Religious Right and swing voters may stay home (this won't help at all)

Business Week Online ^ | Richard Dunham

[jmstein7]

One of the most unpredictable and confusing midterm election seasons in recent history is coming down to the wire. Within the past week, four respected national polls -- Gallup, Ipsos-Reid, Fox/Opinion Dynamics, and Pew Research Center -- all indicated that the American people were nearly evenly divided in their congressional voting preference.

[ApesForEvolution]

Ready, willing and able. Vote and vote often (vote every election, that is, for the communist swine trolling here...).

[Chad Bagwell]

I likes milk. :)

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Man, I hope the rest say the same thing. These pathetic "Smithites" in NH who don't care if Shaheen wins have taken leave of their senses!

I don't follow the state politics closely, so I didn't realize there were people who weren't going to vote for Sununu because Smith didn't win the primary. Not good.

[Got a right to Life? . . Huh?]

I know how you feel. I get disillusioned when "republican" (see R.I.N.O./ Republicans in name only) votes with the socialists, or when it seems that all of our elected folks are out in left field.

Let me explain my pragmatic view with following analogy. We are all riding in a big bus traveling a coastal highway that circles an island clockwise. About 40% of us are trying in some way to keep the bus on the road. The rest are simply along for the ride. Some of us are pulling hard right, some hard left, and some are trying to hold a straight line off into the sea. These folks are all democrats and republicans.

In the back of the bus is a smaller group who have found several other steering wheels. Leaving the front of the bus and pulling right on one of the many wheels in the back leaves fewer pulling right in the front. The problem being, the only way those in the back will ever turn right, as they intend, is if they all agree on a steering wheel, and they out number those pulling right or left in the front of the bus.

Here is how I pull right on the front wheel, (the one that is currently operable.) I am a elected to represent my precinct in our county, in which I will walk door to door talking to moderates about voting right. I am a vice-chair in our county party, which gets me a vote on the central committee. I was a delegate to state party platform convention, voting on dozens of proposed changes to our platform and authoring a couple of lines of our platform on education. ( a very conservative amendment) I register republican voters at fair booths, home shows booths, etc. I will be calling conservatives who haven't voted in the final days of our election. I talk to as many people as time allows about the necessity of voting republican. I call, write, and talk to my representatives and senators in person about what I think they are doing right or wrong.

I am pulling as hard as I can to the right without actually running for office myself. (Self-employed, young family)

I like the constitution party. I think I will look for a great candidate from that party and get him to run as a Republican.

[Got a right to Life? . . Huh?]

If it's not clear, the people in the back of the bus are voting for third party candidates.

[slimer]

If Democrats prevail, it means Christian Right voters stayed home.

In which case the Christain Right, like the League of Nations and the U.N. becomes, by choice, irrelevant.

I sincerely hope this does not turn out to be the case.

[philman_36]

Sit in your nice pew, pray your prayers, surround yourself with likeminded saints.......just don't complain about what happens in this country if you don't want to take part in the political system.
What a pompous and sanctimonious ass you seem. I'll complain as long and as loud as I want! BITE ME! If anyone doesn't have a right to bitch about anything it's those of you who DO vote. You know going in what the "candidates" are about and then you get all offended when they do the exact opposite of what they say they are going to do. Instead of then complaining you "roll over" and just "take it".
And, if Christians continue to disengage from the system, don't complain when those in power come to close your churches, confiscate your goods, burn your Bible or jail you for your beliefs. After all, it must be God's will.......
No, that will be Lucifer's will with the aid of corrupt men that will allow your scenario to unfold. Christians won't be able to stop that, and that is God's will and I won't be complaining against that!
You really are dumb.

[philman_36]

IMO Americans don't know what "true" liberty is. All we know is "legislated" liberty, just like in Mussolinni's Italy.
What El Duce allowed was called liberty, but hey, at least the trains ran on time.

[Chad Bagwell]

IMO Americans don't know what "true" liberty is.

USA SUCKS!!!

Our liberties are pretty good sense in many (most?) countries such blasphemy as above would get me an immediate execution, "disappearance", or exile.

All we know is "legislated" liberty, just like in Mussolinni's Italy.

Your against laws?

[Chad Bagwell]

IMO Americans don't know what "true" liberty is.

USA SUCKS!!!

Our liberties are pretty good sense in many (most?) countries such blasphemy as above would get me an immediate execution, "disappearance", or exile.

All we know is "legislated" liberty, just like in Mussolinni's Italy.

Your against laws?

[Chad Bagwell]

Not agian, LOL!

[philman_36]

Your against laws?
You're reading what I wrote? Can't be...
You must have me confused with someone else. I find nowhere in my replies where I said I was "against laws".
Are you trying to make me out, by implication, to be an anarchist? Seems like it.

[Chad Bagwell]

Are you trying to make me out, by implication, to be an anarchist?

Hmm............ nah, but I'm betting your a libertarian. :yawn: It's 3:45 AM and I'm tired so I'm gonna commit a few acts of treason and go to bed:

[Chad Bagwell]

Found another one.