Posted on 10/18/2014 4:45:34 AM PDT by chrisnj
Many conservative voters are disillusioned at the Republicans for not standing up for their principles, for compromising with the Democrats, for having no spines etc. etc. They vow not to vote for the Republicans, or outright vote for the Democrats, to send them a message, to teach them a lesson. I think this kind of message/lesson serves no purpose but to cut off your own supply of oxygen.
Almost all the Republicans rejected obumbocrap (obamacare) but Harry Reid and his crooked Dems jammed it through deviously. The House Republicans have passed many legislations to repeal obumbocrap but Reid et al killed them all. The House Republicans have passed many good legislations but Reid and his crooks buried them all. The media blasted the Republicans on all their good constitutional/conservative acts, but remained silent on the Democrats' constant acts to destroy the constitution. This is a known fact and all of us always complain about it. Yet we are not showing any understanding of the difficult situations facing the House Republicans. While the Dem voters are behind their Dems 100%, we are demanding perfection while offering no help. We blame the Republicans for this and that but we are not working hard to create an opportunity or situation where they can stand on their principles and serve us faithfully. Why don't we vote them into majority in both House and Senate, so they have more control and feel less pressured to compromise, but more encouraged to listen to us to enact constitutional legislations for the good of the country. This is not excuses for the Republicans' non-performance. It is simply a fact that a good person can only do so much under difficult situations! We should understand that it is human nature to be rather weak, especially when under pressure. But given the favorable situations we are more likely to stand up taller for our principles. Remember when the Republicans were the majority in both Houses - even with a Democrat president Clinton, Congress was able to serve the people well! So if we are able to vote the Republicans into the majority, we just might be able to influence them into reversing the course to get our country back on the right track. Considering that many people have awaken and patriots are much more enthusiatically engaged in shaping government policies, we can realistically hope to get better leaders who will listen to the people again. All we need to do is unite and vote the crooks out but vote the acceptable albeit imperfect Republican candidates in, then work hard to influence them...
Certainly, with rampant voter fraud, ignorant and low-information voters, AND, the conservatives who vow to stay home or vote for the Dems, there is no hope that the Republicans will be in control of both Houses. It was said that those conservatives who wouldn't vote for the Republicans are part of the reasons why the Dems won the elections. So these conservatives are in effect cutting off the supply of oxygen to their own hopes (and our hopes)!
History suggests that the Republicans are more constitution-abiding leaders. We need to create the opportunities for them to abide to the constituion - by voting them into majority and then pressuring them into serving the people the way they should.
You also see me and others say we are going to go down fighting.
The purist crowd does not intend to win. They just want to go out — that is, to LOSE — fighting.
This is exactly why we don’t need to listen to these people.
It would be interesting if you keep up with current events or do a search. Plenty of us discussed it for 2 days now.
And if you don’t care what they say then it is pretty freaking LIV of you to vote at all.
Embrace the Suck - Vote GOPe.
Not me.
“Sure. Except it was ALSO the GOP that stood there SILENTLY while Zero scattered the illegals across the country with their new polio and SILENTLY for weeks as ebola advanced.
They are completely responsible as silence is consent.”
They weren’t silent...I heard many call this out. However what did you propose beyond that they do? Impeach? I’m sorry but that action would guaruntee not another conservative sees the light of the White House ever again. We haven’t seen it in 26 years already. Now you must ask yourself why hasn’t a conservative seen the White House in that long?
Ah...one does not fight with a DESIRE to lose dipstick. Because we see that thanks to people like you we arent going to win is no reason to stop fighting you or to deny that your liberalism continues to destroy America.
As I said, my post history is there for all to read IN CONTEXT. And I encourage anyone caring about it to do that very thing.
You GOPe shills keep pounding the table because you have no facts and no evidence. This is not RINO central. It is FreeRepublic. A fact wasted on you little pea liberal brain.
I heard about 5. The leadership and the majority said nothing.
I don't like to wear black suits-- they remind me of funerals. And since my color vision is not too good, I avoid navy blue suits too-- it's the principal of the thing.
....there are people posting here on FR who are here to convince us that the republicans aren’t conservative enough.
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I guess they’re Conservative enough. I’m just having a hard time getting past what Cochran, Barbour and McConnell did in Mississippi. And, McConnell threatening to “crush” the Tea Party. I’m having a hard time getting over those things, and yes, I am one vindictive a**hole.
HE WHO DOES NOT LIKE REVENGE HAS NEVER TASTED IT!
Black can be quite slimming though.
The list looks good to me.
But you’ll offend a democrat!!!!
God forbid that FR should go the way of National Review and other once-conservative sources! The Rove-Romney cabal could certainly buy FR were it for sale. We don’t appreciate enough how lucky we are.
Just look at the fake ‘conservatives stayed home in 2012’ argument that gets repeated endlessly without a single fact to back it up.
I doubt 90% of the GOPe can support all five of your principles. That’s how out of touch they are.
Oh they have lots of ‘facts’ just like they are ‘conservative’. Neither of which they can back up...but still!
The “purists” were primarily in SW Missouri, around Springfield. They took issue with Talent’s support for certain medical research.
We might have known. Manhood at stake? You have issues there little fella? You should go talk to someone.
Pounding the table. ... just like, surprise, liberals. They wouldn’t vote for a Conservative either. It’s all lefty BS.
And the reality that half of this thread is willing to abandon those core issues shows how liberal so called ‘conservatives’ have become.
Pretty obvious why the GOP is as lib as ‘it’ has become.
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