Posted on 03/24/2014 11:13:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Then maybe we can at least solve some problems.
Last week a caller to my radio show opined about the problems of this Democrat administration and this Congress. The list of complaints was extensive. He touched on foggy foreign policy, a sluggish economy, joblessness, waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars, environmental extremism, lack of leadership . . . and the list goes on.
He then, and rightly so, threw the Republicans under the bus, pointing out that they did not boldly solve things when they were in control of the White House and Congress. I acknowledged that he was correct in his criticism, but that I would rather have an "imperfect Republican" in control of the federal government than a "perfect Democrat".
Our nation is suffering from liberal, inconsistent policies and crony governance like we have not seen for decades, due to a White House and Democrat-controlled Senate gone wild. Lies, deception, corruption and denial in government are at an all-time high.
Imperfect Republicans are simply not nearly as arrogant or blatantly oblivious to the will of the working class. And in fact, they have a better historical record of at least a moderate level of leadership or better, even in a politically partisan climate.
Some people want to make an ideological statement by not supporting or voting for either Democrats or Republicans. I hope they are feeling good about themselves while these "perfect Democrats" continue to impose destructive policies, such as ObamaCare, on businesses and the citizens of this country.
Still others are single-issue voters, or at least they use that as an excuse. Earth to single-issue voters! We have more than a single issue driving this nation in the wrong direction. Agreeing with a candidate 10 out of 10 times would require a miracle. How about six out of 10 times so we can solve some problems!
I personally experienced this years ago when I ran for the U.S. Senate in Georgia. A certain financially well-to-do Democrat had encouraged me for years to run for public office. When I finally did run in 2004, she would not support me because I was "pro-life" and she was "pro-choice". She refused to support me on the other nine issues we agreed on.
I am not saying that Republicans are all that and a bag of chips. They are not. But at least Republicans don't sell you an empty bag of chips, and then tell you they did you a favor while they control all the chips. That's what perfect Democrats do.
If the Founding Fathers knew what we know today, they probably would have included a balanced budget amendment and term limits in the Constitution, and precluded the possibility of the Sixteenth Amendment, which allows the Congress to tax our income.
Perfect Democrats would never consider those changes to the Constitution. They love power and control over the people too much. But at least we have a chance with imperfect Republicans. They would at least leave some of the chips in the bag.
That's why we continue to fight.
Of course I know what the HELL I AM VOTING FOR!!! I am voting for someone who was NOT HELL BENT on destroying our entire country!!!!
I absolutely would have voted for Hillary I do not believe SHE IS HELL
BENT on destroying our country! Barack Obama is literally DESTROYING
this country Hillary may be a liberal however she is NOT a MARXIST!!!
There is a HUGE difference in a liberal and a MARXIST!!!
Surely you see that -- voting "for someone who was NOT hell bent on ... yadda yadda yadda," is an absolute failure to articulate what you were voting for. What you were voting FOR was to bring the Republican party left. Obama won. TWICE. And we are still here. For the love of GOD!!! CALM DOWN! You are in a blind panic still! Panic makes people make STUPID CHOICES, like chossing to vote for government tyranny, which is exactly and ONLY what you voted FOR.
It is a very hard thing to face up to, kit cat, and I had to do it myself long and hard, and it was an unpleasant experience. But sooner or later you're going to have to face up to it if you're at all honest: what did you vote FOR?
Short version of your post, kit cat: “Blind hysteria made me vote for a liberal statist tyrant and it would have made me vote for Hillary.”
Pure hysteria, pure panic, pure emotion, zero thinking. So here we have it -- a REPUBLICAN who'd have voted FOR Hillary Clinton because it would have been voting "against" a Marxist Muslim.
Amazing -- the suicidal fallacy of voting "against" with zero accountability for what that entails voting FOR.
As long as Americans believe in the fallacy of voting "against," they're going to lose every election no matter which party they belong to.
Thanks for making my point for me.
Barak Obama IS destroying our military, our businesses, our healthcare
system, giving the Internet to GOD knows who, uses the IRS against his
enemies, uses the NSA to spy on his foes, has DESTROYED our justice
department, is purging military officers in droves, EPA OUT OF CONTROL, dictating labor regulations and laws(can’t remember name of his labor board) I am a die hard conservative but would I have voted for
Hillary over this Marxist YOU BET I WOULD HAVE! This MARXISTS goal
has ALWAYS been to TRANSFORM America and you can bet I WOULD take BILL CLINTON or HILLARY CLINTON back in a heartbeat!! yes Ron
Paul is a wackadoodle but he is NOT A MARXIST!!!
Easy to play what if.
Vote for WHOEVER you like, I will ALWAYS vote to save this country
from the clutches of Marxism with the choices I am given, to throw my
vote to Barak Obama with a 3rd party is asinine! Think what you will I frankly don’t give a damn, because of your votes we have Barak Obama
and hopefully our great nation will survive 3 MORE years of his direction!!!
You could saved me the trouble if you'd merely removed your hat.
Because of mine; we have a 'pub majority in the house.
Romney also signed anti- 2nd amendment laws when he was Governor.
Isn’t, by definition, a “perfect” democrat someone to the left of Obama???
LOL! Well, FREEP on. I hope you vote.
I was Voting FOR THE SALVATION OF OUR COUNTRY, IF POSSIBLE!!! I want to BEAT EVERY DAMNED DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN THERE IS!!! When Voting for the “BEST” isn’t an option.....I go for the BETTER.
Then we'd best start EDUCATING every American voter there is!We MUST - it is essential! - regain CONTROL of the propaganda channels in this country!
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