Posted on 09/29/2014 3:27:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats think conservatives in general, and Tea Partiers in particular, are stupid. Here’s how to reinforce that belief: Sit out the 2014 congressional elections because your favorite candidate lost his primary bid to an establishment Republican. If you live in Kansas, for example, you can suck your thumb while Democrat ringer Greg Orman beats Republican Senator Pat Roberts. If you’re a Kentucky conservative, you can stay home and bitch about Mitch while Alison “Rubberstamp” Grimes heads to Washington. If you’re in Mississippi, you can stay mad at Thad and allow Travis “no repeal” Childers to win. That’ll show those RINOs!
It isn’t necessary to speculate about the results of such petulance. We are already suffering the consequences of a similar tantrum. As R. Emmett Tyrrell pointed out last week, about 4 million conservatives declined to participate in the 2012 presidential election: “The wise psephologists tell us that these conservatives did not like Romney. He was too bland for the Tea Partiers.… Frankly, I do not know why they stayed home given the choice between a community organizer and a former governor.” Regardless of the rationale, those abstainers are responsible for the domestic corruption and foreign policy disasters of the last two years....
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You are correct there...
Yet when it really counted, there were enough conservative voices to push the party to not vote for either porculous nor for zerocare. Not one republican vote.
During the gov’t shut down and in negotiation with zero in 2011, your point is made: the party caved to a bunch of moderates who sold the conservatives out and squandered their advantage. Then they were attacked by their own party.
And amnesty? Burns me up they are even considering it at all.
I will go back to my state: Tillis is a gop-e pick...I harbor no illusions. But I KNOW Hagan is an obamabot voting with the dumbles 100% when it counted and going her own little maverick way so she can boast she didn’t always vote with the party...no no...stood TUFF, she did, so her overall record is a mere 96% voting with zero.
Now who do I want in there?
I do NOT have the option of Greg Bannon...he lost. Having our vote split for write ins, libertarians, or just plain not voting assure me of another 6yrs of leftist fascist votes by Hagan.
It totally sucks and it should not be but that is the reality we face here in NC. I have to hold my nose and vote for Tillis.
I do not know where or if there will be a true conservative party or voice. Certainly, our young people are being systematically indoctrinated in the schools we are forced to pay for to believe that socialism is the new right way to do things and that conservatives are evil haters. And when they get out the majority will vote that way.
The constant negativism against conservatives will sway elections and that’s all it needs to do is sway them.
I do not know how to make the changes necessary to reverse any of this. Not enough people seem to care.
Voting for a candidate who does not share your views is like kissing your sister, and I have seen your sister!
No, it will be you who will be whining when Harry Reid approves the Commie Islamists that Obama appoints to permanent government positions such as the Supreme Court, District Courts, and other boards.
I’d rather “kiss my sister” than get “f-—ed by my brother” who chose to stay home or vote third party, if we’re using that analogy.
We honestly don’t know what happened in 2012.
When I saw the 1,500,000 folks come out for Chick-Fil-A in August 2012, and then the crowds for Romney numbering 30,000 to Obozo’s anemic 3,000, I thought for sure the country had woken up.
But then, election day showed a result that did not compute.
We don;t know how many votes were electronically flipped in 2012 or sent down a rathole.
But voila! the country re-elected the worst President of our lifetimes!
And then, the Dem media establisjhed the narrative that we just stayed home and allowed the opposition the win.
Really?
Who believes that crapola?
Then the Dems started giving the GOP advice on how to win elections—all of which was designed to weaken them and make them a minority party forever.
Funny how that worked.
What is imperative is that we gain control of the Sentae to block Ried and Obama from doing ANY MORE DAMAGE to the country.
That is Job #1.
If we fail to do that in 2014, it is lights out in America.
And the lights will not come back on without another civil war.
We can argue about it later.
We cannot influence anything if we are losers.
I don’t know about you, but eight years of Reid and Pelosi is more than I can stand.
Only when the GOP see that the opponent is the conservative third party candidate and not the liberal demorat will the GOP truly adopt the conservative ideology. As it is, the closer they can come to the demorats without appearing utterly feckless, the better for them. Hence Carl Rove and the Bush dynasty. A bunch of liberal pukes if I ever saw one.
I have not voted GOP in the POTUS General since 1996. If the GOP wants my vote they had best get their act together and dump the likes of Self Anointed Party Commander Rove.
One last thing. The COWARDS in control of the GOP time after time have refused to challenge elections when fraud is highly suspected. The DEMs have taught them to roll over and play dead. As a party they are just that politically dead. The party died in 1997 when John Boehner took over. No 1997 is not a mistake in my typing. Look up Bill Paxon and see if Boehner’s name doesn’t pop up.
So you’re happy with a senate populated with the Cochrans and the Roberts and the McCains and the Grahams and the McConnels of the world? Doesn’t matter who they are so long as they hand an R after their name? Then why bother with a Tea Party at all when the establishment can, and does, ignore and belittle it at will and still have people like you beating the drum to get out and vote for them?
Sorry to disappoint, you were not on the show up list but if you are a non voter of Republican candidates, in the I’ll show those dang RINO’s mode, to the everlasting progress of democrats, communists, socialists, leftists, statists, Barak Obama, Harry Reid, and the like, I can sure accommodate.
I have not voted GOP in the POTUS General since 1996. If the GOP wants my vote they had best get their act together and dump the likes of Self Anointed Party Commander Rove.
Thanks for letting us know. I’m sure happy with your President.
Thank you for your service.
What’s stupid is continuing to enable the RINO’S.
Anybody else notice this writer mentioned NOTHING about the GOP’s
message, plan or vision?
That’s because he can’t. There is no message, plan or vision.
I cast my last Rino vote for Romney. Period.
Well we are going to go vote for David Perdue for GA senate as Michelle Nunn would be a disaster. We are going to vote for Nathan Deal a RINO extraordinaire to keep Jimmah’s grandson out of the Governor’s mansion. I’m not hyped about it but we need to keep the state as red as possible. AND we need the Senate back.
Conservatives would not have voted for Gary Johnson.
Which candidates or party have you been voting for?
Better than a senate populated with Reids, Ormans, and Grimes.
Its better to have conservatives battling for more power in a GOP Senate than uselessly battling in a Senate where Reid prevails.
What’s stupid is continuing to enable the RINO’S.
What's extra stupid is denying conservatives any chance at more power in the Senate, enabling Reid and thrilling Obama.
Really really really stupid.
Any difference is by a few degrees.
Its better to have conservatives battling for more power in a GOP Senate than uselessly battling in a Senate where Reid prevails.
And that's just it. Reid Senate, McConnell Senate, any true conservatives will be battling just as hard against one leader as they will against the other. They will always be in the minority regardelss of who the leader is. So sometime I think it's better to stand on principle and not solely on party.
Actually, the opposite is true.
The 14 gangsters will rear their ugly heads again.
You know, those moderates that only rear their ugly heads when the
GOP controls the senate. Or is your memory that bad?
Good luck with that.
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