Posted on 10/01/2014 3:18:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing
NATIONAL REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 12:34 PM
God save us from self-professed "conservatives" who will announce they'll stay home on Election Day as a demonstration of their power.
Because as we all know, you become more influential in politics and government and public life by staying home and doing less.
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Does the "I'm staying home" crowd apply this to everything in life? "I don't like the way the company is run, so I'm not going to work."
"Honey, I'm just not happy with your performance as a spouse, so I'm going to be less active in the marriage until you improve."
"Kids, I'm disappointed with your performance in school. Until you improve, I'm ignoring you."
The thing is, I wonder how often the "I'm staying home this year" crowd voted before. In fact, I wonder if they ever vote.
I don't understand the "I've never been more fearful for the future of this country, but I'm not willing to do anything about it" mentality.
Ronald Reagan is not walking through that door, folks.
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The pity, it seems (according to your mathematical skill), is that you have been cursed by a public education.
How is what I posted untrue? (Granted it is hyperbole.)
Nancy Peolosi and the DNC join Harry Reid in thanking you.
You want our votes? Earn them. If not, not!
“Later’ is a 30 yo buzzword. When exactly? When? Date and time you FEEL that magic happens and voting libs into power gets you something other than liberalism.
We have more influence with them than the Uber libs.
It is a matter of increments.
OR heading your butt against the wall. Or thinking with your butt. Or whatever!
promises, promises...
Very infantile of you and desperate in salvaging any reputation you might have had.
See, I was NOT comparing anyone, I was ASSERTING that someone who makes the following statement: "The perfect is the enemy of the good" is someone who is Godless and follows Satan.
"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." - Matthew 5:48
To which you assert the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Which is why I wrote that at least we know what you are truly beholden to in spirit.
Yup You incremented more liberal into the GOP every time you abandoned principle for ‘winning’ for the sake of ‘Winning’.
Worked great. Thats the reality we live in. No way around it. You / we did not increment libeals out. We incremented more of them in and patted our backs for our pragmatism.
Yea team.
What will get you Hitlery is nominating another POS GOP-E leftist like Romney. The minute that candidate is nominated, you lose! Take it to the bank. You have two years to rectify the situation. If you don’t, do not blame the actual conservatives for doing what conservatives DO-—give thumbs down to “GOP” candidates who are enemies of the republic, of Western Civilization and of mankind. Don’t say you were not warned!
Pragmatism... akin to appeasement - Ever the enemy of principle.
This is amusing - a liar accusing others of voting for ‘obozo’ because they did not pull the lever for the Ruling Class Statist with an “R” after their name - attempting to label others liars - for calling him on the carpet that his vote for Romney was a vote for liberalism.
Oh the irony is rich.
And yet so many self professed ‘conservatives’ here proudly tout it as a desirable thing.
Pragmatism has another name. Situational ethics. It is funny to watch pragmatists dance around that inconvineint truth.
bump!
“It is a zero-sum game. Thus, for now anyway, the votes are either D or R. “
In order to have a zero sum game there has to be a finite number of members belonging to the set.
While you like to pretend that voters must choose either R or D there is no such rule in law or in fact. It’s a convenient artifice for the establishment of both parties to use but it just happens not to be true.
In the real world voters can skip part of their ballot. They can vote third party. They can write in their choice. They can stay home.
When the major parties alienate their voters they pay for it. Democrats learned this in the ‘70s when Reagan Democrats elected Ronald Reagan. No amount of badgering was going to get them to vote for Carter or Mondale.
The GOP establishment is on the receiving end of a similar message but it is quite obvious that they are too stupid or too venal to heed it.
Conservative voters aren’t likely to vote Democrat but they are likely to choose another of their options. If the Republican establishment selects another liberal Republican to run they will have only themselves to blame when they lose.
No amount of badgering is going to win them any votes. If anything it is just going to make conservative voters even angrier at the GOP for blaming them for the lousy choices of the GOP elite.
His history is filled with it. And whenever called on it he does exactly what he did here.
I don’t know if his motivations are financial, scripted or just asinine. But his history is there for all to see and I HIGHLY recommend people dig deep into it.
And for that matter, mine as well. Because I am quite open and consistent in what I think and post. Nothing to hide here.
As I see it the increments are a ratchet: only going in one direction.
Take, for example, the NBC-qualification; the requirement has been damaged (Obama, McCain, and possibly Romney were put in place to weaken it). People here are getting all excited about Cruz who was born in Canada to a father who was not a US citizen until 2005 — I have concerns that he doesn't meet the NBC requirement — but people here are seeming ready to brush it off as just a technicality
. I'm sorry people, but if the Constitution is to mean anything, to be the law, it has to be followed especially when it is inconvenient.
To say otherwise is to condone the NSA's domestic espionage; after all, it's far more convenient to search and seize everyone's information than actually do investigation, get a warrant, and then get the incriminating item/info.
To say otherwise is to condone ignoring the illegal invasion; after all it's far more convenient to ignore the requirements of Art 4, sec 4 than to honor it.
To say otherwise is to condone the ever-expanding powers of the commerce clause; after all, it's far more convenient to simply declare that non-commerce can be regulated under the interstate commerce clause than it would be to dismantle a single piece of the War on Drugs while trying to keep the whole. (Those in power are disinclined to surrender it.)
In short, increments
only seem to work for eroding the constraints placed by the Constitution — I have never seen them strengthen the constraints placed upon the government by it.
Not a republican. Not here.If you stay at home, then enjoy the commies you helped elect.
I’ve never heard a stay at home and don’t vote guy ever tell me how staying at home helps.Only thing I ever hear is how they won’t give their consent, like that makes them better than me. And then the garbage about how I’m a sheep.
So FRiend how will you make life better by staying home? Or is it only snark?
I heard that Nancy, the DNC and Harry were thanking Mitt for beating down conservatives, particularly Santorum with that flood of negative advertising. They also thanked the GOPe for making Mitt their choice, the only candidate that couldn't blast Obama for ObamaCare without looking like a hypocrite. They were afraid that would be Obama's weak spot, but the GOPe bailed them out on that one. And finally they thanked Mitt for running the most inept campaign imaginable against them while he shot his best bullets at conservatives. I don't know if Obama signed that thank you card too, but he should have.
Nancy, the DNC, Harry (and probably Barack) say thanks. We couldn't have done without you. Every time we need you to alienate your strongest supporters, you come through like champs. Looking forward to working with you next election.
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