Yeah, we'll show 'em. We'll all stay home or vote for some 'not a chance in hell' 3rd party candidate. Then the Democrats will take over the house and senate, and we can get everything we want.
:::sarcasm off:::
You don't have to win them all. It's ok to take one step back to take ten steps forward.
The current GOP is nothing but Democrat-Lite. They need to be replaced.
If you two aren't fed up with being screwed fine.
Many of us are.
If we clean house now we'll have a stronger party later, if we don't the dirt will just continue to pile up.
I'd rather do the dirty work now and benefit from it later than wait until there's nothing worth saving.
I'm not advocating this (quite yet), but if we throw out the bad republicans, and there are a bunch of democrats elected, then in 2 years for the house, and 6 for the senate, there will be OPEN PRIMARIES on our side, where we can run people who will do what is RIGHT.
And we'll have all the incentive to work twice as hard to throw the democrats out of office and replace them.
A lot of times the only way to get rid of an incumbent is to get the voted out in a general election. It's VERY hard to defeat them in primaries, they have the reigns of party power, the money, and the votes of all those who believe better a dead republican than a live democrat.
So the solution is to just keep putting them in office and let them continue to ignore our voice? This is wrong and a vaste majority of the country believes it...not just republicans but dims too. They aren't listening to us anymore. Maybe they need a wake up call and if that means turning the whole shooting match over for a spell and making them use their filibuster power for a while...to REMIND them that WE THE PEOPLE are who they work for...then I am all for it. What good is it to send them there to represent ME if they are NEVER going to do it? And guess what...they aren't doing it. Right now...I would be MUCH MUCH more satisfied with a GOP MINORITY that was pissed of and filibustering everything and standing up for what was right than one that is caving into wrong every chance they get.
Maybe it is more important for you to win than be right...but not me. I would rather be enslaved under democratic majorities and be RIGHT than have a GOP congress and PRESIDENT that act more like the democrats of the 80's and early 90's than I ever thought possible.
If this legislation passes the SENATE (not the house..because they won't pass it), I'm done with the GOP until they clean their house. Why? Because I know my once beloved Governor and President GW Bush is happy about this legislation. He is "pleased" about it. He should be asking every one of these 5+ year illegal immigrants if they every had a FAKE social security card or FAKE ID and then prosecute them for having forged documents...like I would be.
But that's another area an illegal immigrant is going to get a pass on. The get to go ahead of the line...ahead of all those who have been waiting for years leagally...and they are also going to not be prosecuted for having fake documents (for those who do). And it's all sanctioned by our beloved GOP.