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.
would YOU be here being accountable for what you voted for?
HELL NO, you dupe and moron whose math skills are so piss-poor as to actually believe the unicorn math that a negative equals a positive. YIKES.
Yes.
You REALLY don’t understand how an election really works.
Your way -- which I've been doing for more than 35 years -- when is it going to start working? Because so far, all it's done has been to push the Republican party left.
You are literally voting "Heads they win, tails I lose." It's why the Republican party is so much farther left than it was 20 years ago, and why the Democrat party is so much even FARTHER left.
You're a fine one to be lecturing on understanding "how an election really works."
If you're at all informed politically, you have a duty to vote. I have a duty to vote in every way possible to prevent amoral government tyranny. If that means using my little milligram of difference, my vote, and tossing it onto the "neither of the above" pile that gets counted, then the PERCEIVED and REAL context is presented: most Americans voted "against" Clinton both times. That was good for limited government conservatism. Had he won with a majority of Americans, or if Bush or Dole had won with a majority -- how would that have helped conservatism? On the contrary, leftism would have been rewarded both times.
It's action and consequence. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, it's been said. If you intend to nix Obama and place your vote in an agent of embracing the same basic government ethic, like Romney or surely Cochran (what kind of morally bankrupt person could he be?) -- only bad can come of supporting that, and the truth is that your vote supports it in the most fundamental way possible.
Action versus intention.
I tell you now, when it comes to choosing the most "conservative" between two amoral government enablers, one Republican and the other Democrat, I will vote for a plurality because it is an ACTION to weaken the popular mandate of which ever bad guy wins.
LOL. The GOP has been moving Rightward not left.
When I first got interested in politics, the center of the GOP was a Rockefeller Republican. One of those couldn’t win a primary now anywhere. Now we have guys like Paul, Cruz, Cotton. The next Congress will be significantly more conservative. But at some point you have to win POWER. For 40 years the Rats controlled the House. Think about it 40 years. If you Kamikaze Koncervatives have your way they will own the White House, and the Congress. Hows THAT going to work out for you?
You defeat the squishes in the primaries. In the general election you suck it up and vote for the MOST CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE YOU CAN WHO CAN WIN.
THATS HOW ELECTIONS WORK.
Hold your noses people. A Conservative in the WH will change both
houses and the Republican party. They will have no choice.
I swore I would not vote for McLame. Until Palin. Like you, I am not one of the deluded who believe voting makes a difference. That was the point Progressives wanted to reach. As much as the lefties vilify Nixon he turned out to be a pretty big lefty himself, which may be why they hate him so much. We seem to be in this “grey zone” of history where undoing what has been done just isn’t possible because to do so would take incredible moral and intellectual leadership at all levels and there simply is not the public will to do so. As many of us that see reality for what it is there are hundreds if not thousands who don’t or won’t. We are in this precarious time between ballots and bullets. I take some comfort in not being so outnumbered when I realize just how ammunition sales have blossomed. Perhaps we aren’t as outnumbered as it might seem. In any case I have no more faith in ballots. All I can do is insist on morality and integrity up to the edge of my property. When enough of us have contiguous property and enough ammo we can tell the irrelevant, corrupt gummint to go to Hell.
Electing Ted Cruz is one pathway.
The only way I see us now being able to put our money where our mouth is IS actually to put our money where our mouth is. Cruz will be opposed. I don’t see him getting big money backers. He’ll rise or fall on those who say they support him providing him with financial resources $100 at a time.
As far as I know, I get to vote on only four national offices: house of reps, two senate seats, and one pres/vp ticket.
The first two are the limits of my influence on Congress. It’s up to others elsewhere and their voting.
If we vote in a conservative in our districts and senate races, what if the others don’t? What’s the plan then?
Stay on topic. I asked for the name of a republican Senator potentially worse than Harry Reid. You responded with “Bhoner (sic)”, apparently a reference to John Boehner, a member of the House of Representatives.
A semi-bright 4th grader wouldn’t have made that mistake. You did. I don’t think I need your advice.
I think I was misunderstood -- I'm advocating holding your nose and voting GOP no matter what.
I responded with
“Mitch. Bhoner. They FUNDED Reid.”
Try....TRY to be honest. Mitch, the first and most direct response to your question is a Senator correct? Yup. Then I said Bhoner.
Lying does not help your cause.
You made two replies. The first was an opinion, the second was a stupid error. I won’t let you off the hook until you admit your boneheaded error nor will I allow you to change the subject. You made a gross error and won’t admit it. I’m not lying.
I posted a cut an paste Directreply. Mitch. Bhoner is also just as bad. I included him. I am on no ‘hook’. But whatever helps you through the day...
I don't think it was ever meant to be easy - that we can "coast"...
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance,”
- John Philpot Curran, 1790
You vote for conservatives and do your best to bring others to your cause. Thats all any of us CAN do.
“:LOL. The GOP has been moving Rightward not left.”
We have before us, the stupidest and most historically inaccurate thing ever typed on Free Republic.
Thank you for saving us all any more time spent arguing with you. Because it’s clear you inhabit a far different reality than the rest of us.
I’ve dealt with enough children in my life, you and I are done.
Should have never started.
My what a fool you are Normy....
http://ideologicalcartography.com/2010/11/05/introducing-the-112th-congress/
Thanks for playing.
Go away troll, go back to dummy underground
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