“The 75% is cover voting for the rubes back home. It is votes on bills that are already decided.”
I’m just making the point that these Senators tend to TOTALLY BLIND to how the future Senators (they support) will vote, as they support people like Crist (and Lincoln Chaffee...unreal), who appears to be even to the left of Snowe...yet those same Senators simply don’t vote that way.
If it makes you guys feel better, you can run around calling everyone a RINO who doesn’t get a 100% rating from the ACU - but there is NO WAY IN HELL that Alito, Roberts, and Thomas would be on the Court if it wasn’t for those 90% of the party that you call “RINOs”. You may not consider these votes like these important, but I sure do...and some
of those votes were very close.
So go vote 3rd party, if it somehow clears your conscience, and let your kids and grandkids try to clean up the mess that you’re leaving, by empowering even more Democrats.
Typical, just freakin' typical. Can't argue the point so just make up another one. Mole, troll or whatever you are. The message is clear. We won't ever buy into national party game plans again and will strive to make all politcs local. We are the term limiters, not them.
Crist is a RINO. Before you tell us to leave because we are for Rubio, if the founders of Free Republic decide Crist supporters MUST GO, it shall be. Charlie Crist is a RINO which is not a freeper thing to be.
“So go vote 3rd party, if it somehow clears your conscience, and let your kids and grandkids try to clean up the mess that you’re leaving, by empowering even more Democrats.”
Actually, I don’t think that’s the solution. I don’t mind Scott Brown at all even though he is a liberal republican. But we aren’t going to do any better in MA.
But the way the money guys control the party is putting RINO’s out of the primaries with lots of money and establishment backing over perfectly good and solidly electable conservatives in states that will elect a conservative.
So the solution is what’s happening in FLA. The R’s are going to nominate a likely very conservative guy over a squish that got all the money and establishment backing. The question for the general election is whether the party establishment will turn on Rubio to punish him for knocking off their guy. They could make the general election a lot closer than it needs to be.
But in general, conservative states and districts should be represented by conservatives. Had the party establishment allowed that to occur during the past twenty years instead of aggressively twisting the party to the left, the R’s would not have had the electoral disaster we had in 2006 and 2008, in my opinion.
But make no mistake, I’m thankful for the Scott Browns. But I’m not thankful when the party establishment forces the nomination of a Crist over a better and more conservative candidate in a state that will elect that conservative. The solution is to not let the money guys control the party. They will always pay for moderates, regardless of the desires of their districts.