Trump/Cruz - the only 2 candidates worth voting for. Sorry to say - if anyone other than these 2 gets the nomination - I stay home.
I understand the sentiment of staying home on election day if either Trump or Cruz are not the candidate.
I do however strongly disagree with it.
If conservatives stay home because the GOPE forces Jebush or some other RINO on us, they will never learn.
I strongly believe it is better to find a third party candidate to vote for.
That way the Republican party can actually *see* where their voting base disappeared to.
If we just stay home they can chalk the loss up to something silly, such as the candidate not being “polished” enough, or not charismatic enough or any number of things that have no bearing on the parties lack of conservatism.
Political parties are like puppies.
If the pup takes a poo on the living room floor, you push his nose in it to let him know what the problem is.
Then you whack him with a newspaper to let him know that pooing on the floor will not be tolerated.
The Republican party needs to be trained in the same manner.
When the establishment shoves a candidate on us who is not in our best interest, we need to communicate by phone and mail what the problem is.
We then need to vote for *someone* so they can see there are consequences.
That means voting third party down ticket as well.
As it is, the GOPE knows we will eventually gravitate back to them if they throw us a few crumbs.
If we vote for a third party, they can see where their votes went and understand that they must change to woo us back.
If we as conservatives had done this for the last twenty five years, we would either have a Republican party responsive to us or we would have elevated another party and relegated the GOP to the ash bin of history.
The wife and I have decided that if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump (in that order) don’t get the nomination we will vote third party.
That includes down ticket as well.
“We need to find elected officials, whether Trump or someone else, who can solve our problems when in office, and not candidates who spoon-feed bullet points to anxious journalists.”........
As Trump had stated over and over again, never give up your advantage. Giving the media details of his plans would only give them fodder for more attacks against him. He is a master at making deals, deal he wins. I support that tactic and Trump, keeping his plans close to his belt, definitely gives him the advantage. From the poll numbers it would appear there are a lot of other Americans who feel likewise.
I won’t stay home but I will vote on all issues and offices except President. It might be amazing to see the number of ballots cast far exceed the votes gotten by a RINO or the democrap candidate- that should speak clearly enough that we are sick of elite RINO.