Are you going to vote in the November 2008 election no matter who wins the Republican primary?

[cradle of freedom]

I would like to know if you are going to vote in the November 2008 election even if your candidate does not win. Will you stay home if you don't like the Republican candidate?

Another thing that I have often wondered about is whether people actually stay home when they are disheartened. News commentators often say that some voters may have decided to stay home because they were not happy with the candidates. I think that is a mistake because even if you do not like the person at the top of the ticket you should at least vote for the other candidates. Have you every actually stayed home and not gone to the polls at all because you were not happy with a candidate?

[Little Ray]

Yes. I can always skip the Presidential line

[Big Horn]

I have always voted GOP and plan to again.

[Paperdoll]

You are weird. :)

[RabidBartender]

As goes Missouri, so goes the nation (except for 1954).

I will go to the polls in 2008 (to help Sam Graves beat Kay “carpetbagger” Barnes). I will likely vote for any Republican nominee, except for Guiliani.

It seems to me that if some folks spent as much time ensuring Giuliani doesn’t get the nomination that they do castigating those who won’t vote for him, we wouldn’t have this problem.

[capebuffalo]

DON”T BE FOOLISH!!!!

[flaglady47]

“I would like to know if you are going to vote in the November 2008 election even if your candidate does not win.”

Yes.

[stockstrader]

It seems to me that if some folks spent as much time ensuring Giuliani doesn’t get the nomination that they do castigating those who won’t vote for him, we wouldn’t have this problem.

BINGO!!! The solution is simple. If you want to defeat Hillary, don't SPLIT the Party WIDE OPEN by nominating a candidate totally unacceptable to your base. If that happens, there will be only one Party that will PASSIONATELY UNITED, FIRED UP AND ENERGIZED--and you can guess which Party that will be!

[Oberon]

For me, the answer is “No.”

[Manic_Episode]

I HAVE to vote so I can bitch for the next 4 years.

Won't be for Rudy though.

[B Knotts]

It seems to me that if some folks spent as much time ensuring Giuliani doesn’t get the nomination that they do castigating those who won’t vote for him, we wouldn’t have this problem.

Precisely.

[Redleg Duke]

Damned right. The worst Republican candidate (And I do not count Ron Paul among them!) is better than the “best” RAT Candidate.

[servantboy777]

If we keep fishin from the same ol pond, were gonna keep catchin the same ol big mouth bass.

Lets truly throw these bums outta Washington. How long do we have to endure this type of corruption in D.C.?

[mission9]

“So God would rather see Hillary as President?”

My reply:

So God would rather see Giuliani as President?

So fellow Republicans, knowing that a pro-abortion candidate is unacceptable to millions of fellow Republicans, would rather take that chance?

[mission9]

“So God would rather see Hillary as President?”

My reply:

So God would rather see Giuliani as President?

So fellow Republicans, knowing that a pro-abortion candidate is unacceptable to millions of fellow Republicans, would rather take that chance?

[mission9]

This apparent conundrum is a false dilemma. I am responsible for murder, because I support the Iraq war? Are those who support life imprisonment responsible for murder when a released killer kills again? Am I responsible for my neighbor’s house burning down because I failed to pay my fire dues?

The contingencies of blame get stretched mighty thin. Those who kill are responsible for murder, not some Rube Goldberg cause and effect scenario that points to an alleged “enabler.” One thing that will not break are my vows to God.

The blame will lie solely on those who took for granted the votes of the Christian right, and then found the breaking point of our compromise.

[mission9]

Your defense of Huckabee is admirable. The Thompsonites are in the process of burning bridges and eating their own. I am supporting Mitt because he has the best chance to beat Hillary, but Huck is way better than Fred.

[JZelle]

“What? Stay home and let Hillary win? Hell no!”

DITTO THAT!!

[EveningStar]

I will vote for the Republican nominee. Period.

I will not stay home.

I will not vote third party.

I will not write in a name.

I will not vote for the Democrat.

[subterfuge]

NO.

[alarm rider]

I have promised myself that I will never again vote for a RINO. I will not join the “fear of Hillary” camp. I will vote my conscience in the primaries, and if I have a chance, I will do the same in the general election. If not, I will not vote. I am sure that there will be enough converts from the “sky is falling, quick vote for him even if he is a RINO” to offset my non-vote. Flame away.