Posted on 10/01/2014 3:18:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing
NATIONAL REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 12:34 PM
God save us from self-professed "conservatives" who will announce they'll stay home on Election Day as a demonstration of their power.
Because as we all know, you become more influential in politics and government and public life by staying home and doing less.
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Does the "I'm staying home" crowd apply this to everything in life? "I don't like the way the company is run, so I'm not going to work."
"Honey, I'm just not happy with your performance as a spouse, so I'm going to be less active in the marriage until you improve."
"Kids, I'm disappointed with your performance in school. Until you improve, I'm ignoring you."
The thing is, I wonder how often the "I'm staying home this year" crowd voted before. In fact, I wonder if they ever vote.
I don't understand the "I've never been more fearful for the future of this country, but I'm not willing to do anything about it" mentality.
Ronald Reagan is not walking through that door, folks.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The GOPe in MS picked up on this point and said "Honey, I'm just not happy with you so I'm going out whoring with Democrats until you do as I say."
The problem is this: if you are a conservative, both parties are currently opposition parties.
The sad fact is, it didn’t have to be this way.
That said, it’s the establishment telling conservatives that they need to learn their place and are now witching and moaning because of the all too foreseeable result of their scortched-conservative politics.
I wish the GOPe would learn if they support conservatives, all republicans would vote, instead they choose to divide and lose.
Great read. I too wonder how many of these perfectionists have ever voted.
The fault, my friend, lies with the GOPe and nobody else.
I voted for Romney in 2012. But I won’t be making that mistake again.
No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.
In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.
Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.
As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.
Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?
Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor — had he not been defeated — or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn’t go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?
Ask yourself — which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer — a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?
You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don’t have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a “moderately marginal” course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?
The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.
A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.
Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.
Once again, these are the times that try men’s souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts — in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.
Many argue that we must continue to vote for “the most electable conservative,” which means “vote for the RINO if no conservative is running.” But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.
If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let’s at least be fighting for it when it goes down.
And who knows, maybe — just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction — divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the “new birth of freedom” that Lincoln called for a century later.
If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.
To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.
And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles — war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.
The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.
Yes, having Harry Reid continue as majority leader is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.
And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle” to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame for the horrific damage that they have unleashed on our country in the last five years.
America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?
You think Mitch McConnell’s senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obama’s left wing Supreme Court nominations?
America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.
But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to a recent panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.
So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party — anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.
Think about it.
Why the worry there Jim?
Your party declared war on Conservatives, vowed to “crush” us “wherever” we “are found”, asserted we would never be able to field a Conservative candidate in a general election ever again.
So don’t fret about us staying home or writing-in Conservatives instead of voting for your Ruling Class party hacks. Go get the votes you need from your ‘moderate’ friends and your Mexican constituents you want to replace us as the base.
We’re done with your party until you support Conservatives and our principles - PERIOD.
The term “tough love” comes to mind. If the GOP doesn’t win the senate, they (GOP-e) will regret their tactics.
Yep, we will never forget being “Thadded”
Agreed.
The time to get a conservative candidate is in the primaries, and if they can’t convince (which unfortunately, it seems that most of them can’t), then vote for whoever has managed to convince. It’s all a numbers game, and the GOP will be completely powerless without majorities.
The similarity between you and the Obama leftists: a preening sense of moral superiority.
The difference: They win because of people like you
Harry Reid thanks you for your support as Hillary is likely to do in a few years.
He would look at how the repubs have been behaving, and think, "Oh no, the left wing of the democrat party has won".
Then, seeing how the dems have been behaving, think, "Oh NO! Nikita was right! The communists have won".
More Freepers need to read Article I Section 1 of the Constitution and think seriously about it.
At least we’re “loud” about what we believe and what the GOP is SUPPOSED to be doing vs. what they are doing...the GOP kicked us to the curb...but we’re still supposed to fill the coffers?
‘eff ‘em.
There's your fallacy, right there.
Same group that wouldn’t vote for Romney because he’;s a MORMON!!!! How’s that work out??? Idiots......they don’t care that the SURVIVAL of the USA hangs in the balance....they only care about their “stance” and how great and superior it makes them feel.
You cannot be as stupid as you write.....you’re a Freeper for God’s sake....SNAP OUT OF IT!!!
Another Diqwad who thinks we owe fealty to politicians.
Well, you’ll regret your own tactics. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...giving the Dems a majority does NOTHING to help conservative GOPers either.
Work for your favored conservative in the primaries but then vote to get the numbers. The Cochran thing was horrible, but I don’t think it’s typical - MS politics have always been super corrupt and family-controlled - so while the GOP might incline to RINOs, if you can get enough people behind a candidate and get the money to support that candidate, you’ll get your candidate.
But that means everybody has got to work harder for their candidate, along with contributing more, and also that the candidates have got to stop thinking they can rely on the “base” to get them over the top. They have to have a broader appeal, and unfortunately, few of them do and they seem to spend a lot of time preening over their conservative credentials and not reaching out for voters - again, it’s all about numbers.
I guess you are.
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