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God Save Us from the Loud ‘I’m Staying Home This Year’ Conservatives
National Review-Campaign Spot ^ | 9-30-2014 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 10/01/2014 3:18:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing

NATIONAL REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 12:34 PM

God Save Us from the Loud 'I'm Staying Home This Year' Conservatives

By Jim Geraghty

A few thoughts from the middle of the day . . .

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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To: txhurl

Not accepted. But its nice to know that the GOPe wing is every bit the Democrats they appear to be.


421 posted on 10/01/2014 10:34:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Pelham

Nah, let the lurkers see that the GOPE sycophants have to resort to that when they can’t argue fact. Doesn’t hurt my feelings to be called names by cheshire frauds.


422 posted on 10/01/2014 10:36:20 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

OK, you two percenters just carry on.

The rest of the Nation understands the urgency of ditching the Democrats.


423 posted on 10/01/2014 10:36:26 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

Homophobe ;)


424 posted on 10/01/2014 10:37:23 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: campaignPete R-CT
Fr. Daly's mother's maiden name was Duggan which was the maiden name of my grandmother from Cork. You never know. It may have been genetic that he would not vote for Myth.

A couple of bright spots in Connecticut are the retirements of Cafero and McKinney.

What about New Hampshire CD 1 Frank Giunta and CD 2 Marilinda Garcia (lovely, youngish, pro-life, half Hispanic/half Italian and apparently thoroughly conservative)? Garcia teaches harp music when she is not protecting citizens in the state legislature. I don't think she is married. She almost has to be Catholic. You should get up to Coos County or wherever she is headquartered and meet her before it is too late.

425 posted on 10/01/2014 10:37:45 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

You have a point. They hurt themselves by engaging in that sort of behavior.


426 posted on 10/01/2014 10:37:58 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I actually love queers. In fact, I am queer.

What I despise is FR Harry Reid Fan Club members.


427 posted on 10/01/2014 10:38:33 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Pelham

They are what they are. Liberals to the core. Just look at this thread. They refuse to debate records. Refuse to debate outcomes. Refuse to admit documented history. All they have is Alynski.

And a script that’s 30 years old.

They hurt themselves more than us. But if they really believed in conservatism they would fight with us/alongside us. Instead, they fight for moderation lesser evil and the no matter what mentality.

they are who they appear to be.


428 posted on 10/01/2014 10:41:39 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Is Bill Cotter still active in Boston, Massachusetts? He ran Operation Rescue there and was close to MCFL. He is probably in his 60s and is the best natural born politician I ever met in pro-life circles. He had the Boston police union publicly praising him in the newspapers and apologizing for arresting pro-lifers some time around the late 1980s.


429 posted on 10/01/2014 10:41:45 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: txhurl

What’s that joke about Texas? I guess it must be partly true then. Sorry, rest of Texas. We know this lib isn’t your fault.


430 posted on 10/01/2014 10:43:39 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

You are the joke of FR.


431 posted on 10/01/2014 10:47:38 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

At least hit me with your purse or something.


432 posted on 10/01/2014 10:48:37 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Hot Tabasco
Right on brother! Vote for the winner of the primary.......don't stay home and pout.

Nope, solution is even simpler than that.

You support Abortion or the Gay agenda, you don't get my vote period. I won't stay home, I will vote for a third-party candidate that is Pro-Life and won't promote the Sodomy Agenda, and you, and the other unprincipled party hacks can go pound sand!
433 posted on 10/01/2014 10:48:51 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Hell we have self admitted gay freepers coming out of the closet on this thread and demanding we elect GOPe libs!

The agenda is here too now it seems.


434 posted on 10/01/2014 10:50:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: txhurl
At least we got all the ‘conscientious protesters’ or PLEASE KEEP HARRY REID IN CONTROL OF THE SENATE louses corralled on one thread. Thank God your mouths and votes are like homos: 2% of the population but 55% of the NOISE.

Well then, why all the vitriol against principled Conservatives on a CONSERVATIVE forum if we are only 2% of the population?

Why all the snark about those of us who will never again vote for a liberal Republican REGARDLESS what election cycle it is?

Why all the hand-wringing and worrying about Reid remaining in charge of the Senate if Principled Conservatives are only 2% of your party?

Go pander to Mexican Nationals and 'moderates' for whatever votes your party needs if you are want your party bosses in charge of expanding government.

Principled Conservatives are only 2% according to you - so no worries for you and yours is there?

Good luck without us.

435 posted on 10/01/2014 10:58:38 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

See post 427 for the answer. Someone has another agenda


436 posted on 10/01/2014 11:01:20 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: freedumb2003
Thank you for the result.

You, and the other jack-asses on this thread who want to blame conservatives for Obama can thank that Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney and his support of Abortion (Baby Killing) and his support for the Gay Agenda and his utter and complete lack of anything conservative with respect to his policies and his total refusal to attack Obama on any of his Marxist behavior for Obama.

As for 2008, same thing goes for McCain.

As for your evil little game of blaming conservatives, you can pound sand jackass!
437 posted on 10/01/2014 11:02:03 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: freedumb2003; OneWingedShark
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke


Too bad Romney didn't heed that great quote.

He Supported Abortion
He Supported the Gay Agenda
He absolutely refused to take the fight to Obama

He laid down and gave up.
438 posted on 10/01/2014 11:03:56 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: txhurl
No problem firing Harry Reid BUT... keep the horse before the cart. RINO GOP-E must be destroyed once and for all. Not after they have ignored our issues or worked against them as hard as Whorehouse Harry. Not when they just want control of the Senate for the jobs, the contracts and the opportunity to play Let's Make a Deal with Obozo: Tax cuts for billionaires in exchange for two communist SCOTUS judges to be be named later and ratified by 80% of the Senate.

Given Haley Boss Hogg Barbour's shenanigans and Thad Cockroach's obvious case of advanced senility, would you vote for Cockroach to reward Barbour and give him a prompt vacancy into which he can muscle one of his nephews? I wouldn't. Travis Childers is pro-life, pro-gun, pro-America even as a Democrat. Cockroach probably couldn't define any of those terms much less live up to them.

We will punish the RINOs of the GOP-E at EVERY opportunity. In American politics, it is job #1 and will be until the very last one is strangled politically.

Voting for the "most conservative candidate available" is a prescription for serious trouble by way of the advancing issue degeneracy of the GOP and, therefore, of the USA. If there is one thing that Bill Buckley should never have said, that's the one.

439 posted on 10/01/2014 11:03:58 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: BlackElk

I confused Daly with some other clergyman who skipped 2012, first time ever.

Daly has probably never voted for a Republican. Not even his parishioner Len, when Daly was in Meriden. Daly was in the Gaffey clique. But the fact he was only voted in one primary ever disproves the theory that he’s a genuine leftist operative. He’s just a silly man.

http://connvoters.com/by_number/0020/29232.html

I’ve been told that I am engaged.


440 posted on 10/01/2014 11:08:27 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead. Let the GOP bury the GOP.)
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