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.
Amen, brother. Amen.
If others want to sell out their sacred principles to fear and 'pragmatism', that's their business. I will continue to use my one and only vote to support candidates who wish to return this country to its founding ideals.
Voting for people who don't believe as you do, only ensures that you'll have more people who don't believe as you do, to vote for in the future.
In short, you get what you vote for.
I can’t hear you. Too much celebrating going on.
Go back to pounding the keyboard with spittle flying.
Loser.
“In short, you get what you vote for. “
In the real world, you also get who you don’t VOTE AGAINST.
Math is easy.
No Kaslin can add.
Finny doesn’t understand the concept of SUBTRACTION.
You can HURT the RAT by CANCELING one of his votes.
Math is easy Finny.
Finny likes to use the “all” tag. Thinks everything he flatulates is interesting to EVERYONE on FR...
So? You are deaf. That's not my fault or the fault of any actual conservative.
I look forward to your explaining here on FR why we should all listen to Mitch McTurtle and Weepy John (hic) Boehner and their subordinates (can there be a lower form of life than being a subordinate of those two spineless "moderate" weasels?) explain that they and their majorities can do nothing until the Wall Street GOP has control of the White House for some spineless wonder of a corporate footstool.
Then, if that is achieved in 2016, while keeping legislative majorities, the "leaders" will explain that they are being stymied in their heroic efforts by the continued Demonratic stranglehold over the dog catcher's job in eastern Guam but, if we can turn that tragic situation around, maybe we can start on something other than US Chamber of Crony Commerce priorities and rich folks tax cuts by the mid-2020s but don't count on it.
The category of loser is attached to those who don't give a crap about anything but faithfully serving their financial superiors.
Kozak wanna dog biscuit???
What? Too much cheering going on here.
Oh, still having a hissy fit?
Man , what a sad, bitter life you must have. Completely joyless.
I got to go. Work to be done.
Rat assets to kick some more.
Buh bye.
Trying to understand your message here but your posts do not read well.
And BTW, I didn't advocate (Don't vote the other guy), If you see post (645)
it clearly states that is the Republican message this election.
And Btw, what I contribute, when, and how much I can afford,
is none of your damn business..
Rino this, democrat that, repubican the other.. is wasted angst if the vote is being manipulated..
And it, OF COURSE, “IS”...
It’s obvious it is.. it’s in your face that it is..
Democrats don’t even try to hide it..
Does that say something about them, OR the republicans..
What I’m seeing is large scale apathy...
It will work out in the end.. americans are armed, the alleged great sleeping conservative base.. is delusional..
Pity, I read history.. didnt happen with the russians, chinese, japanese, germans, french, Egyptian christians allowed the muzzies to literally take over, same in Lebanon.. Even The british have gone flull fledged socialist.. for a long time now.. How do you defeat the commies? <<— BECOME ONE seems to be the answer.....
The internet seems to burn off the large part of the anger..
America has bitched itself to sleep..
The bad guys will only release reins of power from their cold dead hands..
Which would take some blood letting by the good guys..
And the feds make sure any willing to DO THAT.. are out of country.. in the chain command of some Drone.. all the domestics have whined themselves asleep..
Because of the apathy there will NO CIVIL WAR..
Boy, that’s a grim post!
Going from point A to point B requires knowing where A is..
ELSE; you be lost..
dear Kozak,
(do you like tootise pops, like ko(j)ak?)
It has come to my attention that, that is the caae with Finny.
My daddy al’lays done tol’ me, son, pick yo’ fights! You cain’t al’lays fight dah whol’ woild at dah same time!
‘Yeah, bur dad, d’ey’s so many?!?!?’
(have a nice day!)
—election P.S., Monroe Mayor ‘Jamie’ Mayo, demoncrat, has to watch his back ... the voting machines in his town were caught changing republican votes to democrat!
I’ve heard that line of reasoning since the ‘40s (literally), and it goes back well before that, I’m sure. It ain’t working. So far it has produced only two Conservatives: Coolidge (before my time) and Reagan (and I’m not sure what Reagan was, but he wasn’t a Socialist Liberal, and he articulated Conservative values very well).
Nothing seems to produce much of value to Conservatives.
I’m open to suggestions.
It says something about both. Nothing flattering.
Ehhhh. Vote as you please and never mind the raging GOP control freaks who act like they have some kind of ownership of YOUR vote.
It isn’t worth getting worked up over.
I’ve heard that line of reasoning since the ‘40s (literally), and it goes back well before that, I’m sure. It ain’t working.
Amen, Brother FReeper. Furthermore, IF "we" had agreed to "work within the GOP" and made the mistake of electing Romney in 2012 instead of telling him to go to hell, today we would very probably be looking at Democrat gains in Congress and a Republican presidential administration going out of its way to cooperate with the Democrats on every front from government-run health care to environmentalism to homosexual marriage.
Happily, enough Americans in 2012 realized that indeed there WAS another "real option," to decline to participate in electing tyranny, and that smarter gamble paid off yesterday.
You may be OK with the destruction has caused for last 2 years, and WILL CAUSE MORE DESTRUCTION IN NEXT 2 YEARS with executive orders, I am NOT OK with that.
May be you have not much income, and pay very few taxes. but I do. May be you do not care about the illegals streaming in, but I do. May be you do not care about loss of Iraq after shedding blood and treasure, but I do. What are you going to do when Obama grants amnesty by executive order? Demand impeachment?
“Teaching them a lesson” and abstaining has proven to be a fools game, over and over. But some are incapable of learning from history.
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