Fed up with the GOP Establishment? That's no reason to stay home on Election Day

American Thinker ^ | 9/26/2014 | Carol Brown

[markomalley]

With the mid-term elections weeks away, many conservatives are confronting a difficult choice. Assuming there are no solid conservatives on the ballot, do we vote for establishment candidates? Or not vote at all?

The reasons why some conservatives are on the fence or planning not to vote are well known. (And Democrats are loving every minute of it!)

• “Establishment Republicans have attacked us and I refuse to support any of them.”
• “I’m sick of RINO’s. They’re no better than the Democrats.”
• “Other than a few strong conservatives, the rest of the GOP stands for nothing.”

I share these frustrations.

[roamer_1]

IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING to insist upon statesmen, you will be left with mere politicians.

[trubolotta]

My Senators are Kirk and Durbin. (Please, no condolences, I’m desensitized to it.) I’m leaving this state next year. People that accept those two and many more like them as leaders are mentally deranged and can’t figure out why the cost of living is so high, jobs are so few and regulations are so plentiful.

[trubolotta]

I truly admire Ted Cruz and I do understand he has a role in the party and must maintain some rapport with the leadership. What he must do publicly we can see, but what he may think privately must remain hidden. I don’t know and I won’t second guess him but it is his place to be a diplomat and mine to fight in the trenches.

[walford]

If the GOP establishment continues to disregard the base [by nominating RINOs] it is not reasonable for them to expect continued support.

If Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney are rammed down our throats, it might be necessary to consider building a 3rd Party to replace the GOP as it replaced the Whig Party because it ceased to be relevant.

[cableguymn]

far left.. slightly right...

They are both the gas boy at the pump.

Your not changing my mind. you line up and vote for the impostors. that is your right to fall for their line of BS after you have been warned.

[flaglady47]

“You are all so irrelevant to those doing battle on the front lines as you slouch and whine behind the lines in your foxholes sniping ineffectively at your own side. Carry on!”

Oh, your whole post is wonderfully well put. Bravo.

[what's up]

Cruz isn't a diplomat; he has a history of telling it like it is which is what people like about him.

In this case, he knows the importance of the GOP getting hold of the chairmanships. He's a wise man.

[trebb]

far left.. slightly right... They are both the gas boy at the pump. Your not changing my mind. you line up and vote for the impostors. that is your right to fall for their line of BS after you have been warned.

You have just made a lot of Dims very happy because they know there is no valid opposition among the competition.

Anyone who, now after the second term of Obama is well under way, cannot see the difference that Romney would have made is either challenged or a/an (fill in the blank).

[trubolotta]

Come now. You must be joking. Cruz is a diplomat and too smart to burn his bridges behind him.

[cableguymn]

like medicare part D?

That type of new social heath care program???

The GOPe made their bed, they moved so far left they left their base behind and now they are fighting with the rats for the same voter base. They will lose every time because socialist light is not acceptable to the socialist nor the right/far right..

They have managed to piss off the very people they need to stay in power by acting like the party they are suppose to be against...

Can’t blame me for that.

[cableguymn]

Are you resorting to name calling??

wow... shows you lost the argument.

and your right, between the Rats and the Pubs there is no valid opposition among the competition.

[Alberta's Child]

I suspect many Republicans don't campaign well because they're not professional politicians.

I know he has a lot of detractors here on FreeRepublic (for good reason), but Chris Christie owes his success to the fact that he is a superb campaigner. He probably doesn't have a future in elected office outside of New Jersey because his approach will rub a lot of Americans the wrong way, but that guy really knows how to get a message across and belittle his opponent effectively in a classic New Jersey way.

[Alberta's Child]

Clinton wanted to spend-spend-spend his way out of a recession, but the GOP stopped him. He also wanted Healthcare reform [Hillary Care].

The Republicans stopped none of this. Clinton had a Democratic House and Senate for his first two years in office (1993-94), so it was actually Democrats who stopped Hillary Care dead in its tracks.

Maybe the Republicans came up with a good plan in 1994, but that just meant they put the whole idea of "spend-spend-spend out of a recession" on the back burner until the GOP controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress from 2001-06.

The first Federal budget submitted by President George W. Bush (in 2001) was for $2.0 trillion. The last one, submitted in 2008, was for $3.1 trillion -- a 55% increase in Federal spending in just eight years. The Republicans controlled at least one House of Congress for his entire term in office.

Yeah, that GOP sure is the party of fiscal responsibility, isn't it?

[ncpatriot]

I’m female and plan to vote because I’m thankful, as a woman, for that right. I’m American and know how much my ancestors sacrificed so that I could vote; so I plan to vote. I WILL vote.

[Alberta's Child]

A particularly disgraceful aspect of that racist ad campaign was that it was launched for the sole purpose of preserving the political career of a useless old fool who had previously announced that he was going to be retiring anyway.

Sending Thad Cochrane back to the U.S. Senate is like giving an organ transplant to someone who just celebrated his 103rd birthday.

[cableguymn]

didn’t they do that by propping him up for the election??

Guy is old as dirt and hardly knows who he is anymore.

[pfony1]

Really?

MY...”Bosses in the GOPe”?

Really?? Isn’t name-calling what the DUmmies do?

For some reason, DUmmies think playing “dirty tricks” is good politics.

And so, for their “cause”, they find they like vote fraud, they like running stealth Democrats as members of fake third parties, they like using fake documents to discredit real conservatives, and they like stirring up dissention among real conservatives by pretending to be “righteous” (but “angry and narcissistic”) tea-party conservatives.

For real conservatives, this election in 2014 is serious.

We don’t want Holder on the Supreme Court. His positions on God and Guns are well-known. As is his hatred of America. IMHO, Justice Ginsberg better watch out...

For DUmmies, this election is just a small part of a sinister, cynical game.

Still, if you want to pick up your “marbles” and go home, no conservative will stop you.

[rdb3]

The root problem here is that self-identified “conservatives” don’t have a unitary idea of what being “conservative” (or, what they want to “conserve”) means.

Nailed it!

Ask 3 "true conservatives" what conservatism means, and you'll get 5 different answers.

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.

[Kackikat]

LIKE I SAID....Democrat troll seeking votes.
In Mississippi and Kentucky they need to turn out in force and vote for the Democrat. It is the only way to teach the GOPe a lesson about using race baiting tactics against their own side.

Reagan’s 10 principle was always be Anti-Communist and Dems are communists, period.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Sadly, she's right with what she says. Even if the GOPe is Democrat-Lite, it is still Democrat-Lite, rather than high-octane Democrat. "

She might be right for you, but I have a differing POV.

"And, yes, I can hear the howling and screaming. But it comes down to this: the primaries are over and the candidates are selected. It is now our choice to vote for the most conservative (or least leftist) of the candidates that have a possibility of winning. Unless you want Øbøngø to have a Harry Reid-controlled Senate that will be a total rubber stamp. (and the distinct possibility of a Stretch Pelosi-controlled House, to boot)"

Who's howling and screaming?

This is the thing. If I'm faced with two candidates---one a Democrat, one a Republican---and they're both pro-queer, pro-abortion, and pro-amnesty, I'm not going to cast a ballot for either one.

Where does the "lite" come in, exactly? If a Republican supports queer marriage, that's a blasphemous perversion of sacred vows insituted by God. If he supports abortion, he's fine with murder of innocents.

Do you think God will judge those to be "lite" sins because the guy has an R after his name?