Posted on 11/02/2014 5:33:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Look, Im not going to lie to you your vote matters. But lets be honest, there are Republicans on the ballot who arent very conservative. Most of them dont agree with me on everything and surely dont 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 dont 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 dont like in the primary, so were not going to vote.
Thatll show the establishment. Thatll show the country. Thatll show the future.
So if youre a conservative in Colorado, dont vote for Cory Gardner. If youre in Iowa, show that Joni Ernst whats what! Live in North Carolina? Who does that Thom Tillis think he is, anyway? From Kentucky? Let Mitch McConnell know whos boss! Georgia? David Perdue? I dont think so. Kansas? Teach that Pat Roberts a lesson! Live in New Hampshire? Scott Brown yuck, am I right?
Look, if conservatives dont draw a line in 2014, when will it be drawn?
Just because tea party and conservative candidates couldnt win a majority in primary challenges doesnt mean they arent the majority. It was dirty tricks and the establishment that screwed you everyone knows that. So show the establishment you wont take not getting your way anymore.
Honestly, whats the point of voting for a candidate who agrees with you a majority of the time? Dont 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, wouldnt run blocker for President Obama and wouldnt be a rubberstamp for any Supreme Court nominee, or any court, for that matter. Wheres 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. Thats 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 Ive dealt with this topic), are prepared to vote for by stubbornly refusing to vote for a candidate who isnt your candidate.
Sorry, your candidate lost, and your remaining choice sucks. I get it, Ive been there. But so what! Get over yourself. Everyone who voted in the primary and your choice lost. It happens. Its part of life. So youre 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. Its 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, thats what youre voting for. Thats what youll get, and thats the country youll 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. Im 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 dont get your way, but that you accept your partys primary decision. Its a decision you dont like. Its a decision youll fight in the next primary if necessary. But for the good of the country, youll live in now and work for the future.
Anything else is a vote for progressives, and anyone who does that is no conservative.
I am not rooting for the collapse of the USA....it is my opinion that at this point collapse is inevitable. So the only thing that remains is how quickly do we get there so we can rebuild from the ashes.
That isn’t what happened.
There were these things called primaries. Guess who decided not to take them seriously? Guess who thought jumping between candidates ever few weeks was a great idea? Guess who split their votes all over the damn place?
Our biggest problem is that we still think that the GOPe are the “stupid party”. They are far more apt at winning than we are, that is for sure.
Fortunately I don’t have that problem since my complaints come with solutions. Its just that cheshire frauds do not like things that do not give immediate nirvana.
Annette Teijeiro is within 1% here in Nevada CD1 (Las Vegas)!! It will all come down to how many Repubs come to the polls on Tuesday.
If you want someone who will shake things up in Nevada and Washington, help Annette Teijeiro in Las Vegas. As many know, I wrote Harry Reids only biography and know how corrupt he is (more than you can believe). If Dr. Annette gets in, my Harry Reid research finally gets a platform. This may be the best bang for the buck campaign to help in the nation.
I am working on the Annette Teijeiro Congressional campaign in Nevada (Las Vegas) against left wing Dina Titus. Dear Lord, we should be crushed in a heavily Democrat district, but we are less than half a point behind as we finish early voting.
It will all depend on every last Repub and conservative independent showing up at the end to push over the top. This is crunch time, time to raise the dead and go vote.
This would be a jaw dropping win, so if you know anyone in Las Vegas please give them a call, Facebook, email or tweet.
If Dr. Annette gets in we have a fearless advocate against Harry Reid, and Annette is smart as a tack. We received zero PAC money too, so we are beholden to no one. Think Michelle Bachmann on steroids.
Please call, tweet, Facebook, do whatever. People need to know how winnable this is.
http://www.annetteforcongress.com
Plus, while some of his opinions were not palatable to the Conservative base, at least he knew that something like Obama Care, while legal for a State, was not Constitutional for a Nation. He also gets dinged for opining that he thought homosexuals should be allowed in teh Boy Scouts, but folks ignore that he added that it was for the Boy Scouts to decide - not for the Federal government to insist on. On the other hand, we have an Obama who will use the full force of the Federal government, illegally, to force these issues upon the People. For such a bright set of folks on FR, many have developed tunnel vision and refuse to discern some very important differences in who we end up installing in office and it gave us Obama for a second term (the next two years will probably do at least as much damage as the first 6) and are opening the door for a Hillary if we don't get a palatable candidate. It's enough to make one wonder why they bother voting or carping about things at all.
BTW - thanks for not making past disagreements get in the way of further discussion on other topics - many take things far too personally when one disagrees with them and it does not help the overall goal of FR to push for a solution to the mess we are in.
Two Words Politics.....Ideology
Which should be dominate, which is more important to people?
LOL. I am laughing at you because of your EPIC FAIL.
You are posting on a conservative website, telling people to vote for progressive Republicans. More LOL at you.
Yes it was what happened. The GOP ran Mitt. We told everyone he would lose. Everyone went bug nuts trying to find a ‘moderate’ out of the alsorans that could stop him as the GOP intended all along. And like clockwork, scared right wingers got behind their RINO.
Rinse/Repeat.
And it was spun as ‘purity’.
Not one of the alsorans was a purist. No one voting for them was a purist. But the GOP set the groundwork for all of it. Period.
Cheshires do what cheshires do.
You are another one who didn’t bother to read the entire article. Shame on you
There is another face behind Harry, and one more after that, and it keeps going. There will always be democrats to face, the next election will always be key.
Every primary, will always be the wrong time, and there will always be GOPe cheerleaders to tell us to overlook key betrayals, to call anyone who doesn’t toe the party line a purist.
The incremental benefit of one more rino in the senate is not worth much. McTurtle has said more harsh things about the tea party than he has about Harry Reid, the GOPe legislative agenda is immigration reform. It is not worth the long term price of being sold out by a traitor rino.
Your song and dance works much better for presidential races where is it all or nothing.
Well since you post these flamewar bating articles pretty regularly for some strange reason and duck any questions about your crap, perhaps they will have another opportunity soon.
The problem with a lot if Freepers is that they don’t see the full mechanism as to how politics works. With a Republican POTUS, their is a vastly greater element of criticism for issues of incompetence than someone from the Democratic Party, often because people who are big in the news networks donate to the Democratic Party and Democratic Candidates. Romney would not get away with a great deal of what Obama gets away with. Having criticism really get to someone, especially the POTUS, is important. That’s why I voted for him. I knew that it would be easier to give Romney flack for doing something wrong than it would be for Obama, and te flack would more readily hit the bigger channels, too.
Norm, your a stand up "person". Post the cheshires on this thread. You have explained what you admire. Let's see how much you admire your own self worth.
Go ahead...
I believe Hamilton had the wisdom to understand that enemy was better off in their own camp than in ones own.
Many of us would do well to wake up to that eternal truth and stop playing games with ‘holding feet to the fire’.
Because history shows we never do even when we win.
He lost.
Won’t be voting for him in the future.
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