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.
You will never have a candidate and you are trying to subvert voting on FR for any candidate.
At this time in America we must pick the MOST CONSERVATIVE candidate.
You proffer none, but tell folks whom to reject.
It is not hard to understand your position.
Keep circling, the drain will find you soon.
RR
Is this the part where we put party over principle and compromise conservatism?
You vote for the one who is closest to your position.
I see, so if they're close to my position, and offering some weak evasive lip service, I should give them my vote?
You're joking right?
My husband and I both registered in December 1979 to vote. The 1980 primary was the first election we voted and since that time we have never missed an election. BTW we both registered as Republicans and have never voted for the rat party and are not planning ever to
Oh but I do. I vote for the most conservative candidate who can get elected. So I voted for Reagan ( twice), Bush ( twice) Dole, Bush (twice), McCain, and Romney. So I helped beat Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry. I didn’t help elect Clinton or Obama. How about you?
ANY FREAKING RINO! Vote for the Rino Republicans!
Just vote R!!!
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Is their new campaign slogan?
Because the offshore-communists won. You should at least vote for the American.
votes only count for the people they are cast for.
Other than as a footnote, they are THROWN OUT!
No don’t vote, let the liberal rat win. That works better.
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What numbers are those?
(There is a lot more than that wrong with your post.)
I always vote for an American Conservative. Thats what we all should do. Is there an issue you have with me voting for an American conservative? I do it every election. Do you FEEL that is wrong?
I voted for conservatives. Got a problem with me voting for conservatives? You might be on the wrong website.
Hey, just like the last 20 years....Vote the better evil.....It’s worked out so well....
Looking sharp America...
I’m voting compromise....Again....Be proud...
That’s why we need another Bush! He’s better than Obama!
Ya, I’m going to do that!~
Please enlighten me. Like who?
Be specific. I was.
Do you think you are going to find a conservative RAT you can vote for?
Let's say 48% of the House is RAT, same with the Senate. 47% is Republican (mostly conservative) and the balance are third party conservatives.
Guess who controls both Houses and all of the committees. If they're not TEApublicans....you're screwed.
Why? So you can divert? Lets say that Palin got back to back votes in two of them.
Do you have a problem with that. I could ship you a hammer and a salt lick with instructions.
No you will sit home, then whine about what a horror Obama and the Rats have brought us. Or you can get what you can Tuesday and work to get something better in the next primaries. It’s about winning. The rats get that.
BUSH 2016!!
NO MATTER WHAT!!! ;)
What did you write in Palin for president twice? Genius.
No I want to know who these conservatives are you voted for. I laid it out. Man up and tell me.
The message is clear...
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