Posted on 11/02/2014 5:33:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Look, I’m not going to lie to you – your vote matters. But let’s be honest, there are Republicans on the ballot who aren’t very conservative. Most of them don’t agree with me on everything and surely don’t agree with you on everything. In fact, many of them are downright awful.
So if you find yourself in a state where the Senate race is close, and you don’t like some of the things the Republican candidate stands for – just stay home.
A message must be sent: We conservatives could not beat all the people we don’t like in the primary, so we’re not going to vote.
That’ll show the establishment. That’ll show the country. That’ll show the future.
So if you’re a conservative in Colorado, don’t vote for Cory Gardner. If you’re in Iowa, show that Joni Ernst what’s what! Live in North Carolina? Who does that Thom Tillis think he is, anyway? From Kentucky? Let Mitch McConnell know who’s boss! Georgia? David Perdue? I don’t think so. Kansas? Teach that Pat Roberts a lesson! Live in New Hampshire? Scott Brown – yuck, am I right?
Look, if conservatives don’t draw a line in 2014, when will it be drawn?
Just because tea party and conservative candidates couldn’t win a majority in primary challenges doesn’t mean they aren’t the majority. It was dirty tricks and the establishment that screwed you … everyone knows that. So show the establishment you won’t take not getting your way anymore.
Honestly, what’s the point of voting for a candidate who agrees with you a majority of the time? Don’t vote. Let someone who you agree with on nothing win, and then next time – in six years – that person comes up for reelection, maybe the Republican Party will come to its senses and let you get your way.
I mean, what would be better for the country – Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader? Obviously Harry Reid. Mitch McConnell is a squish on a few things, wouldn’t run blocker for President Obama and wouldn’t be a rubberstamp for any Supreme Court nominee, or any court, for that matter. Where’s the lesson for the establishment for that?
Sure, I know, the country will have a court system packed with activist judges, and the president will use his magic pen and phone to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and who knows what else, but principle will be maintained. That’s a moral victory, right? Those count for something in politics, right? They have to count for something…
Of course, they count for nothing. Yet that nothing is what many millions of Americans, including many of you (judging by comments on other columns in which I’ve dealt with this topic), are prepared to vote for by stubbornly refusing to vote for a candidate who isn’t “your candidate.”
Sorry, your candidate lost, and your remaining choice sucks. I get it, I’ve been there. But so what! Get over yourself. Everyone who voted in the primary and your choice lost. It happens. It’s part of life. So you’re just going to quit?
If you want to right the ship of state, how did you think that would work? Your one chosen candidate would somehow undo half a century of constitutional disregard in 20 minutes? Of course not. It’s all going to be incremental. Nothing this big turns on a dime. But before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse.
Harry Reid remaining majority leader in the Senate means things continue to get worse. Barack Obama packing the courts with like-minded judges means things will continue to get worse.
There will come a point of no return, where we will tip over that ledge from which there is no coming back. If you stay home, or you cast a “message” vote for some third party nothing-burger, that’s what you’re voting for. That’s what you’ll get, and that’s the country you’ll be leaving for your kids to inherit.
A vote for anyone other than the Republican, no matter who that Republican is, is a vote for Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
You want to purge the party? Do it from a position of strength. I’m all for a battle royale for the soul of the Republican Party, but not until AFTER the Democrats are vanquished.
Tuesday, go vote. Vote for the Republicans. Send a message that you are not a moody, unreliable person who will take your ball and go home if you don’t get your way, but that you accept your party’s primary decision. It’s a decision you don’t like. It’s a decision you’ll fight in the next primary if necessary. But for the good of the country, you’ll live in “now” and work for the future.
Anything else is a vote for progressives, and anyone who does that is no conservative.
A vote is counted for who or what its cast. /Simple civics.
Get a Clue
Excellent analysis and is especially true with the MSM 'true believers' manipulating at full bias towards the liberal and government side. In this environment it is difficult to remind the voter that responsibility goes with privilege for a responsible and sustainable governance. The most worrisome long term trend I see is that the left DOMINATES the education establishment teaching our children that "left is right and right is wrong!"
Great post Axelrod,doing your best I see.
They are liberals that support the liberal agenda.
The Republican Senate leadership used their cloture votes to support Reid's agenda on Obamacare and removing the debt limit.
If you vote for a liberal republican, you are a liberal.
I won't be voting for the liberal Cornyn on Tuesday.
/johnny
Get your own because you sorely need one. Try learning how elections work before telling people how to vote. You’ll have some credibility.
Pout? Not a chance.
My life has only become more enjoyable since I stopped concerning myself with the trials and troubles of Republican politicians. Sure, one day armed men in uniform will probably show at our doors to take what’s left of our freedom, but so far the Republican party has done precious little to prevent such an occurrence.
The time to get the most conservative Republican is in the primary. If have been successful in some cases, if we fail, then if it looks like the Democrat might win, then we have to pinch our noses and vote for the Republican.
If the Republican is going to be an easy winner, or a 3rd party guy has a real shot at winning - and the Democrat has ZERO shot, then vote for him or her.
We can’t continue with Harry Reid. I hope Mitch the Turtle won’t be moved up to leadership because he is Harry Reid lite.
Regardless, we have to have a way to get those bills off of Dirty Harry Reid’s desk. Force Obama to sign or veto.
I hear all this talk from alleged conservatives, as opposed to lefty trolls, about “Don’t vote, send a message”, “No more RINOs!”, “Don’t support the establishment”. To all these I say you are either not smart enough to understand the world around you, or you have such a massive ego that you can’t live with the thought of not getting your way. It reminds me of the kid who always had the only baseball in the neighborhood, “Play like I tell you or I take my ball and leave and there won’t even be a game.”
The world is as it is. Get your collective heads out of whatever orifice they are stuck in. This strategy will not work.
All the RINOS have been silent lately. Now we see why. Final stretch push.
Same crap every two years. The yellow streak materializes like magic.
If and when I vote again it will be pretty much for Libertarian candidates and Libertarian recommendations.
You missed the sarcasm of the author
The fight between the conservatives and middle of the road Republicans must be fought in the primaries not the general election. How in the hell do you think we got the President we have.
I early voted a straight Republican ticket even though I had to hold my nose about my congressional rep. Perhaps we can get him in two years during the primaries but not the general election.
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Harry Reid approves of your post.
Wow, Derek touches a nerve.
It isn’t his foot they are kissing.
We got Obama because the GOP ran a rINO that plenty of us told you was unelectable. We were correct.
Please learn that FR is a conservative site, not the GOP lapdog.
I vote. But not for any candidates that are weak on either amnesty or homo-marriage.
Romney helped facilitate homo-marriage in his own state as governor, and he did not get my vote in 2012. John Cornyn has been pushing amnesty and the dream-act behind the scenes, and he did not get my vote this week, when I went to early-vote.
There are down ticket races, rather than stay home just either write in or don’t vote in a particular race. If you don’t want to vote for anyone you can just go get a ballot and not vote, that will in the numbers register disatisfication, staying home leaves it to guesswork as to you being po’d. I wrote in Chris McDaniel in our US Senate race and cast a write in for a judge position, they will not count, I cast votes in the other races that will count. If you don’t show up they don’t really know you told them to go to hell.
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