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Elections have consequences - we were warned
June 26, 2015 | Self

Posted on 06/26/2015 9:01:50 AM PDT by HonorInPa

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To: free_life

People will stay home if the GOP doesn’t nominate someone is at least somewhat conservative. Romney was NOT. Trump is NOT.


241 posted on 06/26/2015 12:18:58 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: CatherineofAragon

Not to be a grammar nazi but you misspelled “Dreamy Pecs”. Just wanted to point that out...;)


242 posted on 06/26/2015 12:19:07 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Jedidah
So the question is are the my-way-or-the-highway purists who sat home and pouted in 2008 and 2012 going to further our downfall by doing the same thing next year?

Or are "conservatives" who perpetuate the problems the movement faces going to get their way and nominate another unelectable mushy moderate, giving us the last kick over the edge into the abyss?

And then come crying to FR about how "we lost the country"?

We tried it your way. It didn't work.

243 posted on 06/26/2015 12:19:26 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
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To: KGeorge

Ted is the best candidate of the bunch


244 posted on 06/26/2015 12:19:59 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Colonel_Flagg

No their way worked exactly as they intended it to work. it got more liberals into power. And it used FR and other right wing websites to help that happen.


245 posted on 06/26/2015 12:22:15 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: AlanGreenSpam

As long as you keep compromising with the left, you move left and you move left. You will never “slowly work back to conservative” by moving left over and over and over.


246 posted on 06/26/2015 12:22:20 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Jedidah

“My way or the highway purists” are the RINO’s who vociferously fight against conservatives


247 posted on 06/26/2015 12:23:50 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Norm Lenhart

NORM: “That’s resulted in a net fail over 30 years.”

C’mon, you’re avoiding the key question here.

Of course, voting over 30 years for imperfect candidates hasn’t helped things at all.

But if all conservatives did as you did (sit out elections because you have the choice between a RINO and an evil Marxist), the past 30 years would have been 100% worse than it is even now. Get it?

The real question you need to ask yourself is do you want someone who is 100% evil (Obama) or someone who doesn’t have the exact values you want, but has a lot of them where it counts (e.g. free market capitalism and strong foreign policy). You cannot argue that Romney didn’t have a strong kick-ass economic policy.

The debate is clearly over whether the world would be in such disarray if Romney was president and not Obama. Obama takes the cake.

See my post #118 and watch the vid.

There’s still time to change your mind and not be so obstinate about voting to vote AGAINST the worst candidate.


248 posted on 06/26/2015 12:25:22 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Your saying Obama was/is more conservative than Romney?

Plllleeeeze !


249 posted on 06/26/2015 12:25:37 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (90% of MSM is lies, except the National Enquirer, of course :))
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To: savagesusie
He HAD to be killed.

Heart attack, wasn't it?

Walking around a had a heart attack.

Or was it.. evil ninjas? Evil heart attacking ninjas.

250 posted on 06/26/2015 12:25:55 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: GeronL

Romney was too far right for most voters, they voted the Marxist in a second time. The country has moved even further left. I don’t like the political reality but it is the reality.


251 posted on 06/26/2015 12:26:13 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Hardens Hollow; a fool in paradise; KC_Lion

Unfortunately, as you can see on this thread, there are many who will never stand up for principles - instead they argue we should compromise at every step. They think if only we moved left enough, conservative will win somehow.

Compromise+Move Left+Compromise+Move Left+____________= Conservatism!!

*shrugs*


252 posted on 06/26/2015 12:27:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Crystal Palace East

No, his record says that. I just passed the info along.


253 posted on 06/26/2015 12:28:06 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: AlanGreenSpam

You committed category error. There are no key questions.


254 posted on 06/26/2015 12:28:55 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: GeronL

Agreed about Bonehead & McConnell, but you have to admit it could be worse if we had Michael Moore and/or Black Panthers in their place.

As for Roberts (appointed by W), I truly think he was somehow threatened by the Regime. Or they have some dirt on an affair he may have had and threatened to destroy his family life. His reversal was just too out of character. Prob not Bush’s fault.


255 posted on 06/26/2015 12:29:02 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

Romney was a turd who deserves to be flushed


256 posted on 06/26/2015 12:29:40 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: free_life

“The country has moved even further left. I don’t like the political reality but it is the reality.”

Indeed. Look how many voted for a leftist. Mitt.


257 posted on 06/26/2015 12:30:23 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: GeronL

But FR isn’t flooded with liberals...


258 posted on 06/26/2015 12:31:37 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

—”You committed category error. There are no key questions.”

Norm, now you’re being unreasonable because you have no counter-argument. That IS the topic of this thread (consequences of elections).

I have no more to say to you.


259 posted on 06/26/2015 12:32:02 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

Romney would appoint leftist judges, we would still get ObamaCare and we would still have gay marriage forced down our throats.

Romney would be about as bad as Obama

............

I want to vote FOR someone, not against someone. Give us someone to vote FOR.


260 posted on 06/26/2015 12:32:22 PM PDT by GeronL
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