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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And just for the sake of argument, if a Republican voted with the Democrats half the time and with the Republicans half the time that would be better than Democrats who voted with their party 98% of the time, which is what progressives do
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.
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)
I’m not staying home, but I am not a republican, I am a conservative. Why should I vote for people who stand next to democrats and effectively state “Me, too!”
Yeah let's elect these guys, that'll solve the problem. /s
Hang the lot of em! No Incumbents!
Those who backstabbed Constitutional Conservatives should not be voted for. There's just been too much evidence that for the DC RINO elite, the enemy they fight is conservatives. If they win after their outrages this primary season and their always having just enough votes to support Obama's agenda, we enable them to continue to do so.
I agree 100% but the purists will scream about the rinos and gope and betrayal and incest {incest? where did that come from?}.
I'm staying home and not voting because i luv obama and harry reid is so fair and balanced and is better than mitch mcconnel, and the pubbies have betrayed us too often, so there. nananana.
The end of the National GOP is the only way to eradicate the vermin who have betrayed our country. The problem we have is that we only think in election cycles instead of generations. I’d much rather toss my vote in the trash than have a Jeb Bush or John McCain receive it.
I categorically refuse to support a party that’s using blackmail to obtain my vote.
I wonder if Carol Brown has contacted John Warner, who endorsed the democrat for senate in VA. Or Richard Lugar, who endorsed the democrat for senate in GA. Or former republican governor Millken, who endorsed the democrat for senate in MI. Or the moderate republicans who are endorsing Orman in KS.
The Establishment went all out this year to box us in this way, “hey, you’ll just have to vote for our guy.” But their pals endorse and support democrats and nothing is said.
This “we all must come together” talk is nothing but a sham, and all too convenient.
People end up getting the kind of government they deserve.
No way. It never ceases to amaze me how much people underestimate the congressional offices, or the fact that there often doesn’t seem to be the vision to work at Congress bit by bit. I would prefer a POTUS and Congress who argue with each other above all else, anything less than the major deficits now, and a removal of a worthless House Speaker, would be something good.
They actually unite in their support too, conservatives could do something, if they weren’t so focused on all fighting for their own “pure conservativism”.
we need to start a.campaign.to make “no incumbants” a popluar vote
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.
The revolutionary left has a consensus program. The anti-GOPe right does not.
When I became chairman of a Christian school 9 years ago (which I thought would be easy LOL), the first thing I encountered (for the first time in my life) was the “so-and-so is not a real Christian” thing, which it turns out is a minor obsession for a lot of self-identified “Christians”. Movement conservatism has some similar aspects.
If your political circle is small, and made up of all like-minded people, you can easily believe that what you all believe and what you all want is, by definition, “being conservative”.
Once you meet a few more people, it’s easy to find some who are not totally on board your particular ship.
I agree with the astute point that Steve Forbes made during a radio interview last weekend:
The issue isn't whether or not the Republican Party will win control of the Senate ... it's whether or not they'd use their majority to govern effectively at all.
There is no choice because not voting is a vote for the democrats which unfortunately a lesser of two evils but hopefully those elected will read the bills they pass.
And there you have it. This is the attitude that put BO in for a second term and will, I fear, allow the Dems to keep control of congress. Sometimes you just have to work through the smell and do the best you can at the time, tho this is not a popular concept among some on FR.
I am looking at every race to see how I can vote against Harry Reid. Being in Florida does not mean I can’t make a difference.
I despise RINOs and refuse to support the GOP but I WILL VOTE to take the Senate and keep the House!
sounds good! NO incumBATANTS (need no person that ‘fights’ with CONSERVATIVES) their base that they have rode on the backs of all way to power! time to relinquish!
Mike
You know what you get with a Dem in office. You never know what a Republican will do. That is the problem.
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