“I kinda hope they lose to independents who are strong conservatives.”
Is that like a kinda strategy? The Conservatives that win this fall will have Rs by their names, for reasons of law, history and convention. Doug Hoffman almost won as an I - but that was certainly an exception, in a state that allows and has a strong tradition of 3rd parties.
I applaud you for your support of Conservatives, but we need to deal with electoral and historical reality as well.
“In the history of the United States, not a single third party has come close to winning the presidency, only 7 3rd parties have even won a single state’s electoral votes and only 5 third parties have won even 10% of the vote.”
You’re telling me?
I’m the one who has preached to hard-core conservatives against going 3rd party for 20 years.
But listen to yourself. We are where we are because of the GOP, because they handed us only RINOs to vote for, and because they actively campaigned against truly conservative Republicans to hand us those RINOs.
EFF voting for someone simply because they have an R. THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN THIS MESS.
I don’t care what their party is. If they are a conservative, I will vote for them. I will not vote for someone simply because they are an R.
We gave them both houses back in the early 90’s AND THEY BLEW IT.
We took heaps of ridicule and abuse for 8 years defending Mr. Big Government Bush, and they flipped us the bird and gave us McCain.
The GOP needs a Come-to-Jesus moment where they realize their core is middle-class conservative America. If they continue to ridicule us, marginalize us, and pick the country-club, Rockefeller R’s that meet THEIR needs, to hell with that. They need to learn. And the best way they can learn is to lose to true conservatives.
So we have two options at this point.
We vote for any and all Republicans and HOPE they don’t stab us in the back, like they have for nearly 20 years.
Or we vote for conservatives (some Republicans and anyone else) and we don’t win.
OH MY GOSH!!!
If we do that, they’ll have a majority in both houses and may actually win the WH!!!
OH, WAIT. THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT!!!!