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2 Reasons To Always Vote Republican In General Elections, Even If It's 4 A RINO
11/4/17 | OV

Posted on 11/04/2017 2:46:53 PM PDT by OneVike

I hear a lot of talk about staying home instead of voting for the Establishment RINO candidate Ed Gillespie in Virginia. The reason that is often times given for staying home is that there is no difference between the two, so why vote at all. So they use the same reasoning that was used in 1992 when many Republicans refused to the pull the lever that would have re-elected George H Bush.

Oh I remember those days well, because I was trying to convince people to not vote for the hand-grenade with a bad haircut. Many die hard conservatives at the time just repeated the same line, over, and over, again. George lied, when he said read my lips. He screwed us, and we are tired of politicians taking us for granted. Many even said that maybe a couple years with a Democrat president people will remember why we voted for Reagan instead of Bush in the 1980 Primary. In four years we can then pick a conservative and replace the guy as they did when Carter was President.

Well we sure did learn our lesson didn't we? Yup, but the only problem is you never know what a person will do while they have the power you want to deny the RINO.

Need I really go through the list of pains we have had to endure because some people would rather see a city, state, or the country feel your anger? Looking back at the election of 1992, I can think of many things that would be different if people just held their nose and voted for Bush. Like the Twin Towers would still be standing, China would still be firing rockets into the dirt, would still have control of all our uranium, and many of my friends would still have sons and daughters living. There are many more, but those should suffice.

Yea, imagine if we took that spirit and fought like our future depended on it to get the right candidate elected in the primary instead of bitching that our candidate lost, so we'll jut stay home and let the Democrat win.

Mind you, there are numerous reasons you should never ever allow a Democrat Politician any where near a position of power. Especially if your vote can make the difference between who will have the authority to appoint the person who will become a US Senator when Senator Bob Menendez is convicted. Mind you, this Senator will have a vote on who Donald Trump appoints to the Supreme Court should there be an opening.

Look, no one knows what the future my bring, but I do know that if GH Bush won in 1992, Bill Clinton would probably be living in Arkansas with an ex-wife making his life a living hell as she complains about her alimony checks, instead of screwing up the country. Imagine if Bill and Hillary never would have made it to the white House. See, it does matter who wins between a RINO and a Democrat.


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To: OneVike

O’Connor didn’t “screw” Reagan. Reagan always took the “respectable” line on judges and abortion: It’s improper to have any “litmus test.” I choose judges based on their qualifications.

Meanwhile, Democrats, who invented the “no litmus tests” bugaboo, have left it behind, and are out there screaming, “I will appoint only judges who will protect a woman’s right to [kill her baby]!”


61 posted on 11/04/2017 4:36:34 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: central_va

As I’ve pointed out, a Democrat win is a win for the GOO-Uniparty. They will not put up more conservative candidates if they lose. They were ecstatic with 8 years of Obama, and ran Jeb Bush after McCain and Romney came up short.


62 posted on 11/04/2017 4:38:05 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

We’ll see. I’ve got no dog in this hunt.


63 posted on 11/04/2017 4:39:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Fantasywriter

GOO-Uniparty = GOP-Uniparty


64 posted on 11/04/2017 4:40:29 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: MinuteGal

“he cedes any right to help shape the Republican ticket in crucial primaries in states that have closed primaries like mine.”

So true. Pro-lifers hung in there instead of going third party and now the GOP is proudly pro-life.


65 posted on 11/04/2017 4:41:38 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: OneVike
Bad example. The Bush/Clinton/Perot election was a three-man race.

Besides, we now know for a certainty that the Republican Party is Democrat-Lite.

All that the Republicans do is slow the Democrats just enough so as not to shock the sheep into rebellion.

Maybe if the Democrats had tried to shove gay "marriage" at us in the 80's there would have been enough of a backlash that we wouldn't be worrying about religious liberty today.

Nothing is certain. Each person should vote his/her own conscience.

Once you decide to vote pragmatically rather than idealistically you open the possibility that the most pragmatic vote is to vote in the most abhorrent people so that the sheep wake up before it is too late.

I consider my vote for Nader instead of W to be a very good pragmatic vote. I was hoping the Green Party would get at least 5% of the popular vote and then be able to sue to get into the debates and get public funds.

If the Greens had become a bigger force then they would have been a thorn in the side of the Democrats and maybe siphoned away enough votes that the RINOs would have prevailed in the elections against Obama.

But obviously those who advocate merely voting for the RINO over the Dem have a limited vision of what truly pragmatic things can be done via the ballot.

I reregistered as Democrat this past election cycle in order to vote for Bernie against Hillary. I was going to change back, but decided to stick as a Democrat. Now I can attend their meetings and get some inside info on their doings. Also, every bit of mail they send my way is a dead loss to them.

66 posted on 11/04/2017 4:44:41 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Fantasywriter

“They will not put up more conservative candidates”

In my state, they don’t ‘put up’ any one.
People step forward to run and either win the Primary or motivate delegates to show up at a convention.


