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.
Sorry Norm.
Obama Sucks and every Senator that voted for the government to take over 1/6 of the nations economy goes down.
You can play with that all you want. NOT ONE REPUBLICAN voted for this bullcrap and HARRY rammed it through on CHRISTMAS EVE with 51 votes.
Sit there and SCREAM your RINO bull.
You support government control and socialism.
You have NO DEFENSE. PERIOD.
Vivid inagination Broette.
Of course we can, but you didn't.
I voted FOR a conservative. That vote does not go in Barrys total.
Nor did it counter a RAT vote, real or fraudulent. It's the difference after subtraction that counts in an election.
Thus I did not help barry.
Of course you did. You're no different than all the people who didn't vote.
You really do need a civics lesson
You really need a math lesson.
Oh...you forgot to add they funded it in 3 continuing resolutions after their ‘no’ vote.
Nope. You seem yo not understand how elections work.
The Republicans did not vote for obamacare because they knew it was not necessary. The Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress. The Senate Republicans did vote to stab Ted Cruz in the back when he came up with a plan to do away with it.
That tells me how stupid you are.
I voted on Monday the 27th. If I try to vote again I should be in jail.
Get a grip.
Right, like I’ve never been inside one.
It works both ways, we have Governor Paul LePage, with 38% of the vote. Same reason. The RATs were too stupid to vote against him.
It could happen again come Tuesday.
They did fund it. Now tell FReeper Nation why?
They voted AGAINST it because they don't believe in it. They have free market alternatives.
What should I say? You don’t know how they work. Inside or out. The crap you posted is simply not how elections happen. If you vote for someone, barring fraud, they get your vote. That helps the person you vote for. Not Barry. Unless you voted for Barry. And I didn’t.
Because you FEEL that someone else gets it is not my problem, nor the way votes get counted.
“And yes, if you vote RINO, you abandon conservatism to do it. The two diametrically opposed ideas cannot both be held true. If you vote for a RINO, you EMPOWER RINO ideals.”
I love the smell of RINOs buring in the morning - Lets see what Wednesday smells like
Here’s how they really work. The president is elected by winning 270 or more electoral votes. In each state the person with the most votes wins those votes. So for example if like Norm you don’t vote for Obamas opponent you help elect Obama. QED. See how it works?
Because they abandoned their power of the purse? To help Democrats? Because Mitt wrote much of it? Because they are liberals?
Pick one. All are true. They did fund it three times afterall.
You really do need a civics lesson.
The forum suffers badly from the mental disease of Rino creep. Most that use the term mis apply it to include any one with whom they disagree. They wouldn’t recognize a rino is they met one at church
That’s all you have? Thats it?
If this thread is an indication, it will smell more liberal than ever.
Truth not enough? Perhaps if I explained it through interpretative dance...
No, you are the one that doesn’t understand how the American system works. Since you are outside looking in, you can’t see how it really works
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