Posted on 02/05/2014 4:05:46 PM PST by Carbonsteel
Another Bush-Clinton matchup?
I will not cast another vote for a RINO loser.
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Same here. I voted for Romney, and that will be my final conscious RINO vote.
Both McCain and Romney were way too liberal. BTW, conservatives voted for McCain because Palin was on the ticket, but we couldn't overcome the Obama/liberal media machine. It wouldn't have mattered how conservative the Republican was in 2008. Romney lost because he didn't reach out to blue-collar America.
Not if we can help it.
Jeb Bush will probably not even run. His wife is as elusive as Bigfoot. She speaks English as a second language. She got into trouble when Jeb was Gov of Fl for trying to senak a bunch of stuff in from Europe without declaring it. She will be a total negative.
This guy is an idiot, We will not have Jeb Bush as the nominee, it will be Cruz or R. Paul.
I can’t really blame someone for refusing to vote for McCain, But my point is that liberals ALWAYS vote for the Democrat candidate, so a non-vote by conservatives is in effect a vote for the Democrat. They’re going to win every time if we have conservatives who won’t vote. Is McCain really worse than Obama? McCain is an idiot but Obama is intentionally evil. The Marxist is dismantling the country at a far greater rate than I think McCain would have.
Then you’re voting for Hillary.
Never made it out of first grade math, eh? Or is it the new emotion-based math that you use, to calculate that refusing to vote for a liberal, equals voting for another liberal in a different uniform?
It is pure emotion. The cold hard mathematical reality, Mercat, is that you only get to vote FOR. It's like a light switch, on or off.
When you voted for Romney, I know what you think you were voting "against."
What were you voting FOR?
Because what you vote for is the only thing that counts. Had Romney won, right now what we voted for would be the only thing that mattered.
I know what I voted for when I voted for a third-party candidate I knew would lose, and it was a very specific thing. I cast that vote with confidence and would do so again. May have to, in fact.
Mercat, what specifically were you voting for when you pulled the lever for Romney? Not "against," but for?
The focus on specific families for candidates shuts out many qualified candidates.
And it turns us into an aristocratic state - where 30 years ago you can’t seek higher office unless you come from the upper crust with one of half a dozen family names: Kennedy, Bush, Cheney, Clinton and maybe a few more.
No more squishy milquetoast pantywaist GOPe moderate/liberals EVER!!!
My vote must be earned. The candidate must provide reasons for me to vote for him/her. Voting against their opponent is insufficient. I voted for Romney and swore that he’d be my last lesser-of-two-evils vote ever. The Republicans need to nominate a conservative fighter and solidify around that candidate early to avoid the dilution that always seems to happen.
Yes!
In 15 years will we be forced to choose between Clinton's talentless daughter or some Bush great grandson? Enough is enough.
Not. A. Chance. In. Hell.
Calling someone a “purist” because they don’t want to settle for a loser yet again is a phony argument. That’s like belittling a student for studying and wanting to get a B+ instead of a C-. Nobody’s demanding an A+ candidate, just a candidate that’s better than a progressive squishy liberal republican that fails to inspire the base.
We don’t expect ‘perfect’ but by gawd we demand better than another Bush.
This kind of voting is what a lot of us have been doing for quite some time on the same rationalization. We are now realizing that it is a swirling sink. Time to step out. NOW.
You only get to vote for, or remain silent. Voting "against" is sophistry, mathematically speaking. Math is reality, FRiend. What you vote for is the only thing that counts. When you vote for McCains (I did, for Palin) and Romneys and Christies and Jebs, you feel like you are voting "against" the Clintons, the Obamas, the nightmares that keep getting worse.
But the only thing that counts is what you are voting for. Voting for somebody who stinks from top to bottom "against" the other guy, is voting for making the GOP more leftist.
When I vote third party in a presidential, I know exactly what I am voting for. Voting "against" is imaginary.
Whether its via the Republican party or some third party independent miracle, America needs a president who represents the side that says shrink government for all that's holy, the side that millions of Americans are yearning to vote for.
“Both McCain and Romney were way too liberal.”
Who would have defeated Obama in those elections?
Mr. Linker, that is utter nonsense.
And the Lords at the RNC are deliberately setting the party up for another loss.
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