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.
Hey, there’s plenty of healthy American kids just begging for the GOP’s promised amnesty to bring them the new polio and respiratory failure.
Since I’m an evil purist I won’t help grant them their wish, but you can if you like. Granted I wont have it on my conscience but that’s just me.
The point is that you work your butt off before the election getting the right guy nominated.
On election day, all bets are off. You have two choices.. Vote for harry reed or vote against him.
Writing in or not voting is a vote for harry reed and you know it.
The point is that you work your butt off before the election getting the right guy nominated.
On election day, all bets are off. You have two choices.. Vote for harry reed or vote against him.
Writing in or not voting is a vote for harry reed and you know it.
Good luck picking up those 3-4 seats running on nothing. The stoopid in the GOPe is strong.
Nope. I am not electing liberals of any party. If a conservative gets held off the ballot because the left wing of the right had to win at all costs, I write someone in. Clean conscience. No shame, No regret.
You do whatever.
Know what you call a battlefield populated by only enemies and traitors?
A target-rich environment.
I'll throw this same question to you that I've posted on a number of threads:
Can you name one thing that will happen in the Federal government in 2015 and 2016 with the Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate that would not happen with the Democrats in control?
They are using “we are not Obama”. Stupid? Maybe. But zero ran using “ I am not Bush”, twice, and won both times....
Great. So our path to victory is to become the Dems in propaganda as well as ‘principle’.
Big win.
Hey, there’s plenty of healthy American kids just begging for the GOP’s promised amnesty to bring them the new polio and respiratory failure.
Since I’m an evil purist I won’t help grant them their wish, but you can if you like. Granted I wont have it on my conscience but that’s just me.
Well maybe a special fairy will magically turn the protest votes and abstentions into a stunning conservative sweep of the house and senate. Then my conscience would be seared for not believing in the fairy.
But we have a number of folks here who think it's best that they spend all day kicking people out of the tent.....kick!! kick!! kick!!....until lo and behold, there are only two of them left and they start eyeing each other suspiciously.
No wonder this site does not have anything like the political clout it used to.
I’m voting for a select few conservatives.
Any candidate that shows even a slight wobbliness on amnesty or fag-marriage will never get my vote under any circumstances. I have nothing but utter hate and contempt for such candidates. These are people that have surrendered and joined with the traitorous Dems in turning America into the putrid sewer that it currently is. Vote for them? I want to personally throttle them.
What protest vote exactly? If I write a name in, it aint gonna be Yosemite Sam. It will be a conservative.
One of us votes for a conservative.
One of us does not.
Guess what critical thinking, logic and simple common sense shows as to which of the two was trying to get a conservative elected and which voted for someone who was not?
Thats because the site used to be filled with conservatives that lived by their stated beliefs. Today it has more big tent GOP types than it used to. thus the change.
I admit I've done that a couple of times in my voting history. And I expect I'll do it on occasion in the future. The GOP does not own me.
It's quite another thing to go off on tirades (oops.... I mean TIRADES!!!) about how Sen. Roberts is a leftist tool, or how McConnell is worse than Obama. These are clear signs that one's cranial tinfoil is wrapped too tight.
What protest vote exactly? If I write a name in, it aint gonna be Yosemite Sam. It will be a conservative.
One of us votes for a conservative.
One of us does not.
Guess what critical thinking, logic and simple common sense shows as to which of the two was trying to get a conservative elected and which voted for someone who was not?
Your critical thinking, logic and simple common sense will lead to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Good luck with that.
Miotch, Soetoro’s biotch, already vowed to crush Conservatives. Good luck with that. Your scare tactics ain’t workin.
IMHO, your premise is flawed. Of the 80%, or 50% or..., GOPe it matters more what ‘big ticket’ votes they supported as you.
For if you care greatly about deficit, illegals and rule of Law, but ‘s/he’ votes against those things BUT votes for slowing down the rate of growth/etc.; how much does it really matter they voted 50% WITH you?
Did they not put the shackles upon your hands and feet, just more stealthily?
As others have pointed out, even given a (R) majority, we still got the Patriot Act, TSA, etc. What usurped power was restored to We/States in that time??
IOW, I MAY support a GOP/RINO that votes the way I wish on those matter of import to ME; but I have yet to see ANY even attempting to buck the system, nor support our Constitution.
Not if the rest of you vote for a conservative. See how it works? You might as well because as all the recent threads show there are a bunch of us that USED to vote no matter what candidates in that just arent doing that anymore.
You WILL lose without us. And no, not just FR of course. Talk to people out there in Real Land. Many of them are of the same mind.
So join us or lose. your call. We aren’t budging. Nor do we care what you think of us as Americans, as people or as pond scum.
Miotch, Soetoro’s biotch, already vowed to crush Conservatives. Good luck with that. Your scare tactics ain’t workin.
OK you’ve convinced that I’m wrong. What’s the plan?
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