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.
Man up to a liar? Please. Spare me the indignation. Take that time to study civics. I vote conservative. thats all you need to know.
No, but you helped Obola.
I do it every election. Do you FEEL that is wrong?
No, but you disagree with William F. Buckley and "The Buckley Rule".
You really don’t see your contradiction do you.
LOL . Normie can’t handle the truth. He helped elect Obama. Twice.
Did you help elect Clinton too?
You really don’t know the Buckley Rule do you.
PS, When Buckley pays my bills, he will be entitled to have a say in how I view the world. But still not my vote.
I know what it is. Perhaps you should read my post history sometime.
Normie thinks Buckley was a Rino squish.
Nope. Cool story though.
Damn conservatives won’t vote for liberal Republican liars and frauds...
What a bunch of malcontents...
I routinely vote for candidates of whom I do not approve. I'm voting to prevent an outcome I oppose, such as Harry Reid being Majority Leader next January.
Not voting helps Reid and Obama. Voting for the Losertarian or the Constipationalist also helps Reid and Obama, even though either of the third-party crackpots may be closer to my beliefs than the RINO for whom I cast my vote. That's just how elections work.
For instance, I'm voting for Charlie Baker even though I like Scott Lively better, because I don't want to see the Wicked Witch of Fells Acres elected governor.
Children stamp their feet and "vote on principle". That way, they feel good about themselves, even though they are actually voting against their own interest.
So is this thread ;) Bye all.
Truth. Deal with it.
So enjoy more Reid and Obama. You deserve it.
Their radicals woody...
Only malcontents refuse to see party over principle is the only way.
Don't be a foot stamping child.... Compromise over conservatism 2016!!!
Buh buy Normie.
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