67 posted on 11/04/2017 4:45:14 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: HokieMom

Noted. I’m talking more about the presidential prinaries. The RNC has made an art form out of rigging that system. They let Democrats vote in many of our key states, making it nearly impossible for the most conservative candidate to win. They also dilute the field by way of distributing the resistance to their chosen standard bearer. They have other ways of influencing the outcome as well—financial shenanigans and well financed SuperPacs, to run vile, dishonest ads against conservatives to name two.

We wouldn’t get stuck with abject losers like McCain and Romney if the primaries were less manipulated. That is just a fact.


68 posted on 11/04/2017 4:54:44 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: OneVike

In my opinion, there is only one reason to vote for a RINO - that is to put off the sacrifice that should be done now until later, so that the next generation or two can deal with the problem.

Having Democrats in office is a quick death. Having RINOs in office is a slow death. If we refuse to vote in the RINOs, and the Democrats take control, the country will suffer and probably collapse within a relatively short time, or, at least, life in the USA will get bad enough to where the conservative couch potatoes will recognize that there is a problem and possibly be motivated to deal with it in whatever means available. In other words, the water gets boiled quickly and hopefully the frog jumps out of the pan.

However, voting in RINOs means that left-wing policies, rather than being implemented all at once, are merely put in place little by little, boiling the frog slowly. Every RINO victory makes regular Americans believe that the danger has been averted for another 2 or 4 or 6 years, and so they go back to sleep, and by the time the water is hot enough for the people to raise the alarm. it is the CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN who have to fix the problem, rather than the generation that should have done it.

The current generation of under-age kids have a bleak future as things stand, and it is because every generation before them failed them. Every generation before them wanted to kick that can down the road, desperately voting for the lesser of two evils so that there wouldn’t be any immediate significant consequences, but today’s kids are the recipients of all the consequences that have piled up over the last 100 years or more.

Continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils is an act of moral cowardice. Voting for the lesser of two evils last presidential election would have gotten us Jeb Bush. Think about that.


69 posted on 11/04/2017 5:16:40 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Fantasywriter

I see what you mean. So true. Trump 2016 may have changed all that nonsense. Hope so!


70 posted on 11/04/2017 5:19:34 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: HokieMom

I hope so too. But we can be sure the swamp is plotting against Trump all day every day. I pray for his safety.


71 posted on 11/04/2017 5:23:50 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: OneVike

Bump


72 posted on 11/04/2017 5:33:26 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: OneVike

Agreed. Fight like hell in the primary, but no matter who wins, you can’t let a Dem win anywhere ever.


73 posted on 11/04/2017 5:39:04 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: OneVike

there is no difference between a RINO and a Progressive. They both agree on policy.


74 posted on 11/04/2017 6:25:18 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: Arthur McGowan

Bullcrap.

Reagan wanted to over turn Roe vs Wade. He specifically chose his appointees with the idea that he would end Roe vs Wade.

He was vehemently disappointed by the way his nominees voted once they got on the court. Do not take my word for it, take Mark Levin. He was part of Reagan’s administration. He knows first hand.

Stop listening to revisionist history as taught by leftist scholars.


75 posted on 11/04/2017 7:33:53 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a humble Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Yes, Clinton had the wall put up that saved his butt from being prosecuted in White Water, thus one branch could not share info from the other and what we knew we could not stop.Thus what was learned from the 1st World Trade bombing could not be shared with the FBI.

I know you are not a novice here and do not know what is common knowledge on FR, and with the 911 commission? Or have you been in a stupor for over 13 years?

Read and get educated

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461127/posts


76 posted on 11/04/2017 7:43:36 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a humble Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike
The Bushes seem determined to spit on the people who voted for them in 1988, 2000 and 2004, but consider the alternative. Bush the Elder gave us Souter, but he also gave us Clarence Thomas. Dukakis would have given us two extreme leftists. (Remember, he was proud of being a card-carrying member of the ACLU.) Bush the Younger gave us Roberts but also gave us Alito. Gore, if he had won and then been re-elected, or Kerry if he had won in 2004, would have given us two extreme leftists just like Obama did. We could have a Supreme Court with 8 hardline leftists and one squishy moderate (Kennedy).

Of course it is impossible to say what would have happened if Dukakis had won in 1988--perhaps some Republican might have beaten him in 1992.

77 posted on 11/04/2017 8:14:33 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: OneVike

“I won’t vote” is a well known political tactic.
Beware of any who espouse it.


78 posted on 11/05/2017 1:27:26 AM PDT by stilloftyhenight ("Victorious warriors win first, then go to war." Sun Tzu)
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To: OneVike
Lots of "principled" conservatives disagree - they stamp their little feet and balk any time they can't get 100% of what they want and right now.

The seem to have missed that the Left got so much of its agenda done by a slow and methodical "take every inch offered" systematic assault on us and are too lazy and spoiled to fight a sustained war.....

79 posted on 11/05/2017 1:46:18 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: OneVike

Wow. You sure can tell a lot from one “Huh?”

How’s my cholesterol doing?


80 posted on 11/05/2017 3:38:13 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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