Great piece......thanks!!! And fear not the Freeper naysayers and their assisting trolls are carrying any weight today!!! The rank and file, Freepers, enmasse...see an sense what is afoot with this coming election!!! I see it in most of the postings today!!! “Our” folks...the good guys & gals of America are gonna turn out in huge numbers come Tuesday...and I hope the changes we see are all positive!!!
How we miss Jim Talent.
For the most part, I accept this idea, but there are limits beyond which I will not go.
Mississippi.
No. Always go to the voting booth and vote for the offices your conscience leads you to vote for while you’re standing there.
Not saying vote Republican at all costs.
It’s not a matter with agreeing with candidates for me 80%, 90%, 100% of time time. I would sooner vote for someone I agreed with less than 50% of the time if I felt they really valued human life had integrity, fortunately for the Republicans, the Democrats no where close to that. I won’t vote for someone I don’t trust, period. After what happened in Alabama, I have a really hard time trusting anyone with an R after their name. I am not the unmotivated base, I am the party’s political enemy, since the Republican Party has chosen to make me one through their corruption. The annual guilt trip isn’t going to work. Never again will I hold my nose to vote.
I am now preparing for the worst and you should be too, because things will get much worse before they will ever get better. The only vote I feel I have left is to invest in lead. The Republican Party can go to hell for all I care. It’s over.
We need a Conservative R Senate, and to not have it swing back anytime soon. To that end, 2014 we need every R possible to get. Conservative Strategerism to lose extreme RINOs, or Ditch-Mitch, only will make it that much harder to keep the Senate in 2016, 2018.
OTOH, there should be a MAJOR battle to take the Senate Majority leadership. Take it away from Mitch, who deserves it not. But, this should go on after Tuesday.
Ditto to Derek Hunter. (The first part of this article is sarcasm - even though many on FR agree with it.)
“... But before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse ...”
PLEASE VOTE!
Not voting is a vote for obola and dirty Harry.
Not voting is giving the RATS more years to destroy USA.
Leaving the RATS in control of Congress and a weakened, dwindling Rep presence in Congress, is in effect giving up the war against the destroyer RATS.
Get in people who are more on our side, then pressure them to do the right thing!
The Rep will work as a pack, if they are the majority, to stop/slow down the RATS’ destructive moves.
Ask yourself HONESTLY
- you give the RATS the house and senate now, AND,
- YOU ARE WILLING TO give the White House to Hillbilly in 2016 (if she gets nominated and your ideal candidate is NOT nominated), then what?
Then you will happily continue to withhold your votes until all Rep not to your liking are gone and there is truly, officially 1 Dem party left, then you are free to start your conservative party ???
No, the GOPe won't hold soetoro accountable for Fast & Furios, IRS, Benghazi, NSA, VA, surrender of Iraq and Afghanistan to the enemy, Bergdahl, arming al queda, voter fraud...
And they won't stop him from granting amnesty to 50 million illegals but when the S does HTF I'll be able to say I tried.
I hear all this talk from alleged conservatives, as opposed to lefty trolls, about “Don’t vote, send a message”, “No more RINOs!”, “Don’t support the establishment”. To all these I say you are either not smart enough to understand the world around you, or you have such a massive ego that you can’t live with the thought of not getting your way. It reminds me of the kid who always had the only baseball in the neighborhood, “Play like I tell you or I take my ball and leave and there won’t even be a game.”
The world is as it is. Get your collective heads out of whatever orifice they are stuck in. This strategy will not work.
The fight between the conservatives and middle of the road Republicans must be fought in the primaries not the general election. How in the hell do you think we got the President we have.
I early voted a straight Republican ticket even though I had to hold my nose about my congressional rep. Perhaps we can get him in two years during the primaries but not the general election.
ps
Harry Reid approves of your post.
Wow, Derek touches a nerve.
I vote. But not for any candidates that are weak on either amnesty or homo-marriage.
Romney helped facilitate homo-marriage in his own state as governor, and he did not get my vote in 2012. John Cornyn has been pushing amnesty and the dream-act behind the scenes, and he did not get my vote this week, when I went to early-vote.
There are down ticket races, rather than stay home just either write in or don’t vote in a particular race. If you don’t want to vote for anyone you can just go get a ballot and not vote, that will in the numbers register disatisfication, staying home leaves it to guesswork as to you being po’d. I wrote in Chris McDaniel in our US Senate race and cast a write in for a judge position, they will not count, I cast votes in the other races that will count. If you don’t show up they don’t really know you told them to go to hell.
I have never skipped an election entirely in 45 years and I don't intend to start now. I might skip a race on the ballot entirely in rare cases to express my strong disapproval of a candidate running on the Republican ticket (for example, John Cornyn), but not showing up at the polls is not an option in these perilous times.
The Democrat Party has become so destructive and corrupt in our nation that anyone who still chooses to run under that tainted banner is Obama in my eyes.
When voting for the Republican left, it is necessary to take a “My leftist is better than your leftist” attitude towards Democrats, and most of the time you will be right, but undoubtedly there will be times when your leftist piece of crap will make your blood boil.
Whom does the Republican left have who will work as hard to destroy his Democrat opponents as he does to destroy conservatives? That’s the question the sleazebags on the Republican left need to answer before throwing their garbage our way.
When is the last time you heard the Republican left get a lecture about voting for a conservative should one beat them in the primaries? That’s the lecture I’m looking forward to hearing. Will the hacks and pundits do their jobs to stir up the Republican left to vote for Cruz?
After reading through this entire thread, I’m dismayed that so many of the self-righteous who helped give us two terms of Obama are still making the same tired “no vote” argument.
Earn my vote, Derek Hunter. I dare you.
My vote goes to the most conservative candidate. All the time. If there isn’t one, the slot is left blank.
If you want that vote, nominate conservatives. It’s really quite simple.
So, Derek Hunter, will the beatings of conservatives continue until morale improves?
And forget the “any vote that doesn’t surrender to Karl Rove is a vote for Harry Reid” BS. My vote is always FOR who I vote FOR, as is everyone else’s.
Next.
Two Words Politics.....Ideology
Which should be dominate, which is more important to people?
He should have added one further point: vote, and then dedicate every ounce of your energy from that moment on to holding the recipient of your reluctant vote to upholding the principles and ideas of liberty upon which America's 200-year history was formed!
You have technology available which can put the Founders' plain and simple ideas into the hands of every person you know. There is now no excuse for allowing the counterfeit ideas so-called "progressives" teach in the schools to dominate public debate on issues.
We lazy citizens have allowed our liberty to be commandeered by power-greedy political ideologues. An informed electorate might, over the next two years, be willing to hear and consider the ideas of a Cruz over those of a Clinton. We can do our part, but not if we take the "exit ramp" on voting day.