We are so much better off because those four million Republicans stayed home in 2012, NOT! Everyone who stayed home or voted for a libertarian candidate that did not have a chance to win out of protest did exactly what the Democrats wanted. May well have gone in to the booth and pulled a D lever.
Democrats will by putting up the candidates they need to win in certain states. They hold their nose and vote for them knowing owning the House or Senate majority is most important. We must do the same. Then it is simply a matter of getting the right people in leadership positions over time to carry the agenda.
Looks like u r a big Rove fan.
So the moderates and liberals you vote for are going to magically place conservatives in leadership roles.
As long as you’re dreaming, would you like a pony?
Soooo, you like being called a racist extremist tea bagger by your own party “leadership” and are willing to keep voting for people who call you that?
Then it is simply a matter of getting the right people in leadership positions over time to carry the agenda.LOL! Karl is that you?
How soon we forget. It wasn't that long ago we put in the the "compassionate conservative" who brought "a new tone". We had all the branches we even had judges...you know like Roberts, the one that rammed Obamacare down our throats.
Never again. Whether we stay home or vote, the end result is the same with the E-republican
Voting for a name without a substantial policy difference is meaningless. The Democrats wanted it, and so did the GOPe.
Pound Sand.
Blacks and the Tea Party people are each being treated the same by their respective parties. They expect obedience while getting abused by the leadership.
Blacks should abandon the Democrats, and the Tea Party should abandon the Republicans, for the same reason.
Btw, it was posted on FR that both McCain and Romney could prove vote fraud and chose to overlook it. What'd we lose but spineless liberals. They're Dems with an "R" behind their name.
blaming those who “stayed home” is stupid and retarded. The GOP nominated a loser and he lost.
The GOP should never have thought a Northeast Liberal was going to win as their candidate
This strategy is a proven failure. Republicans put forth mediocre candidates, or candidates that seem to be more Democrat than they are Republican. Take John McCain for instance. These same morons, also go after their Republican competition with a vengeance. But when it comes time campaign against the Democrat, it is more pathetic than two four-year olds pillow fighting.
Time and time again, the Republican Party cries that if people don't rally around the nominated Republican, the world will end. Guess what, it hasn't ended yet. And when we do hold our nose and pull that lever, hoping for the best, we get stabbed in the backed, ridiculed by our own party, see conservative concepts and belief minimized and just taken for a pack of fools.
Sometimes the doctor has to amputate a limb to save a patient. Conservatives are tired of rolling over and voting for a RINO. What's the point. If they can't get the message, or just choose not to read the tea leaves, then maybe it really is time for a third party.
The problem is that you have a group of liberals determined to elect more of their kind as long as an R is attached. This latest carved in steel example shows how liberal the GOP is.
Before any serious identification of people in office, we need to finally have the serious identification of who ‘we’ are individually. No one wants to have that come to Jesus meeting because it is going to be a major blow up in which no one can keep pretending their online BFF is a ‘staunch rock ribbed conservative’ anymore.
When a person spends their days using FR as a tool to promote the RINO wing ‘no matter what’...as many do every day, they stand in opposition to everything conservatives identify as conservative. So what is their purpose? It isn’t promoting conservative candidates. They consistently promote RINOs OVER conservative to WIN!!!!
Look what they won.
Once again we mistakenly named ‘purists’ have been proven 100% right. Everything we said has happened. And we are villified for what? practicing principle instead of situational ethics.
Until conservatism here and everywhere defines who and what it is we actually believe in, we go nowhere because under the current system, the RINOs and open libs are doing a bang up job keeping our guys out of power and using our ‘institutions to do it.
And cults of personality are a big part of why.
What will a Senate Majority run by Mitch McConnell expect to accomplish other than giving the Obama and the Democrats cover for the country going into the tank in the next two years?
Unless McConnell and Cochran lose their seats in November, nothing is going to change in the Senate except that McConnell will make all the Republicans in the Senate look like the idiots that he is.
Never, voting RINO is the same as voting Democrap
I voted for both AND I voted for neither according to the twisted "logic" of the GOP-E ruling class surrender monkeys.
If my refusal to vote for your spineless Demonrat candidate in GOP drag displeases you because you may pay higher taxes, toooooo baaaaad. I would count that a good thing and justice. Generations of soldiers (None in Romney's direct family line) fought and died to give each and every one of us the right to vote as we individually please whether the GOP lapdogs and perfumed pampered princes, like it or not.
I shall vote for the candidate I deem in MY judgment to be best for the USA. In 2012, for the first time since I first voted, I cast a non-Republican POTUS vote and it was not for Obozo. I shall NEVER vote for an Establishment GOP whore again as I did for Nixon, Ford (PU!), Bush the Elder, Robert "Tax Collector for the Welfare State" Dole or John McCain ever again! If the GOP wants my vote, it will have to nominate candidates worth voting on their own merits. No more "But he's not Obozo!" If the GOP continues to nominate the trash that it has nominated for sooooo long other than Ronaldus Maximus and, maybe, Bush the Younger, it will die as did the Federalists and the Whigs before it. Cause of death? Greed as is traditional.
No more waiting! No more excuses! No more pie in the sky, bye and bye, while the GOP obeys every order of the US Chamber of Crony Socialism! It is over.
Sorry. Don’t work that way anymore. Ask fatbody just why that is. YOU do NOT own my vote. The lesser evil is not gonna get it anymore. Ideals and principles rule.
If, or when, push comes to shove, I’ll be around to clean up your mess, but know that it will be YOUR mess, for voting Rove and company.