Spot on. We don’t have the luxury at this point of being able to vote with our hearts.
Sleazier is a boor.
“This is about winning”
The Rino GOPe mantra.
It selects the Romneys. And Doles.
Such hand wringing over PA. The media is going to crap on all the Rs.
McCormick seems like he’ll slither right into the swamp and be there forever like a McConnell, Graham, Blunt.
Sell out your conservative principles to score a win. That way McConnell and the swamp can continue without opposition.
Don't vote for the most constitutional candidate, vote for the polished, crafted politician so you can complain about RINOs for the next few years.
The Founders envisioned ordinary citizens serving in government. Don't listen to them. Listen to swamp creatures tempting your with "experience", "talent", "electability" and "broad appeal"
Sorry to all the weak constitutionalists. I am voting for Barnette and I am willing to lose with Barnette. I need to look myself in the mirror after election day and know that I voted my principles, not expediency.
It sure looks to me like the entire Republican Party, all three branches are spending an inordinate amount of jaw grease, printing ink and column inches trying to take down an uppity Negro. Almost like she knows where the body is buried.
If I lived in Pennsylvania, my thoughts would be, if they all dislike her that much, maybe she is worthy of my vote.
I’d read the headline differently. Whoever you elect is going to disappoint you sometime. See politicians and commentators for what they are. See their faults up front and recognize that everybody will disagree with you or disappoint you sometime. So don’t fall in love with politicians and forever after complain about them not being what you wanted.
I no longer have confidence in elections.
It doesn’t matter who we vote for, or how great they sound when campaigning. It took me most of my years to realize we are being played over and over.
These people want the greatest jobs in the world.... oh the opportunities they get. They are not running to save America.
We are so easily fooled by words.
Why do I say this? Because as I look back at the people I voted for, almost all who elected....turned into Rinos. I voted for McConnell when I lived in KY and campainged for Romney. Remember, Conservatives at one time supported Romney. Those are just two of them that fooled me.
It is a very reasonable and persuasive article. Pennsylvania is not the state I remember from decades ago. Neither is the country. Philly and Pittsburgh are two tough hills to climb for a conservative politician here.
It is a very reasonable and persuasive article. Pennsylvania is not the state I remember from decades ago. Neither is the country. Philly and Pittsburgh are two tough hills to climb for a conservative politician here.
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Yes. Let’s let the republican party pick candidates. It’s worked so well in the past.
Oh Mr Schlichter,
I don’t love Barnette, but I am going to support her, and if she isn’t the nominee, and OZ is, I assure you, I will NOT support him, and neither one of those decisions are based on being in love with anyone.
No I am not going to rally behind a piece of crap, just because the “other piece of crap” is worse.... After a lifetime of holding my nose to pull the leaver for the turds the GOP of PA have put before me, only to be kicked in the groin by them again and again, I will no longer do so.
The establishment GOP of PA are a swamp, they decided before this race began Oz or McCormick, neither of which have any political base here... and that these two will be the acceptable folks. A Wall Street Bush republican, or a “celebrity” who’s openly supported things that are abjectly morally repugnant, and against some of the basic planks of the “Republican” platform.
No sir, I won’t hold my nose and follow your script. We have worked too hard to get people like these OUT of office in the last 5 years, I will not be party to putting another one in.
Attack me all you like, I don’t care. I have loyally supported the garbage you have put in front of me my entire adult life.. held my nose because of the boogeyman of the other side.
Watched you not even bother to take the field to try to win winnable races because your priorities were elsewhere, put up garbage candidates again and again... etc etc etc.. No more. I’m done... if you won’t put up someone worth voting for, they won’t get my vote, period.
I am not alone. If the dem wins because of that, fine, Next Time give me someone WORTH voting for to take them out.. Better that than the same democrat light in there for decades and claiming “ooo this is so much better”.
Mr Schlichter, you are completely free to do what you like.. I however have to live long term with the GOP of PA, and they are never going to change as long as people behave the way you do. My goal is long term, and that’s to stop being offered crap.. If that means short term pain to accomplish a long term goal so be.
It’s not bad advice generally. I would also add to not “fall in love” with political pundits that write intentionally inflammatory articles for money.
LOL. Translation: “Don’t vote for conservatives. The Uniparty needs your support to keep the country running like it is.”
I think Barnette would be another Christine O’Donnell, the 2010 DE Republican Senate candidate. Castle, the Republican that she defeated in the primary, was a Susan Collins type of Republican, which is as good as can be expected in DE. She had never held elective office and was easily portrayed as kooky. She was crushed by Coons in the general, in what was a big year for Republicans generally.
I can count the quality Republicans on one hand, that’s not good.
Today - even setting aside the massive evidence of fraud - we have created a system where only those in thrall to powerful financial interests have any real chance of winning. Look at what the Senate is today, after the 17th Amendment has worked its evil magic - one hundred mini national elections, with money and influence from corporations, other states, and even other countries decisive in choosing who the "state" representatives to DC will be.
Idealists do not run for office - or if they do, they rarely get very far. The narcissistic sociopath with loyalty only to his own ego and his paymasters - that's who gets the furthest. The media demands of public service have become so repugnant to normal citizens that most simply shun it. When a Kathy Barnette appears, we want to think "A-ha! Finally - one of us!"...but they never are.
Schlichter is wrong about conservatives in one way - we don't fall in love with politicians, we have already fallen in love with a romantic ideal we learned in school, long ago, about what the American system is supposed to be. That's why so many of us fall for conniving RINOs who know how to speak the language we want to hear. That's why so many of us fall for foreign adventures that are sold to us as Great Patriotic Campaigns but do actual harm to our country and benefit only the Deep State. That's why so many of us fall for the Beltway's promises that they are the solution to America's ills, rather than the source of them.
I can’t vote for the goldman sachs corrupt commies.