Posted on 11/02/2014 5:33:59 AM PST by Kaslin
If you don’t vote for the more conservative candidate you are sending a message. You are saying you want more liberals.
Yup! And the Republicans need to win by A LOT just to overcome the massive rat fraud!
I have a bad feeling we’re all going to be sitting around in a few days asking what the hell just happened.
I’m voting.
I agree 100%.
That takes maturity, doesn't it? :o)
I haven’t voted Sunday since Ronald Reagan!
This will be a fun thread - another loving & lively family discussion...
“There is no substitute for victory.” at 1976 Republican National Convention.
Ronald Reagan
I think it is normal to expect republicans in the north to be RINOs. But there's no excuse for Texan John Cornyn , who is chomping at the bit to pass amnesty.
Yeah, so what goes good with excrement? After all, there’s another sammich to choke down.
No need. The data from 2008 and 2012 is already out there festering. All you have to do is open your eyes and ears and nose. Your “take” is being proved wrong each and every day that Obama and his congressional and regulatory agency and judicial fellow travelers “transform” America.
Olympia Smowe gave us Obamacare by casting the vote to give the Senate Finance Committee the 60% they needed to move it out of committee. No reasonable and sane human could have imagined it would not succeed on the Senate floor when the Dems at the time had the floor. So you have someone who you say is 50% worse than Snowe? On every vote that mattered, all I can remember is that she wasn’t there to keep the wolves at bay.
Snowe always was a progressive, period. End of story.
You left out Mississippi, where the GOP candidate called supporters of his conservative opponent racists and Klansmen and where the Democrat candidate is a conservative.
Get up off your old dead ass and make sure the right guys win in the primaries so we don't have to keep having these discussions year after year.Take on a little personal responsibility for who wins in the primaries which is where it all starts.It should not be necessary to explain to supposedly smart Freepers why the commie dems need to be stopped.
Don’t think that you are voting for a rino.
vote to cancel a vote for a Dem.
Every election cycle we see the same thing. The reference to threats, fear, and invocation of faith to get the rubes to show up and vote for the gop. Sadly, we haven’t seen much begging this year. That’s my favorite part of the routine.
Remember: your vote matters. After all, the party of Nero is vastly better than the wicked and evil party of Caligula. Or something like that.
Comservatives are truly the battered wives of American politics.
Idiotic suggestion. More unlimited powers for Obama or choose a lesser evil?
Voting is a patriotic obligation. I vote in every election and will continue to do so, no matter how much damage Obama, the far left, and complicit RINOs do to our country.
Voting for individual positions is a tricky choice. I vote for the most conservative candidate who (1) is acceptable, and (2) has a chance of winning. When the democrat nominee is polling 15% ahead of the republican, I vote republican if our candidate is a conservative - to show the GOP that I support conservatives. When the democrat nominee is polling 15% ahead of the republican, I vote LIBERTARIAN if our candidate is a big government liberal - to show the GOP that I oppose unconstitutional positions. When the republican is polling within 4% of the democrat, I vote republican unless the GOP chose someone anti-gun - in which case I vote libertarian.
This year, there are republican candidates for governor and for US Senate who fall far short of my first choice from the primaries. However, there are no republican governor candidates in the general election who are so terrible that I would skip voting, and the same is true for US Senate this year. We’ll fight again in the 2016 primaries, and we’ll have a few more victories. We’ll fight again in the 2016 primaries, and we’ll pull some RINOs who like staying in office a little more to the conservative, pro-Constitution side from 2014-2016 as a result. That’s a victory too, if they vote to uphold the Constitution, limit taxes, and protect the Second Amendment, whether or not they are sincere.
So, if a RINO wins but by a smaller margin than a conservative, does that send any kind of a message that gets heard? e.g. Here in Texas, if Cornyn wins but does so by a smaller margin then others on the same ballot will it get noticed?
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