Posted on 09/26/2014 3:51:06 AM PDT by 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!)
I share these frustrations.
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Jarvis is a troll that refuses to go away.
Please do not quote the Bible because a christian would never vote for a democrat, period.
All of the brow-beating, name calling, bile-spewing, etc. serves to tell me that the GOPe cannot come up with a single, solitary, well articulated reason to vote FOR them, as opposed to AGAINST someone else.
The vitriol, hatred, and underhanded tactics employed tell me that the GOPe has no intention of governing conservatively. Not even a little bit.
The fact that some Freepers scream “purist” and try to lambaste anyone who sets forth a line in the sand based on even minimal principles (such as not happily accepting a “racist” label in Mississippi) tells me that the rebellion against the GOPe is being successful.
It is amazing that so many cry foul against those who have warned time and again that the party’s trajectory is suicidally leftward, and that they will soon cross the boundary between minimally acceptable and unacceptable.
And still it is the principled conservatives’ fault for being honest and forthright, or so it would seem. If the stakes weren’t so high, and the behavior of the party elite so egregious, this would all be comical.
Many of those who threaten to withhold their vote now warned the very people pushing them to forsake their principles that they would not cross that line. And yet it is the conservatives' fault because they were honest and committed not to a party, but to a principle.
Committing treason? If upholding conservative principles is committing treason against the party, then perhaps the party should consider why they believe themselves entitled to the conservative's vote.
It's almost humorous to see the arguments that get promulgated.
I fail to see evidence that the party is moving to the right. Quite the opposite, in fact. Or is amnesty now a right-wing conservative position?
Why is it assumed we have to pic which pile of shit to step in??
Why can't we choose to step in neither??
Who doesn't understand their actions??
Been hearing that the past 3 or 4 election cycles....is it really true this time?
Just making observations and giving others food for thought. The fact that Obama got a second term shows I lost the argument a few years ago - if Hillary or another far-left Dim gets in this time, it will show that I lost the argument again - - - and prove my points.
Ol’ Everett McKinley Dirksen understood how liberal IL voters are; that’s why he cozied up to LBJ whenever he could, delivering critical Senate votes when needed, to keep the home folks happy.
Amnesty is suddenly a back burner issue...or have you not noticed. Seems like lately all pols in the states that matter are running away...and even McCain doesn’t bring it up. That comes from people like Ted Cruz that won’t let them get away with it!!
And some of his staunchest supporters were OTHER CONSERVATIVES like Mike Enzi and Pat Roberts, but that didn't stop numerous freepers from demanding their heads on a platter during the next primary, or even rooting for a marxist Demcorat to defeat them in the general election in order to "teach the GOP a lesson"
So clearly it doesn't matter to these "Tea Party patriots" whether their Republican Senator is part of the Ted Cruz wing of the party or not. EITHER WAY, they'll oppose them simply because they're an incumbent.
No wonder the RATs win when we have "conservatives" vowing to defeat their most reliable allies in Washington.
Ah, but they have not repudiated it. They are only not talking about it.
Those who did not vote Republican in 2012 have the blood of all the Christians ISIS has killed on their hands. I’m not the judge, but God will be, because it was their responsibility to keep out the c- baby killers and Islam in WH.
When you know what is residing in WH there is a responsibility to get it out. The Lesser of two evils is still more lives saved. Do not want to be in your shoes in the hereafter, as now those beheaded in heaven are crying out to be avenged to the Lord.
Israel wandered in desert 40 yrs because of their whining and complaining....that is why they didn’t enter the promise land until all those died.
Um no...the blood of the Christians ISIS has killed is on ISIS hands.
“I’m not the judge, but God will be, because it was their responsibility to keep out the c- baby killers and Islam in WH.”
Yet in your next paragraph you imply how God will judge as though you know. And apparently how one voted in the 2012 election will weigh heavily on that judgement.
“When you know what is residing in WH there is a responsibility to get it out.”
Couldn't agree more. And the GOPe failed in that regard by nominating a Liberal RINO in 2012 (2008 also).
“The Lesser of two evils is still more lives saved.”
The lesser of two evils is still evil. Do we really know how many lives will or will not be saved by supporting evil-lite?? I’m not the judge, but supporting evil of any degree might not sit well with the One who will judge. Don't know if I'd want to be in the shoes of anyone who supported such.
Keeping the current GOPe leadership in power, will only encourage them to keep crapping on Conservatives in the primaries; because we'll fall in line in the general election and vote RINO regardless.
You nor any other person will NEVER CHANGE ANYTHING BY NOT VOTING, PERIOD.
The change is limited to personal self esteem and enhancement of the sanctimonious self righteousness. Both are enhanced.
“Just shut up and grab your ankles, again”. Nope. GOP can KMA
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