The question before us is "do we reward such behavior with another vote?"
My answer would be no. And I came to that conclusion some time ago (and have caught hell with many FReepers here because of it).
Basically, in the parlance of our times, voting for those who betray you is AMNESTY, though most would call it COMPREHENSIVE SENATE POPULATION REFORM, i.e. "we have to win back the Senate!"
By voting for such men as John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander, Scott Brown, Thad Cochran, etc., you are essentially saying, "what you did is perfectly ok and you will have our support because you were clever enough to put an "r" next to your name."
LOL! Your experience sounds like my own. I'm heartily tired of being accused for 'wanting the perfect candidate' when all I want is a to vote for a Republican that behaves like a Republican
Why is that so very much to ask?
Yes, it is treachery - by the sodden, elitist faction of cynical, self-serving agents of constitutional subversion.
The GOP Establishment is synonymous with treachery
It is _obvious_ ; people registered in one party should not be allowed to vote in another party primary. OR, get rid of Democratic/Republic party nonsense altogether. I prefer the parlimentary plurality. Our two party system is way past broken in many ways.
Mississippi Tea Partiers should return the favor in November and vote for the Democrat.
It IS treachery. For a GOP candidate to send out robocalls to black Dems to vote for Cochran in order to “protect Obama”... it’s the lowest of the low.
Each and every GOP-E is a traitor in my eyes. I hope they all drown in their own vomit the next time they go to sleep.
Some former and current FReepers would vote for treachery every time as long as there is an ‘R’ beside the name.
I got a call the other day from a Republican fundraising entity. I told them I have been a lifelong Republican but they can take me off the list as I will not send them any money until they grow a backbone and some gnads.
“....the Republican establishment works to undermine and disenfranchise its own base....”
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When the RNC calls to ask for money I always tell them that I still vote Republican but that I financially support the Tea Party, only.
If conservatives had started a party when Obama was first elected, the party would already be 6 years old and growing and maturing. All the time and energy being thrown away now on the GOPe could have been spent furthering Tea Party Conservatives. People, who think they are geniuses but are idiots, say a 3rd party will fail, have already thrown away 6 years that could have been the initial ‘loss’ years and conservatives could already be in the 2nd or 3rd year of a prosperous Party and the GOPe would be dissolving and hopeless — literally the new party would be dominant now and the gop would be disappearing. People are so stupid. The GOP is OVER.
Do NOT vote for GOP elitists.
>> the Republican establishment works to undermine and disenfranchise its own base
Yup.
The GOP-e has made itself our political adversary.