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?
“”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.”
I was there, not a dry eye in the place when he spoke. Even Ed Bradley, who was standing next to me was wiping away a few.
Thanks for posting his words.
“I guess some folks would be ok with the words:
PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON
If you write your own name in, or vote for someone other than the GOP candidate, you’ll make it possible, and I hope you enjoy it.
Remember, the time to divide us amongst the different GOP candidates is NOW. Once the primaries are over, we need to re-unite behind whichever candidate gets the final nod in Minneapolis.”
yep
Yes as long as it it Guilliani
Pookie gets my vote!
Voting against him means you would vote for Hillary? I’m speechless...
ROTFLMAO! Maybe you'd best head on over to WAnkerville... This here is a Conservative site. We vote Conservative here. We have been telling you "we told you so" for the last 2 years. Get the message. Vote Conservative or lose.
We’re this >< close to getting real conservative control of the Supreme Court. I’m not throwing that chance away no matter who gets the nomination.
I have taken the same vow, which is one of the reasons that I switched form the Democrat party many years ago. However, remember that even a pro-abortion candidate like Rudi, will be answering to the Republican Party base, which will keep pulling him in a conservative direction. When Rudi was in NYC he was surrounded by an ultraliberal milieu. If he wins the presidency, he will have to reflect the views of the nation in general and will have to move to the middle. Also, consider that Pat Robertson has endorsed him, which makes me think that maybe that Rudi made a promiss to not attack the social conservative issues. As I keep saying, I am voting for Duncan Hunter, but if he does not win, I will support the Republican regardless of who he is. Remember that a Republican president, will always have to make concessions to the Republican base. Bush really fooled us and we gave him a lot of leeway, but no other Republican will get away with that again for a long time. We are not going to blindly follow the “great leader” just because he knows how to make conservative noises just to get elected. Our eyes have been opened.
OK, I'll bite.
There's an old saying:
"He may be an S.O.B., but he's OUR S.O.B.".
If all we are given is a choice between two S.O.B.'s, wouldn't it be logically preferable to at least have _our_ S.O.B. in office, instead of _theirs_?
Just wondering....
- John
I will vote for the Republican nominee because I will not help elect the Hildabeast or any other Rat nominee, who would then bring the entire Rat apparatus to power. No way.
You seem to be mistaking this for a Republican web site.
I don't vote for liberals, no matter what letter they have behind their names.
Amen!
“I feel the same way. I want to throw people out face first out the door who tell me that.”
We should call these clowns DICCOs.
Democrats In Conservative Clothing Only
I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think Rudy will get the nomination. But, if he does, yes, I'll have to do the only honorable thing and vote against him in the general election.
Mebbe, but your vote still helps in the popular vote column-—and you know how the Rats use that against the process when they don’t like the results of the Constitutionally ordained Electoral College.
Why am I not impressed?
?
In a two-party system, which we most assuredly have, you are making a distinction without a difference.
If you don’t vote for one of the viable candidates (i.e., one of the two major party candidates), you are contributing in a real way to the election of the person who wins. Because one of the two major party candidates WILL win.
Your vote is not only “for” the person you voted for, it is “against” the person you didn’t vote for. IOW, it cancels out a vote “for” that person, thus depriving that person of that vote.
If you don’t do your part to cancel out a vote for Hillary-—by voting the only way that will cancel out her votes, i.e., for the Republican nominee-—you are in all practicality voting for the Rat.
Please don’t take the short view.
I know why... :D
Rudy will not get my vote. He is for everything a conservative is against. I do not owe this country anything if the so called conservative party nominates someone who is just as liberal as any democrat. I do not understand all of this pro Rudy junk on a conservative site. I have voted straight R for years but that will change this year if Rudy is the nominee. I think some of y’all are from DU trying to stir up trouble on this site.
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