Posted on 08/24/2010 8:30:04 PM PDT by Scythian
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“If I live in that state, I’d go ahead and vote for the Democrat over Juan.”
I would vote Democrat too, if I were in Arizona, just to send Arizona a message or not vote in the general election for that race at all and leave it blank. But I don’t live there.
However, here in Kansas, where I am at, is no better. The state chose a Liberal Republican for the 3rd district for the House to run against the Democrat. So I don’t know what do for the November election. The three options for me are A) Vote for the idiot, Kevin Yoder, just to get a Republican in. B) Don’t vote and who cares who wins because they both will suck so look to the next election for a challenger C) Vote democrat to send a message the republican running also sucks. Sometimes here in this part of Kansas, anyways, it is easy to confuse Kansas with California.
I’m split on what to do. Easier to figure out with John McCain since we know he sucks. He is the reason we have Barack Obama is in the White House. Well I know the guy here sucks as well but I don’t like the democrat so what do I do.... Right now leaning to not voting in that race. But every time I hear the Democrat pumps me up to unfortunately vote for this loser so we can beat her.
Its the same exact BS I went through in 2008, with this McCain. Ended up voting for him and he still lost. And Obama is everything I was saying he would be back then. And so is McCain.
I believe (and, admittedly, I live in NH) that there are a lot more Republicans than you think, of many stripes, who would study your data and vote for him anyway.
I still claim, until a statewide election somewhere proves me wrong, that trucons can beat any Republican in a statewide election by not voting, but that they can't win anywhere on their own.
What has happened is that trucons won't vote for RINOs anymore, but communists always vote for DINOs, and the results are plain to see.
People talk about taking back the GOP, as if they ever had it - and they never did.
Eventually, we are going to crash, probably hard, and a conservative government will come to power (to quote Minister Malcom, "by any means necessary").
But universal franchise voting and the GOP are not going to git 'er done, in my view.
In the meantime, electing a GOP majority (including McCain) will, in my view, mitigate our damages, however slightly, so that's what I think we should do.
YMMV, of course.
I can only conclude we have a lot of young people here who haven’t seen many campaigns. The first time I saw and heard JD Hayward speak I knew he would lose. Guy should have done the Joe Isuzu commercials. You live in a fantasy world if you thought he could take down an entrenched machine politican like Juan.
Yep, there are a lot of posters, I've noticed, who don't think the political party machinery counts for anything. It does, and that's why an organized campaign with the major party machinery is something to have, for conservatives, if they really want to change things around in politics and defeat the Democrats. You just have to have a well-oiled and functioning party machinery mechanism to get these Democrats out of office and/or to change the vote-balance in Congress in order to push a conservative agenda there.
I did say to several that I didn't think the challenger was going anywhere, but there was really no use in trying to get anyone's mind changed that thought different. The primary election was the best way to drive that point home. And now that it's over, that point should have been made now.
So, we can move on to getting things done in Congress and fighting against the Democrats and their agenda.
I thought that he would. Arizona does everything that he will do to them, in my opinion. And to think that I supported them in their battle against the illegals. But in the end, it is what they want, not me, that matters. The people of Arizona had a choice to make. They made it. I can like it or lump it. In this case, I will lump it.
I doubt she had that much impact, other than possibly telling him to toughen up on border issues.
Nope, we are not all a bunch of f___ing idiots.
All it means is this country is mostly CENTER-RIGHT.
And not super-RIGHT as most here wish. FR is very small compared to number of voters out there.
Very true ... on Free Republic, we are a microcosm of far right posting, but the average and typical voter is not in that camp. What a lot of posters have not realized is that you have to have the "center-right" to win elections ... :-)
And that's what it's all about - winning elections - because it's only then that you make an impact on politics.
You have a point.
If people are dumb enough to elect that RINO scum McCain, they’re dumb enough to re-elect Obama and dumb enough to re-populate the House and Senate with RATS, even as those same people destroy their country around them.
Govenor Brewer's endorsement of McCain and campaigning with him just last week, didn't seem to hurt her, did it?
Sometimes I wonder if some have gone so far right, that they're bumping into the left ... LOL ...
I'm glad this little episode with Sarah Palin and her endorsing John McCain is finally out of the way and shown to be no big deal, like a lot of people were trying to make it out to be.
Now we can move on to making a difference in Congress, hopefully, and changing some things around there.
I did NOT see this one coming.
If you didn't see this one coming, then it would pay to brush up on your political perception skills ... :-)
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbuagh might have not done enough to go after Mccain. If I were them I would be attacking McCain day in and Day out. Just to send people the message. TO all you Mark Levin fans, the time he sent attacking Glenn Beck s=could have been used to going after McCain. I don’t care to call Levin out, but what he said after Beck’s CPAC speech is part of the problem with the Republican party. If Levin is willing to go after anyone saying the truth then he should have NO PROBLEM with MCCAIN.
I suggest we get acclimated, as quickly as possible, to the idea of the death of America.
Do you have Internet in your bomb shelter, or do you have to climb out of it to post here? ... :-)
Correction as I made spelling errors:
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh might have not done enough to go after McCain. If I were them I would be attacking McCain day in and day out. Just to send people the message. So to all you Mark Levin fans, the time he spent attacking Glenn Beck could have been used to go after McCain. I don’t care to call Levin out, but what he said after Beck’s CPAC speech is part of the problem with the Republican party. If Levin is willing to go after anyone saying the truth then he should have NO PROBLEM with MCCAIN.
AZ voters decided for McCain, pure and simple.
How convenient.
zotta
Exactly!
And no one should think McCain thinks otherwise.
As with Byrd and Kennedy and Thurmond, et al, these old geezers become entrenched in the Senate and almost guaranteed a life-long position as their incumbency increases.
We have to wait for Providence to intercede on our behalf. And Providence is slow, in many cases.
I posted many times in this forum regarding McCain and his Senate seat that incumbency is difficult to beat.
[Disclaimer: I didn’t support McCain when he spent 8 years running for the presidency, nor when he announced for 2008, not when he got the nomination, nor when FR reluctantly jumped on his bandwagon, nor for his Senate reelection. McCain is dangerous. He has blatantly attached the First and Second Amendments. McCain is dangerous and this re-election only gives his ego a bigger boost. He can do allot more damage in the coming term.]
See that dust storm? That’s McCain scurrying to get back to his ‘friends across the aisle’.
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