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Why You Shouldn’t Vote
Townhall.com ^ | November 2, 2014 | Derek Hunter

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; gop; gotv; harryreid; republicans; rinos; senate; voting
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To: xzins

Ted Cruz.


621 posted on 11/02/2014 4:38:16 PM PST by marron
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To: combat_boots

622 posted on 11/02/2014 4:56:11 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Finny; Norm Lenhart
It's like battered wife syndrome...

These people get lied to, kicked in the teeth, beat and betrayed over and over and they keep coming back for more and more...

Battered voter syndrome?

A pattern of signs and symptoms, such as fear and a perceived inability to escape, appearing in voters who are physically and mentally abused over and over.

623 posted on 11/02/2014 5:16:56 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Ditter

That’s the POINT. I voted Perot “to teach the GOP a lesson”, Which I regretted. Vote for the GOP guy, even though it stinks this time.


624 posted on 11/02/2014 5:24:59 PM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: 50sDad

There we have it........ testimony offering truth

no pompous balderdashious drivel but an honest assessment of the third party destruction


625 posted on 11/02/2014 5:29:19 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: 50sDad
I voted Perot “to teach the GOP a lesson”, Which I regretted.

You, too, huh?

It's true that GHWB wasn't anything to write home about. But it turned out the alternative was a massive mistake -- corrupt beyond imagination.

626 posted on 11/02/2014 5:40:14 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: 50sDad
I voted Perot “to teach the GOP a lesson”, Which I regretted.

Good point. A lot of my friends did that. The damage is still with us. And getting ready to run for president in 2016.

627 posted on 11/02/2014 5:53:17 PM PST by marron
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To: 50sDad
I am glad you figured it out, tell Finny. Most perot voters won't admit that what they did was wrong. I commend you.
628 posted on 11/02/2014 6:02:16 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Finny

OK, so IF Jimmy Carter won in 1980 we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

GO BACK TO SLEEP!


629 posted on 11/02/2014 6:29:00 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Damn Norm. 9 hours later and you even brought in supplies.

I’ve walked three liberal dogs and shot a squirrel in that time. Get yourself some food. Maybe cater the event.


630 posted on 11/02/2014 6:32:41 PM PST by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Ditter; 50sDad; marron; BlackElk; fieldmarshaldj; OneWingedShark; All
50sDad: I voted Perot “to teach the GOP a lesson”, Which I regretted.

Ditter: I am glad you figured it out, tell Finny. Most perot voters won't admit that what they did was wrong. I commend you.

As it happens was as ticked off at Perot voters are you guys were -- I voted straight Republican ticket. As I have done every election since 1976. That is, until 2012.

I used to think just like most of the posters on this thread -- support the Republican whatever the cost. I subscribed to it for DECADES and it has only made things worse. HELLO??????????? Anybody home?

I woke up in 2012. I voted third party and regard your vote for Romney in 2012 as something you did that was wrong that you refuse to admit was wrong. But it was wrong and you're damned lucky the bastard lost.

So get over it. If the guy had won and done what Romney has always done, you guys who voted "against" Obama would be the first to deny culpability.

This isn't about "teaching a lesson." Excuse me, but consciously voting for pond scum like Cochran is destined for disaster if the bastard wins. YIKES!!! Intentions are dreams. Actions have consequences. When you vote for liberals ... YOU GET LIBERALISM.

When are you going to figure that out? It only took me 30 years!

631 posted on 11/02/2014 6:41:25 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Sorry — forgot to ping you to 631!


632 posted on 11/02/2014 7:17:11 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Norm Lenhart
I’m the guy telling people to vote for conservatives. Your lack of understanding the situation is your problem.

"I'm the guy" - really? Amazing. The lack of understanding is that you seem to think you are defined by who you vote for; that voting for only conservatives somehow makes you more conservative than the guy who votes for a Romney (Jim Robinson anyone?).

No my friend, the way you live your life defines you. Do you really think you're more conservative than me (or JimRob) when it comes to the 2nd Amendment, abortion, or a host of other issues? I doubt it.

When I vote, I'm not picking a mate, a baby-sitter, my priest, my best friend, or my business partner. I'm picking a politician, I'm casting a vote, and in the end I'm taking a gamble. I'm gambling that the guy I pick can make a difference in moving the governance of this country in the way I would like to see it go.

Note the operative word: can

Obviously, your write-in candidates can't. They won't be elected, that can't form coalitions with elected conservative legislators. They are a protest vote - nothing more.

633 posted on 11/02/2014 7:27:36 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: jonno

I don’t even know where to start. Where do you even come up with the drooling idiocy you posted above? Where? What exactly do you think standing on principle is? What purpose do you ‘feel’ it serves?

On second thought, don’t bother answering. I’m not real concerned with your amateur psycho analysis or the results you can imagine up.

PS, Jim admitted he made an error. Had a post about it a while back IIRC (and I do) Take it up with him.


634 posted on 11/02/2014 7:56:44 PM PST by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Good luck to you NL - and may God bless you.


635 posted on 11/02/2014 8:18:58 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

What IF.......... the vote is totally manipulated in most districts?... Federal, and even State and Local in some places....

Arguing about voting tactics then... would be a grand delusion..
What appears to be isn’t, what happens is what is SUPPOSED to happen..
Decided by “SOMEONE”... or a cabal of somebody’s...

like Logans Run.. -OR- the same process in degrees of totality..

Like Pavlov’s dogs... ignoring the whistle zoned in on the “reward”..
Like the 2012 republican convention where a KNOWN obvious collaborator with democrats, a shill, was chosen(Myth Romney).. AND.... several well know conservatives were rejected...
You Know............. BY CONSERVATIVES...
/ or was he?/


636 posted on 11/02/2014 8:29:04 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: roamer_1

If you read my post again, I allude to defeating the RINO in the NEXT PRIMARY if he/she can not be persuaded to vote more conservative. The incumbent democrat will be difficult to defeat in the next GENERAL election, as an incumbent.

General versus Primary are completely different situations. You should try to understand the difference.


637 posted on 11/02/2014 8:37:28 PM PST by entropy12 (Marxist, race baiter, community organizer boy king is 10 times worse than any RINO)
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To: betty boop
Go VOTE; vote GOP so to vanquish the Democrats. We have to staunch the bleeding before the "patient" — our American civil order — can be restored to health again. Otherwise, the patient will just bleed out and die. What would that mean for our kids and grandkids?

Indeed. First things first.

Thank you for all your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

638 posted on 11/02/2014 8:40:33 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Norm Lenhart

I recall people demanding all vote for Bush no matter what. On and on... All were urged to save all that immigration stuff until AFTER he was elected. All that could wait ya know.

People were routinely called “single issue voters”. Those concerned with the security of our homeland and wide scale violence and wholesale lawlessness were labeled malcontents.

And here we go again....


639 posted on 11/02/2014 9:21:11 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Finny
When you vote for liberals ... YOU GET LIBERALISM.

The dirty secret the GOPe can't let out of the bag, because once you realize this it castrates their yells of vote for our guy; the other guy's worse.

640 posted on 11/02/2014 9:47:30 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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