To: exodus
Yeah, right.
# 111 by Jim Robinson
Well, good morning. I didn't think you would get my flag until tomorrow.
We're on the same side; we both want conservatives to be in charge. Where we disagree is on what a conservative "is."
I lost what little respect I had for the Republicans when they allowed Clinton to stay in office. It's going to take a lot more than a Democratic "boogyman" to get my vote back.
I get a liberal if I vote for either major party.
If I vote for a Democrat to protest the direction taken by the Republican party, Republicans will point to my liberal vote as the direction they should go to gain my support. If I vote for a Republican as the lesser of two evils, they'll point to my vote as an expression of confidence in their socialist policies. If I stay home, and don't vote at all, they'll use statistics to decide why I didn't vote this time, and they'll bend those statistics to mean whatever is convenient for their purposes.
I want a conservative, so I'll vote 3rd party. When I vote for a conservative, even a 3rd party conservative, THERE IS NO QUESTION what it takes to win my vote. I want a conservative, and I won't accept anything less.
Republicans will point to my vote as the direction they need to go in order to gain my support. Democrats themselves will move to the right, as Clinton did in 1992, in an attempt to show me that they believe, just as I do, in freedom.
The Republicans can "buy" my vote easily. Return to the promises that won them control of both houses of Congress.
Restore the Contract with America.