Posted on 11/25/2007 5:29:03 PM PST by cradle of freedom
Voting for Duncan Hunter in the primaries and the general with pride.
I respect your feelings, but it is too early to have a third party presidential candidacy. The third party would have to grow up from the grass roots. There is little chance of a third party candidate coming out of nowhere and winning the presidency.
I’m voting for whoever except Ron Paul. If it’s him, no vote or write in a name. (the idiot wont get that far so I’m not too worried)
Yep, you were wrong and it looks like you’re going to be wrong again.
Protest votes, or refusal to vote, accomplishes exactly nothing in terms of reforming political parties. That has to be done in the trenches, before election day.
People who think they are going to “teach the party a lesson” somehow by not voting, or voting for a nonviable candidate (anyone who is not the nominee of the two major political parties), are mighty mistaken.
If anyone should have learned a lesson, it was those who threw the nation to the dogs when they stayed home previously or voted for Perot.
Given the behavior of the GOP these last few years I have to vote for my first choice. I don’t believe the so called front runners are electable. Duncan Hunter will mop the floor with any democrat he faces simply because he is a clear choice.
Exactly.
Probably as good a chance as the Repubs w/ Rudy or Mitt at the helm...
Hello. It won’t be the people voting for the Republican nominee who elect Hillary, it’ll be people like you who stay home or vote loser party.
Sorry, but when I hear someone say they could “care less” about what happens to the country-—and the result on Election Day determines very much what happens to the country-—it makes my blood boil.
Nice guy Duncan....
I agree with most of his positions....
5 guys show up on the RealClearPolitics National Republican poll...
Duncan’s not one of them...
Sorry
Of course I will vote GOP. Hell, I voted for that buffoon Bob Dole and as much as I dislike some of them, none of our potential candidates are worse than him.
Hank
If you want to elect Hillary,,,I can't think of a better way to accomplish that,,,,than to SPLIT and DIVIDE the Party WIDE OPEN,,,while demoralizing the base--(by thumbing your nose at the tradtional base with it long held, core bedrock conservative principles and values---by nomination a LIBERAL who is out-of-sync with those very values and principles)!
ENJOY HILLARY!
There's a LOT of people on FR that could really use that message.
My vote will be an anti-Hillary vote. I will crawl through a snow storm to defeat her!
Oh, you mean like what happened to Bubba, where he got impeached and thrown out of office . . . oh, wait.
What are you smoking?
And why are you concerned about the fate of the Republican Party in the long-term but not the fate of the nation in the short-term?
The hell with the Republican Party. If it can’t be effective, it is what it is and something else will take its place. So what? No one who is committed to their values, and to seeing their values shape the future of our nation, is going to change if the Republican Party bites the dust.
They’ll just find some other way to operate politically.
So what is the point of basing your decision on who to hire as Commander in Chief on its effect on the Republican Party rather than on the nation?
If the Republican Party goes liberal by nominating a liberal, or by abandoning the Reagan platform, it will be a very short time before either it, or the Democrat Party, will become the third party. Count on it.
God bless you.
I commend you for pointing that out as one who’s been there.
Sadly, you’re right. For some reason the Big Picture never registers with the one-issue voters.
So far this thread is quite encouraging, but there’s still a contingent of pooh-poohers who refuse to accept that their refusal to vote for the Republican nominee helps elect the Rats.
I will vote in this election no matter what. No matter who the nominee is; be it Rudy, Romney, or Fred. Even Ron Paul. ANY Republican currently running is preferable to She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
I won’t necessarily be voting FOR any Republican as voting AGAINST her.
Maybe people who want to write in candidates should write in their own name? That way they can be sure the candidate agrees with them in every particular?
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