Our choices in life are not always perfect. For me in CA it has meant voting for people like Arnold and Pete Wilson over the likes of Gray Davis, Phil Angelides, Dianne Feinstein, and Kathleen Brown. And yes, I would do it all over again without hesitation.
It makes so sense whatsoever throwing away safe GOP Senate seats. Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran, Lindsey Graham, and Pat Roberts, while not perfect, are VASTLY superior to their Dem opponents.
Can anyone kindly identify one single Democrat running for a major office who is superior to his GOP opponent?
Can anyone kindly identify one single Democrat running for major office who is not effectively a proxy for BHO?
Say whatever you like about Cochran, Graham, Roberts, and McConnell, but all:
1) Voted against Obamacare
2) Voted against the Porkulus
3) Voted against Cap and Trade
4) Voted against Dodd-Frank
5) Voted against Harry Reid for Majority Leader
These facts alone are enough are sufficient reason to vote for all of them. Voting Dem is nothing short of insanity.
If you are looking for perfection or utopia, you will never find it in politics. I think it was RR who once said politics is the world’s second oldest profession.
I live in Massachusetts, just as much a liberal state, if not more so, than California.
I don’t vote for democrats but I also do not just vote for “r”’s anymore. I blanked my ballot in 2012 because I WOULD NOT vote again for Scott Brown. And if liberal republican Charlie Baker is nominated in the primary again tonight, I will blanking my ballot for him in November as well, like I did when he ran (and lost) in 2010. Though I may vote for a third party candidate.
I’ve through voting for moderate or liberal republicans, and have been working to weaken their support across the country, so hopefully a lot of them will be in their final terms since their support is dwindling (60% for McConnell and Cornyn, 56% for Graham, 50% for Cochran, 49% for Alexander, 47% for Roberts). Even if they win in November, it will be barely, and they’ll have to drain their “warchests” just to get barely by.
In any case, I will do absolutely nothing to help them. Their ilk has made it clear that they do not want my vote, so they can get reelected with the democrats and moderates that they seem to love so much.