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.
Your boy either advocates election fraud or sampled your bag of tricks. Be proud of the man you expended all this thread supporting.
You vote for people that ya have to hound day and night and beg them to do their jobs??
Gezuzzz...
WINNING!!!!!!!
Absolutely not!
LOL. You have entered full blown manic Derp mode.
Maybe what you need is Lithium to go with the Haldol?
I’m glad to see Romney is out there helping elect people.
Not sitting on his thumbs like Normy, dreaming of America’s collapse and ruin....
Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Lamar!!! Alexander, Robert Corker, Thad Cockroach, Roger Wicker, Mark “Nancyboy” Kirk, Lisa Murkowski, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Robert Portman are a dozen incumbents to start with and that is by no means an exhaustive list.
Cool story Bro ;)
WINNING!!!!!!!
LOL THE FULL BLOWN manic Sheen. Awesome.
You seem to have missed the context...again.
Truth. Deal with it.
Or in your case Derp on.
Nope. Context Bro. Read some ;)
Sorry Bro but that Sheen “ Winning” is like so 2013..
Even Charlie is on his meds now.
Truth. Deal with it ;)
Reality. What a concept.
You might like it.
HELL YES .. because they think they have an easy chair and they can go back to life as usual .. I WANT THEM TO KNOW IT’S OVER AND THEY BETTER GET TO WORK.
Just because you’re too lazy .. don’t fault me.
THEY THINK THEY KILLED THE TEA PARTY .. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
This article is bull shyte.
It presumes that the insults and injuries from the GOPe should be ignored - because the GOPe isn’t the dem party.
The drum beat is idiotic, as are those who dance to its tune.
Is there ANY depth of depravity that the GOPe can descend to that would affect some FReepers’ adoration of their bowel movements?
None. they prove it daily.
You vote for people that ya have to hound day and night and beg them to do their jobs?
HELL YES
Ooook....Good luck with that...
In politics, VOTES are more important than advertising, more important than half wit GOP-E "consultants," more important than "walkin' around money," more important than payoffs. VOTES are our strength and, more so, when it is made obvious that those VOTES will NEVER be cast for Wilkerson Pecksniff XXXII or Myth Romney or John McCain or any other sorry SOB like any of them.
If the GOP nominee wants to be elected, he or she can well understand that they owe their souls on the conservative stands as to the babies, marriage (one man, one woman), guns, borders, citizenship, taxes (lower on folks of modest means), defanging the courts on social issues, restoring federalism and subsidiarity, re-arming the military and expanding its influence in foreign affairs, crush the influence of crony "capitalists." That's for starters.
No principles? No VOTES!
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