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.
‘there is no difference between a RINO and a Progressive.’
Why has no RINO ever put a barking moonbat radical Leftist on the SC? Progressives do it every chance they get: Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsberg, etc.
As reliable as Kennedy he blows with the Washington cocktail party circuit. Obamacare being a prime example.
Buckley wasn’t stabbed in the back nearly as much by the “conservative” Republicans the way we have been in the last twenty years.
How have the “most conservative” Republican candidates worked out for us in the current congress, especially the senate. They have stabbed Trump and the conservative agenda in the back at every turn.
Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice, three, four, five times...
Well, enjoy Trump Trucks Running Down Colored People Northam, then.
Our RINOs have put supposedly right/centrists on the bench who in fact ended up voting for the other side in important matters .....can you say Roberts?
I hear a lot of talk about staying home instead of voting for the Establishment RINO candidate Ed Gillespie in Virginia... there is no difference between the two, so why vote at all... the same reasoning that was used in 1992... 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?Some of us.
Yet Roberts is not a radical barking moonbat Leftist along the lines of Kagan and Sotomayor. If I couldn’t tell the difference between rabidly, insanely Left partisans such as Kagan and Sotomayor, and Roberts, then I’d agree they are the same. But personally, I can tell the difference. Roberts is a miserable disappointment, but he’s vastly preferable to the lunatic Leftists Obama appointed (and which Hillary would have appointed).
So, on crucial votes, there is no difference. Roberts voted the same as a moon bat.
So, I would rather make sure RINOs understand we won’t put them in office.
You have a choice now. Trump shows you do. Start supporting the drain the swamp people or you are just as much as fault as the moon bats (i.e. you are a useful idiot).
Sorry, but the truth hurts. It’s from thinking like that we get the Bush-Clinton era.
Vote for FREEDOM.
So in your mind Roberts is just as rabidly, insanely leftist as Kagan and Sotomayor?
Primary out as many incumbent Republicans as possible. THEN you can beg for us to vote for GOP no matter what.
So, if our republic and constitution is destroyed by Roberts, or Kagan or Sotomayor, do you feel any different?
Personally, it hurts more when your “friends” stab you in the back rather than your enemy.
An our RINO friends loose no chance to stab us.
You are arguing for more John McCains and Mitch McConnells. Good Luck convincing folks we need more RINOs
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Not voting for Bush in 1992 was the right decision. It’s too bad conservatives didn’t make the second Bush lose in 2000. That would have moved forward the reckoning that only happened after 2012. The reckoning that lead to Trump.
People were also right to stay home in 2006 and 2008. Some conservatives even voted for Obama in 2008 to accelerate the collapse of the neocons. That worked. It’s why we have Trump today. It took Obama to wake up the majority of conservatives to the reality of globalism. Had McCain or Romney won, we would probably have amnesty and another Iraq like war scenario that would have swept the GOP out of office nationwide much like 2006 again.
Change was only possible when conservatives refused to vote for globalists no matter what. It took a hard line to force change. Sad that this didn’t happen sooner.
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