Posted on 08/13/2014 6:43:02 AM PDT by Night Hides Not
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is saying that when it comes to midterm elections, it is better to vote for “crap-a— Republicans” than any Democrats.
“We can’t just abandon the field right now, you have to vote Republican even if it’s for crap-a— Republicans, and I would name them but I’m not going to,” Coulter said Tuesday on Fox News’s “Hannity” after host Sean Hannity said he is losing confidence in the GOP.
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Thank you SO much for Leader Harry Reid!!!! ANd Speaker Pelosi!!! The Democrats have EARNED your vote!!! Thanks ever so much, big thinker!!!
I can sympathize with your problem - I lived in King County Washington for five years.
I would suggest that you vote your conscience. IMO a Republican candidate is not entitled to your vote just because he has an "R" behind his or her name. The candidate has to hold enough good positions on the issues to earn your vote. On a couple of occasions, I have withheld my vote for that reason (the latest being Mitt Romney).
I would not characterize a third-party vote as a wasted vote. It is a valid way to express frustration with the major party candidates. The major parties monitor the defections to the third-party candidates carefully for each knows that if the defections become large, the major party has a problem. One thing is for sure - nothing will change in the Republican Party if conservatives continue to hold their nose and vote for crappy general election candidates just because the candidate has an "R" behind the name.
I'd love to see the Republicans gain control of the Senate and increase the majority in the House but I'm not foolish enough to believe that it will have a dramatic impact on the nation's direction. It won't be the Nirvana that the straight-party-line advocates seem to suggest. You know what we will hear in 2016 if the Republicans gain control of both houses of Congress in 2014? As you have seen we can't be effective without holding the executive branch, therefore, you just have to hold your nose and vote for this less-than-perfect (but really far worse than that) GOPe candidate for POTUS. In 2018, it will be some other reason to compromise your conservative principles. In 2020, it will be something else and so on.
You don’t need to be selective. Coulter is right. Vote GOP....unless....you can identify:
1) One Democrat US Senate candidate superior to the GOP candidate.
2) One Democrat gubernatorial candidate superior to the GOP candidate.
3) One Democrat congressional candidate superior to the GOP candidate.
If you can, please identify any such Democrat candidate for all to see.
Coulter is right. This isn’t rocket science. It’s politics. The choices are plain and simple as far as I as I can tell.
Years ago I asked what is the fascination with this shill? I have never liked her nor trusted her. It is all about promoting her books, which I admit proudly, I do not read.
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I like her, I like her very much. She has a hard hitting humor style that gets right at the point of the matter, using few words she says it all.
I read her books. Some are better than others but her research on single motherhood shocked me. Single motherhood has done more to hurt this country than anything I can think of. It has filled our prisons to overflowing and introduced a group of people with no social skills and no morals.
Nobody is perfect, she has a few ideas that differ from mine, but I dare say that most people do.
Yeah... that clearly worked out well in 2012... (sarc)
I DO vote my conscience. I have witnessed first hand how the Dems have destroyed my state. So I vote the straight GOP ticket.
I cannot speak for other states, but here in CA third parties rarely win more than a scant percentage of the vote and the candidates who represent these parties are gadflies and crackpots for the most part. It is basically a throw away vote here and I suspect the same is true in most other states as well.
If you happen to live in an overwhelmingly GOP state like Utah or Oklahoma for example, you might have the luxury (and fun) to vote third party every once and a while and it would make no difference. If you live in a blue state like mine or a swing state, it is simply not wise to waste your vote on anything for any reason.
How was it under Ahh-nold?
Can't be, though. You've been voting (R) all this time. That has to count for something, right?
Put another way, many of us have reached the same point as Hank Rearden in Atlas Shrugged. We have learned the lesson of Mississippi: GOPe's entire system is based on the knowledge that we will always continue voting in the general election for anyone with an "R", because Democrats are worse.
Numerous posters have tried to convince us to "suck it up" and get over our anger, because it's imperative that Harry Reid be relegated to Minority Leader in the Senate.
I've got news for you: the federal debt will continue its upward path with Mitch McConnell and John Boehner at the helm. Remember how they punted on sequestration? Just wait until the Chamber of Commerce comes to collect what's owed them for "destroying" their worst enemy, the Tea Party.
My vote has to be earned, I will no longer freely give it. I apologize to my children and grandson for not realizing this long ago.
That's a tough trade-off to call.
It's quite possible that a solid red state will boot a "left-wing loony" who's in the minority in one cycle. I'm afraid of the serious damage that McConnell could do in control of the Senate. He's much more dangerous than a minor Democrat player. And... at his age this will possibly be his last term, so he may be legacy hunting, which puts his own agenda ahead of the party or the nation.
-PJ
I have never failed to vote in my life; I don't intend to start now.
But I am increasingly voting for "Vladimir Putin" in every election when all the choices are no choice at all!
In a sane world, that is superficially, well..., sane.
But I fail to see what benefit accrues from more of the same with different names and labels.
Getting things done for the sake of "doing something" is insanity, if nothing changes.
"Getting things done" in never an end in itself.
Just think where we might be if Obama got "everything done" that he wished to do for the last six years.
Yes, things could be worse. Hard to imagine perhaps, but since I feel that they can be worse, I will vote to obstruct.
Until something actually changes in politicians; even the "Tea Party" adherents.
There is no we, there is them and us, and the them use us, they do not like us.
Nothing says 'none of the above' louder than writing in "Vladimir Putin!"
Bingo!
New World Order coming soon.
120 million voters stayed home in 2012.
Staying home is not what gave you obama. You offered no choice. Socialist or socialist lite is not a choice.
If anything the GOPE is responsible totally for obama and the democrats setting the agenda since 1989. An echo is not a choice. You are just hoping the GOPE will hold off the tiger until you are the last one eaten instead of deciding screw the GOPE lets take them out as well as the tiger.
Hannity is nothing but Hannity.
The only thing that matters is ratings numbers.
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