Posted on 11/25/2007 5:29:03 PM PST by cradle of freedom
I would like to know if you are going to vote in the November 2008 election even if your candidate does not win. Will you stay home if you don't like the Republican candidate?
Another thing that I have often wondered about is whether people actually stay home when they are disheartened. News commentators often say that some voters may have decided to stay home because they were not happy with the candidates. I think that is a mistake because even if you do not like the person at the top of the ticket you should at least vote for the other candidates. Have you every actually stayed home and not gone to the polls at all because you were not happy with a candidate?
See post 339
Things just changed...
“Outside of Ron Paul anyone and I mean ANYONE, in the GOP field is VASTLY superior to Hilly and her marxist gang.
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Correct. Anyone but Hillary. you are foooling yourselves if you think Hillary is worth any point you may wish to give to America.
“That said, I will vote in Nov. 2008 (as always), for ABH (anybody-but-Hildabeast), whether it takes one or two clothespins to do so.
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ABH is right.
BEST COMMENT of the thread!!!
Yes, I will vote and I will vote for the Republican candidate. To stay home, or not vote, or write in a candidate with no chance of winning is, in my opinion, is tantamount to betraying our troops. They are sacrificing their very lives for us all....I (and our family & friends) will NOT abandon them now to Hillary or any Dem.
Ask a soldier, airmen, marine, or sailor. The answer is obvious to me, but perhaps not to all.
When you settle for half a loaf, that is all you will ever get thereafter. In fact, soon you will be settling for a quarter loaf, and then an eighth... It is plain to see, and that is where the peril lies.
That's a very healthy attitude!
Because if Rudy gets nominated by the GOP, the GOP is going to get about half the votes it would need to win the election.
Won’t vote for Romney, but for a third party if he is the Republican nominee.
I don’t think he will be, however.
So, yes, I will vote Republican.
“Why write you own name when you can write Hillary?”
Same diff.
Just so you don’t think I made it up:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16762
Conservative Case Against Rudy Giuliani
The New York Observer also had a very interesting selection of quotes from and about Rudy over the years that may give his conservative supporters more than a little pause.
Here are a few of those quotations:
Some ask, How can the Liberal Party support a candidate who disagrees with the Liberal Party position on so many gut issues? But when the Liberal Party Policy Committee reviewed a list of key social issues of deep concern to progressive New Yorkers, we found that Rudy Giuliani agreed with the Liberal Party’s stance on a majority of such issues.
He agreed with the Liberal Party’s views on affirmative action, gay rights, gun control, school prayer and tuition tax credits.
As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani would uphold the Constitutional and legal rights to abortion. — N.Y.S. Liberal Party Endorsement Statement of R. Giuliani for Mayor of New York City April 8, 1989
Mr. Rockefeller represented “a tradition in the Republican Party I’ve worked hard to re-kindle - the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition.” — Rudy Giuliani, New York Times, July 9, 1992
What kind of Republican? Is [Giuliani], for instance, a Reagan Republican? [Giuliani] pauses before answering: “I’m a Republican.” — Village Voice, January 24, 1989
“Shortly before his last-minute endorsement of Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election, [Giuliani] told the Post’s Jack Newfield that “most of Clinton’s policies are very similar to most of mine.”
The Daily News quoted [Giuliani] as saying that March: “Whether you talk about President Clinton, Senator Dole.... The country would be in very good hands in the hands of any of that group.”
Revealing at one point that he was “open” to the idea of endorsing Clinton, he explained: “When I ran for mayor both times, ‘89 and ‘93, I promised people that I would be, if not bipartisan, at least open to the possibility of supporting Democrats.” — Rudy - An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett, Page 459
“From my point of view as the mayor of New York City, the question that I have to ask is, ‘Who has the best chance in the next four years of successfully fighting for our interest? Who understands them, and who will make the best case for it?’ Our future, our destiny is not a matter of chance. It’s a matter of choice. My choice is Mario Cuomo.” — Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City, Andrew Kirtzman, Page 133
“[Quite] frankly, you have to understand the fact that Rudy Giuliani was a McGovern Democrat, he was endorsed by the Liberal Party when he ran for Mayor. In his heart, he’s a Democrat. He’s paraded all over this country with Bill Clinton and, in fact, he’s very comfortable with Mario Cuomo.
But what Rudy Giuliani wants is to be bailed out in the city, in the mess he’s in, and everybody understands very clearly in politics that they struck a deal, that Mario’s going to continue to be the big spender, save Rudy the options of raising taxes by pouring money statewide into the City of New York and bailing it out. Quite frankly, I predict that he will join the Democratic Party.” — Interview with Michael Long, Chairman N.Y.S., Conservative Party, CNN Crossfire, October 25, 1994
“If the candidate is Rudy, Romney or Huckabee, the answer is no. We end up voting for republicans only to accuse them of being RINO’s which is exactly what a lot of conservatives have been calling these guys.”
So you’re cool with Hillary. Got it.
I will support and vote for the conservative candidate.
That rules out whichever Democrat is running and Rudy.
“So you’re cool with Hillary. Got it.”
No, but GW sure is.
I will have to seriously consider if I should vote for president at all if it is Mitt Romney that the GOP picks for its nominee.
At this time I CANNOT vote for him. If he makes it to nominee stage, I might not be able to vote for the GOP nominee.
But, I am not firmly ruling it out just yet.
Just think, it wasn't that long ago that President Reagan made the following statement:
"So, it was our Republican Party that gave me a political home. When I signed up for duty, I didn't have to check my principles at the door. And I soon found out that the desire for victory did not overcome our devotion to ideals".
--Ronald Reagan remarks at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, August 15, 1988.
Just by looking at this thread,,,,you can see how many Rudy Apologists with be 'checking theirs at the door'. Wow, how the Party has changed--so sad.
Exactly. The time to fight amongst ourselves is NOW.
Once the primaries are over, you owe it to yourself, to the GOP and to the Nation, to stand united AGAINST Hillary. If doing so requires you to hold your nose in the ballot box, so be it.
If the Republican party chooses Rudy, they will leave me behind.
You might as well go vote for Hillary, then...and you might as well leave this site, because there will be plenty telling you "we told you so" when her Communist agenda gets rammed down the Nation's neck.
“I will be voting Republican, and I will take a golf club to the head of any whiney Republican that tell me he is going to stay home because his candidate isn’t in the general.”
Yep.
Staying home or voting third party is the same as being a Hillary voter.
Although the Hillary voter is at least honest about who they are voting for.
I will crawl through broken glass to vote for whatever (it doesn’t even have to be a ‘whoever’) runs against Hitlery.
Not only will I vote for them I intend to contribute more money than I have ever given before to the ‘whatever’ that runs against her.
While FR spends so much effort tearing down Republicans, I am stating emphatically that ANY Republican is better than Hitlery, she is evil and will cause the destruction of this country if she isn’t stopped.
Any one of the republicans that are running, if elected, would bring me some of what I want. Some more, some less. But Hitlery doesn’t stand for one issue or cause that I believe in.
I would happily vote for a yellow dog before I give the election to Hitlery.
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