Posted on 10/22/2014 12:05:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Romney lost because of Romney.
You have to do better than “I’m not Obama” to close the sale.
Correct
If you didn’t vote, yes, it is partially your fault along with about 3 million other Americans who sat on their hands and allowed Obama to be elected and re-elected.
Good point. Romney stood for nothing.
The good feeling of defeating a Democrat overcomes the bad feeling of voting for a Republican.
It is not a “strategy” that is at fault.
It is the system.
What else are you going to do?
Our system is set up to ONLY offer 2 (basically) candidates, period. One must make a choice between just 2. If you do not, you leave it more to the enemy side.
Really, what else are you going to do? Write in someone? If you do you will be the only 1.
There is no other approach as long as this is our system - choose from just 2.
Here’s a little secret...the same thing happens on the Dem side. Their far left is in a constant state of pissed off at their wishy washy elected officials and want “real” liberals. The main difference is that they understand that half a loaf is better than no loaf. There are a few who will sit out because none are liberal enough, or fail a liberal litmus test, but far more will hold their nose and vote, just to keep the evil Republicans out.
BTW, most of the Dems consider McConnell and Boehner to be evil incarnate and as conservative as can be.
One more thing...the liberals (and Rinos) just laugh and laugh when “pure” conservatives stay home on election day. They know that you have conviction and integrity, but they also know that your ideas will NEVER rule the day. Everyday that goes by another bunch of Americans are dependent on the government and new Democrats for life.
Keep your conservative integrity and purity intact. When your descendants are all freezing and hungry in government housing and dying for lack of medical care, they can all share stories of how great-grandpa was a paragon of conservative principles and refused to vote for someone who only agreed with his positions 80% of the time.
I don’t vote for evil people, and McCain & Romney are both evil .
Our party has been hijacked by rich, amnesty-loving RINOS, who are spending a fortune to defeat tea party type conservatives.
Then don’t bitch at the rest of us who try to do something.
the system the founders created was never designed for 2 parties. In fact they hated the idea of parties.
If the two standard choices are libs, I absolutely will write in. Done it before, will do it again. If the country burns, it isn’t on my neck. I vote conservative. Join me and we win.
If the GOP candidate is a Cruz/Palin type, they get my vote. If they hit 80% actual without abandoning the core platform they get my vote. If not, it’s their problem. Not mine.
Doing the wrong thing isn’t praiseworthy.
Doing nothing is worse than doing the wrong thing for the right reason.
” Then don’t bitch at the rest of us who try to do something.”
What, pray tell, are you trying to do?
Get conservative elected. Failing that, taking the reins of power away from the Rats for at least a holding action.
One of 2 things will happen shortly.
1) Obama EO’s amnesty, the Republicans do nothing and the country is soon destroyed.
2) The Republicans take the Senate, and try to ream amnesty down our throats. Boehner will join Flake, McCain and McConnell,et al, and try to sell us out. Only an internal war in the Republican Party will stop it.
If Romney had won, he would have rammed amnesty down our throats years ago.
Electing someone you know you can’t trust is about the stupidest act a voter can make. I cannot believe we have fallen so far that people actually argue that.
RINOs mirror Dem policies. They abandoned marriage, they abandoned the border, they abandoned people to the IRS, abandoned Bhenghazi and FF with their fraudulent ‘investigations and openly PROMISED that they were GOING to give you Amnesty.
If you support that, I hope they give you the full measure of your decision. Because you deserve it all.
” Get conservative elected.”
I have done that all my life. I worked for Reagan at his Century City, CA office for some time. No salary.
You are the second freeper I know of that actually worked for RR that flatly refuses to abandon everything he worked for.
None have surfaced pimping the RINOS. Imagine that.
Just imagine that : )
Well no thats not good. It proves that Reagan was in error. Because as this thread shows, OBVIOUSLY FR’s cheshires know better than he did and they know better about how our voting system is supposed to work than the guys that actually created it.
So this is clearly a problem. We now have to look at our former hero as a complete moron because all his speeches, actions and policies clearly were in error.
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