him and that I would eventually name one of my children after him.

The man who made us all proud to be conservatives, cut taxes and for all intents and purposes won the cold war, is also the man who gave us blanket amnesty, Sandra Day O'Connor and cut in run in the ME.

What I have tried to do since then is look for honorable character, a relatively conservative world view, decency, love of America and practical political acumen in my candidates. They are only human, and looking for the perfect candidate is simply a road to disappointment.

[Texas Chilli]

I was wondering where you data is that supports the claim that "conservatives" did not vote. I think all i have seen is independents (rinos) did not vote for the GOP.

[Tinian]

Let me tell you something about ole Ricky Santorum you may not remember. He talks conservative values yet he campaigns hard for liberals like Christie Todd Whittman.

Errr...that's Christine Todd Whitman.

Remember how the press pilloried Bush for adding arsenic to the water supply when all he wanted to do was find out if Clinton's 11th hour arsenic rules were scientifically justified? It sounds like you wouldn't be happy unless Bush 43 re-appointed James Watt as the head of the EPA.

Bush and congress need to get off their NWO and globalist high horse and remember that they were elected to govern the United States of America as set forth in the Constitution and not extend themselves in to try and form hemispheric governments and make binding treaties and trade agreements that endanger the future of this nation. I hold Dems as equal to blame as GOP.

Turn off the short wave radio, dude

And find a yourself a new haberdasher.

[humblegunner]

Thank you for giving us blanket amnesty for illegals.

I didn't do that. Sell this crap down the road.

Thank you for courageously abandoning our troops.

I didn't do that either. You have no clue what you are talking about.

Thank you for handing victory to the terrorists.

You are on a roll, here, sonny. Are you drunk?
I did nothing of the sort.

Thank you for guaranteeing higher taxes. Thank you for guaranteeing no more conservative judges.

You are making some very foolish assumptions here, junior.

Thank you for empowering John McCain.

Thank you for making an ass of yourself for all to see.
You have no idea who voted for what or not, yet you
lay out the blame on those least likely to deserve it.

Thank you for bringing back universal health care.

You begin to bore me, Skippy.

Thank you for endless investigations.

Someone should investigate YOU, you bloody twit.
Did the mean boys throw your bow-tie in the urinal again?

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.

Now you are asking for a whoopin'.

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

Point out this complaining, if you please.

You are a whiney little pansy, I waste my time on you.

Begone.

[brytlea]

I agree, we need to look ALOT harder at the integrity of the system. For some reason Republicans tend to not want to raise a ruckus. I think because we tend to be, on the whole, more trusting of the system and institutions in place.
It's hard to be defeated, for any reason. What I don't understand is the tendency for some to want to lash out at their own, rather than trying to see if their pov has ANY merit, and even if one decides it doesn't, figuring out how to bring them around to your own pov. Calling them names and hurling insults rarely has that effect.
Oh well. We really are all on the same side in the big scheme of things. Hopefully things will be different in 2 years. I hope we have candidates I can be proud to support, not just be voting for the least awful one.
susie

[Tinian]

Sounds like new yorker 77 touched a raw nerve.

Some people can't handle the truth!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

What I have tried to do since then is look for honorable character, a relatively conservative world view, decency, love of America and practical political acumen in my candidates. They are only human, and looking for the perfect candidate is simply a road to disappointment.

That's exactly what I do. Earlier in the thread, I let it be known that I voted a straight GOP ticket, despite a whole slate of imperfect candidates. I just refuse to condemn those who draw the line between imperfect and unacceptable and stand their ground come election day (I used PA congressman Mike Fitzpatrick as an example of the latter. I don't care what party he belongs to, I'm glad he lost).

I believe in conservatism, I believe it's the best course for my country. But I don't expect perfection. I'm prepared to support Mitt Romney in '08, even though he's imperfect. On the other hand, I'll work my tail off to oppose Rudy Giuliani, who I find completely unacceptable.

[humblegunner]

Sounds like new yorker 77 touched a raw nerve.

No, rather new yorker 77 is misplacing the blame.

Ranting at the folks on FR as if they were to blame for the situation is flat stupid.

[pollyannaish]

I'm with you. Same page and all that. I genuinely wish I hadn't wasted my Reagan years opposing him, and I have a feeling that down the road I don't want to look back and think...boy, I sure didn't appreciate the GW years enough.

I don't know who I'm backing in '08 yet. I will work my tail off to oppose McCain. Other than that, I'm hoping against Giulianni, but I am not passionately enough Anti there to say I'd never vote for him against a Hillary. Heck, if McCain won the nomination, I don't know what I'd do.

But...there's a lot to be done between here and there...so I'll concentrate on that first. ;-)