Posted on 10/28/2014 5:34:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
We have forgotten how we can change our country. We think we can put up a few conservatives and the Rhinos will just roll over and hand us the reins of the party. Of course, they are going to fight. Rather than look at what happened in MS (where I live)and other places, as a great defeat, we can see how far we have come. The key is to take control of the party. And to those who want to just leave the GOP we need to remember that the stakes are far too high to just let the Rats win and maintain power. We are too close to tyranny for the luxury of taking 8 to 10 years to build a “pure and the driven snow” party. I don't like Thad Cochran but I am going to hold my nose and vote for him nonetheless. And for you in KY and Kansas, how much good will it do if you stay home and the Rats win? For so many reasons, we need control of the Senate, if for no other reason that we can put some brakes on federal tyranny.
Vote November 4th! There's just too much at stake!
Maybe, but what about this?
After the election is over, and after the democrats keep the Senate, and after things get much worse--more totalitarianism and White House Executive Orders, complete and full amnesty of tens of millions of new democrat voters, more of not VOTING on ANY bills passed by the House, some of us will remember the FR posters who asked that all Republicans be defeated, to really show the GOPe/RINOs just how bad they are and not conservative enough ...again.
And Obama smugly smiles...
Sorry...guess I misunderstood!!! My error!!!
Every Republican but Mitch McConnell. For the good of the nation, he must lose.
I have so much respect for you, and you do so much on this forum.
The unfortunate truth here is that the rebuttal to this can be rendered to a single word: Cochran.
He’s our Lautenberg, and Boss Hogg down in Mississippi is Exhibit A why we cannot continue to reward this behavior.
The courts are being used by the Executive (at the Fed AND State level) to rule by fiat. I don’t see that changing through the ballot box any more.
If you are going to make ANY kind of appeal to conservative voters, the only one left is this:
“Before we essentially agree that political representation and political reform is no longer possible through the ballot box, we should give the counterbalancing party one more chance.
If they don’t do what they’ve been elected to do, the alternative is going to be bloody.”
That’s what its come down to. It’s on that basis, and that basis alone, that I’d pull the lever for a Republican.
The only purity test I have for Republicans is this:
Read, understand and respect the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It’s not a ‘living document’. It’s the culmination of the learnings of 10,000 years of people ruling over people. With respect to the cultural forces, there is nothing new under the sun there either. Have a backbone.
BLA-BLA-BLA
He already IS a lame duck, except for his Executive edicts, which neither party can touch.
You are entitiled to ur opinion...and, I am entitled to mine....have a nice life!!! End of story!!!
Well whose ox is being gored here?
I don’t remember any registered FReeper asking some one to “sell out” to the Republican Party, either...
Exaggerated words are typically thrown all around by ALL sides, don’t you think? But we only see the ones WE take offense to, and consider offensive things WE say as minor at best, and those who are offended by them as big babies...
But we both digress... My position has NEVER been that we sell out to the Republicans. My position is that the USA-hating/America destroying, baby-killing, Islamic caliphate loving, atheist-supporting/Christian/Jew hating of the democrats be opposed at every step. When the choices come down to only these two, I’ll vote AGAINST the democrats.
Time and again, I find all the caterwauling about how terrible the RINOs/GOPe are to be not nearly as terrible as what the average democrat has done to us.
Meanwhile, to increase or perhaps create their self esteem, many Freepers deny the existence of the GOPc, the conduit for real conservative energy. The conservative wing of the Republican party is the means for reaching conservative goals
Absolutely agree, and that is who I support. My Senator Jeff Sessions, for example! :-)
However, I still vote against/oppose democrats everywhere and anywhere.
Early in my military career, there were conservative democrats, or at least pro-American democrats, such as Scoop Jackson or John Stennis, and as a military man I felt they had my back as much as anyone. But they are gone and the entire party, represented by such anti-Americans as Pelosi, Kooksinich, Obama, Holder, Warren, Boxer, Hillary, Dean, Lurch, etc., etc., have all kicked them out.
To that extent, I am left supporting Republicans, because the alternative IS killing the country... The country I love and vowed (and still do) through a sacred oath to defend to the death.
The time to oppose RINOs IS the primary. Every state in the Union had primaries, but this year, once again, voter turnout was dismal at best. I can only conclude that many stalwart conservatives stayed home, and typed their hatred of the GOPe on computer keyboards, but forgot to get in the car and go vote.
It doesn’t take much to search the web and find out what a particular state or district’s primary turnout was. Even in such states as Kentucky, where the Horrible Turtle Man, Mitch McConnell, was opposed by a TEA partier, had a 26 % turnout. Now how can conservatives win a general election if they don’t vote in the primary, in order to GET a candidate they can vote for?
So I think a lot of it is hot air and blow-hard-ism. I’m tired of hearing how awful the Republicans are without nary a remark about how awful the democrats are... People complain here all the time about the House of Representatives and how limp they are, but these guys have passed hundreds of good bills that have all been shot down in the Senate. Yet people are going on and on ad nauseum about Boehner—but not Reid. It is tiresome. I think they need to focus on the options we DO have, and vote accordingly.
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