For stay-at-home Republican voters.
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.
This election is do or die, literally, for everyone who opposes Obama.Uniting behind the
republican candidates is the only way to stop Obama, even then it is going to be an uphill
battle. I know that Libertarians thought that this was going to be there big opportunity, but it is not.
Sorry, but your timing is off.
Word wrap is off and I don’t know how to fix it.
When it gets to the general, voting for someone other than the RINO or not voting at all will certainly make us feel good, but in reality the only thing it does -- the only thing -- is help elect the Democrat-Socialist.
If we can't "send the message" in the primary, we sure as hell aren't going to send that message by losing in the general. (And believe me, it hurts to say that.)
So join us or lose. your call.
OK, I’m onboard. What’s the plan.
For stay-at-home Republican voters.
“This election is do or die”
Same thing I was told last time. And they really meant it then too. Yet here we are.
Bfl
Then elect more RINOS and stop trying to tell the rest of us to share your situational ethics because our principles will not be compromised.
We’ve done it your way since at least 2008. Look at where we are today. Thank you NOT.
I told you. You didn’t listen. Same plan as ever that we can’t ever enact because people vote RINO.
Vote for conservatives or don’t vote at all.
Why don’t you ask your GOPe, they are running on nothing. Pathetic, ROFL.
LIES!
they are running on a promise of Amnesty. That’s something right?
These RINOs won’t vote for a Conservative, so it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. These RINOs are super geniuses.
You presume the process was legit and valid.
IMHO, the voting process is a joke. The ‘debates’ (sound bit factories), open primaries, voter fraud (w/ no prosecution), pandering, etc.
Just how quick are most States/voters disenfranchised? IE: 1st few months of the general, maybe 10 States, and the ‘winner’ is on the ballot? What about the other 40 States votes? Same with urban centers over-riding the will of the rest of the State (4 cites in FL decide the whole?!)
Sorry, no. We need to reform the process FIRST. States should be standing up to D.C.; the hell with Congress/etc.
The line between the lesser of two evils is getting very thin.
Shhh, you are giving away the decoder ring. LOL. Not one dime’s worth of difference.
Yeah, but you’re pretty much the poster boy for enthusiastic acceptance of the premise that we’re doomed and that it’s hopeless. If I were a liberal I would wish that all conservatives were like you.
I’d like to know when I get my 80% of Conservatism, cause all I see is all lefty, all the time.
Things would have been a lot different if Republicans had not sat out the election. I know that you see that, it is undeniable. If you can’t see how much better off we would be with Mitt Romney, it would be best if you just sit out all future elections.
you’re not adult enough for reality.
Warning: you don’t want to go there on anti Estab cred. You will lose. But I have a tremendous understanding of reality. You’re soaking in the purity of your own irrelevance.
I hope this thread gets passed around right wing circles. If I were on the fence about the GOP, their fans here have really helped OUR cause. I mean most of these things is a bashfest waiting to happen but not a single one of the no matter what crew will touch the fact that the GOP just GUARANTEED amnesty if we vote them into power.
The only conclusion that makes any logical sense is that knowing that, these defenders themselves WANT that amnesty and all the death and suffering it will bring just to claim victory.
Boy THAT is conservative and good for America. And it has the added bonus of being the exact Dem position too!
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