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.
Hey Finney!
If THEY had won...none of this would be happening. ESPECIALLY not ObamaCare, Ebola and the economy. That's a great big "IF".
But they didn't win (thank you very much) SO IT IS HAPPENING!
So you can wear that with pride Obamaboy.
"A picture is worth ten thousand words.."
e enemy is corruption in both parties at every level. The leadership of the Republican party has demonstrated no willingness to even begin cleaning up government. They are complicit and only interested in maintaining their privilege.
That is my take. Prove me wrong.
You are probably right. However, what can we do, besides vote?
That's just total fantasy, there was never any such plan in the works. They proposed the total opposite.
You confuse intent with action when you vote.
You confuse fact with fiction when you type.
Its funny. Was it just last night I said “I’m not that interesting in politics these days...”
I thought about it after I hit “post”. For a guy who isn’t interested in politics, I spend a lot of time on FR. :)
Another Common Core Math student? *sigh*
I have to wonder the same thing about many of our GOP candidates.
BUMP TO THE TOP.
But combat boots is right: anyone informed in politics has a DUTY to vote. So VOTE -- but if the Republican is a functional Democrat, VOTE alternate party even if you know the alternate will lose. This is voting FOR a mandate-weakening plurality for whichever liberal wins, the Democrat or the Republican, in the final tally.
You don't get to vote "against."
That’ll fix ‘em! /S
Not much will change because anything passed by the senate is unlikely to be signed by 0bama. I’ll still be damn glad to see Dingy Harry go.
If you don’t vote, you will be casting a vote for what we have now....pick the one closest to your beliefs
I vote. I said this about 12 times on this thread. The two liars that keep saying that I don’t should be the people you need to ask why.
Vote for CONSERVATIVES. Write in if needed.
Thank you.
People on here, sniping at each other, and we’re supposed to be Conservatives. So, we want to decimate each other? When 0bama and the communists are doing such a job of it nationally?
I have little faith there’s much that can be done to stop what’s coming. Voting for a Republican that can hold it off a little longer, even two years, is what I ask. We’re in the s#itter and we all know it.
There’s no where left to run. We are making the last stand now. Quitcherbitchin.
I ask for a senator and you name the speaker of the house. I should trust your judgement why?
This from a person who presumably voted "against" Obama by voting FOR an agent of tyrannical government in every venue from health care to abortion to homosexual "rights" to environmentalism to gun-grabbing -- YOU CAN LOOK IT UP, Irish, you should check out what you're voting for when you agree to vote "against" --
... if rooting for collapse is sedition, what is voting FOR the government tyrant who imposes that collapse?
Because that's what you voted FOR when you voted "against" Obama.
See #593, if you can. Further evidence of what were dealing with.
Please provide us with an example math problem where you the voter, choosing either 1) not to vote or 2) voting 3rd party, does not give the opposing candidate an advantage.
Great - all the conservatives that DO get elected to a minority party position will thank you that day in and day out that get to watch the majority leader, Harry Reid act the fool.
And when you go to tell the conservative legislators that you voted write-in - on principle - they will slap you and the back and tell you thanks - for nothing...
“What freeper Kozak is saying ...”
I know what he said. You misunderstood the point of my post.
In case you didn’t notice, the GOP leadership are all on the same page.
Hows 30 years of fail workin’ fer ya? Good? Well just keep at it. You’re doin’ a hell of a job.
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