Normally I would disagree with you but the time to punish the GOP has passed....for now. We need to get out and vote so we still have some RINOS to beat up on after the election.
We are not in a perfect world so make wise decisions.
REAL Republicans ALWAYS vote but NEVER for The RATS!!!!!!!!
The best time to fix a 'broken' Republican is during the tenure, NOT on election day.
Honestly, a Republican sitting this one out is one t hat just can't be counted on. We should work on expanding the base and dropkicking these petulant, self absorbed, terminally alienated losers out of the party.
Remember the kid who wanted to take his ball and go home, ruining the game for everyone else? Screw him. He grew up to be a miserable, loathsome male. Republicans who think sleeping soundly at night is preferable to Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Reid need to be shown the door, and we should replace them by winning over more reasonable people.
Conservatives are basically optimistic and pragmatic people and will vote. The defeatists like the Buchanites, Savage fans and illegal immigration drones do not add any value to the conservative movement. Their pessimistic attitude would mean a Pelosi Congress and around 12 million illegals legalised before the 2008. Republicans and real conservative independents are optimists and thats why they would keep control of Congress after the 2006 elections.
I will be very brutal, any Conservative who sits out on purpose is a traitor. Yes, I said it and I meant it. You might call a liberal stupid, uninformed, or nuts; but a Conservative knows better. If you know better and intentionally take actions or lack of action to hurt your country by allowing liberals to take over, then you are a traitor. Remember evil thrives when good men do nothing.
The point made should apply to anyone who has taken the decision not to vote.
By not voting, you merely tell the candidates that you don't care what they do. By turning out in large numbers future candidates will know you are watching, listening, and reacting to their words and deeds. To not vote is to send them the message that they can get away with even more corruption.
Personally speaking, anyone who takes the decision to not vote is a fool, a damn fool.
Just came off a chat with a friend in California. We agreed that the republicans just might pull off a surprise this time around. We both agreed that if the dems. win back the House or Senate we're real scared the country is going to spin out of control. Any Republican that doesn't get out and vote or votes dem. needs to take a long hard look at their own emotional priorities.
I may not be happy with the spending excuses sent to me in the letter from Dewine, but I can't put a dem. in his place. And sitting it out might as well be a vote for a dem. which will hurt the country.
Now is the time to think about the brave men and women who are fighting and dying for our liberty; and the RATS who would stab them in the back and sell out our country to the terrorists. The Republicans have not been perfect of course but is there any comparison between them and the traitors who would chair the committees on intelligence, appropriations, judiciary, defense, immigration policy, foreign policy, etc. if the Republicans should lose?
You forgot to address those who'll be voting Ind./third party, of which there are far more than those who'll be voting Donkey. In fact, conservatives voting for Donkeys are the rarest of asses. ....not even worth a mention.
The time to punish the Republican incumbent is in the primary!
Both the Democrats and Republicans are driving us toward a cliff. They just disagree about the speed. The Democrats want to go a lot faster. The Republicans a little more slowly. With the Republicans we will at least have more time to set things right before it's too late. Now is the time to stick with the party and then do some starting Nov. 8.
If a conservative decides to teach the Republican party a lesson on election day, he and his loved ones are going to pay the price for that lesson. The tuition for that lesson will be make Harvard tuition look like peanuts.
I voted last week. Had to vote for a couple of RINOs, which makes me sick, but there is no way I could vote for the Demoncrat candidates...no way.
Normally, the option to not vote, or vote for the Dem'crat, would be an adequate strategy to express dissatisfaction with a Republican officeholder with whom you may disagree. But there is an assumption that both Dem'crats and all Republicans are honestly representing the interests of US citizens. This has become less and less so in recent years.
If the Dem'crat IS elected to power, complaints and objections to his (or her) misuse of the office will go unheard, or no direct response is made to the one who complains. What does happen is that the dissident is persecuted in little ways, like his income taxes are audited, or a permit is delayed, or even a few rumors are started in the neighborhood, calling into question his behavior and civic responsibilities.
There is a popular belief that this has happened with Republican officeholders, and in some cases, this may be true. But the whole idea of less government intrusion into the affairs of the individual is that this sort of thing does NOT happen, so long as the citizen keeps the law. The Dem'crat, on the other hand, wants a profusion of laws, many of which, on close examination, are in direct contradiction to each other, so no matter how one may wish to keep within the law, some part of the statutory code is always being broken. But Dem'crats don't enforce the law, as long as they are not being troubled by dissidents, then they apply it selectively, as a means of suppressing the rabble-rousers.
The difference? Republican officeholders are at least somewhat responsive to the voices of their constituents, while Dem'crats are working with an agenda that is crafted elsewhere, and not revealed to the local voters. The Dem'crat almost always maintains a very good "service" center, where favors and monetary reimbursements are dispensed to assure the continued support of a good-sized core of voters, and a "listening" activity seems to be ready to accept requests, but complaining about the service, unh-uh. That buys the complainer endless trouble.
Eventually, the troublesome person moves elsewhere, or shuts up altogether.
Anybody recognize a pattern here?
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"Republicans who don't vote"
Should be silent if the Dems are given power.
Because they'll get no end of abuse (hopefully just verbal) when
Alcee Hastings assumes oversight of our anti-terrorism efforts.
Letter: Could alternative to Republicans be worse?
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2006/11/04/opinion/letters/letter002.txt
"Speaker-to-be (she hopes) Nancy Pelosi has indicated she would like to
put Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida in charge of the House Intelligence Committee.
As a federal judge, he was impeached in the House by a 413-3 vote,
and removed from the bench by the Senate for bribery, corruption, and perjury.
Rep. Hastings would lead the oversight of America’s anti-terrorism policies."