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.
No, actually I didn’t. But make up whatever lib thing that helps you believe that. No sweat off my back.
Because neither has announced a run? If they do, I will gladly vote for either. Perhaps you missed my thousands of posts fighting the PDS wars.
Don’t validate your viewpoint by overlooking the history of the Great Communicator. He was also the proponent of the 11th Commandment, e.g. not to speak ill of another Republican
He was able to attract lots of so-called Reagan Democrats by broadening the message toward an inclusive conservatism.
Barry Goldwater went the other path, espousing purity, and crashed because the American people don’t vote for a radical far left or far right agenda on a Statewide or National election.
Calling ME a troll?
Contribute to FR and then you can do that.
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/
You didn’t read the article did you. ROFLMAO..
The Republican establishment wants to pass amnesty and destroy the country.
And I’m supposed to be a sucker and give them my vote to do it?
I still have principles - and my vote has to be earned. The party has not earned my trust.
I see no reason to vote for it and its candidates.
You don’t vote. Go to the mailbox, that is probably the extent of your yoga class.
Wasn’t aware one had to buy speech time here. Besides, just because my name may or may not have been on the check does not have any bearing on any contribution.
But if you were not digging like a madman to find SOMETHING to discredit me...since you can’t factually address anything I have posted, you might have known that.
If they were consistent, then no.
But Reagan was 30 years ago, and all of the minor negatives are far enough away that they can say that he was the perfect conservative, even though today parts of his record would have made him RINO #1.
If FR was around then, they would be bragging about staying home.
Get back to me when you read up on his view of Rinos.
That’s the WARRIOR spirit.
Go sit home Tuesday. Then you can moan like a B#tch for the next 2 years.
“We have learned on Free Republic that first you boast about principle, then you boast about not voting and then you must defend your self righteous self esteem by continuously boasting about all three. Mean while the boat sinks”
And most of them claim that somehow G-d is “on their side” approving of their faux “moral indignation.” I just imagine in those cases “Allah” is smiling.
Oh well, such is the situation down at the “doublewide.”
There’s nothing going to stop me from voting this Tuesday.
No way, I would want to give any communists (Reid / Obama) any more power. I can’t believe there are some posting on this thread in admitting they have not voted for many years.
The only way, I do not vote for a republican is if they support radical immoral issues (abortion / redefining marriage). If a democrat was a conservative vs. the republican being liberal, I would support them.
GSWarrior: I havent voted since 2004. (In other words, you’re a “Warrior” in name only)
Better than helping libs by voting in more RINOs.
It was a laugh riot. Musings of an Internet Warrior.
Meanwhile in the real world....
The term RINOs is obsolete. If the Republican Party is thoroughly owned and operated by RINOs then they aren’t RINOs. Conservative Republicans are the ones who ought to be called RINOs at this point.
I would probably vote for Rand Paul. Justin Amash is pretty good, too. Paul Ryan would have my vote, as well.
Yeah, you did. You could have neutralized a vote for Clinton and Obama. Instead you sat home with a thumb up your ass and a satisfied smile on your face.
Cool story bro.
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