Posted on 02/12/2008 7:25:36 PM PST by Kaslin
If a person of voting age, that is allowed to vote, stays home...They have no right to complain, at all.
Vote! Even if it's for third party for POTUS and conservative down the rest of the line, VOTE!
If you do not take part in your country's political process you are nothing but a freeloader and have no right to complain about anything given to you.
Agree to your agreement. Let's sniff out the true conservatives in our local primaries, even if they're not the front-runners or the party annointed, and support them.
Is that what the folks on FreeRepublic want?
The need to 1) turn back to Conservatism and then ) Grow a set of Bls, then maybe then they can retake the house and senate and governorships when they have credibility in a few years..
Yep, it’s over. I hope the RINO know-better elites finally “get it.” But I doubt they will.
Get used to saying President Obama.
“Looking at the ‘06 implosion, I’m not real confident.”
Nor am I.
Thanks, but it sure is a sad state of affairs.
These little liars just keep telling the sheep they must continue to compromise their principles and continue to vote for more liberal, compassionate candidates.
Most of the Republican establishment have been taken over by ruling elite insiders, arrogant neocons, and the corrupt.
Who else would have just stood by and allowed their own country to be dumbed down, undermined and compromised by a lawless illegal invasion of millions upon millions?
As I said before, if we work hard to get more conservatives in Congress, NO ONE will be able to pass an amnesty bill, no matter how much they want it. That being said, I’d rather have a Republican making the decisions about who is going to head the various agencies that WE have to deal with on a day to day basis. I many not like some of McCain’s appointments, but I sure has heck will dislike ALL those appointed by Obama or Her Heinous.
Right now, its pretty much a three-way liberal cat fight for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and I don’t have a dog in that fight. Unless things change in a major way by November, I will choose between writing in Hunter or Tancredo or voting Constitution Party for the POUS slot and then vote for conservative candidates for all the other slots.
McCain can do all the “reaching out” he wants to folks like me, but I’m not buying it unless I see some very clear and drastic actions on his part that show he means it. Firing and repudiating Juan Hernandez and his other “open borders advisors” will do for starters. Not holding my breath that such an event will happen.
Did you read my post? I said I was planning to vote, and I expect most Freepers will vote. But, I also said, we have no way to persuade the base to vote. With no enthusiasm and no heart, the numbers are bound to plunge, whether we like it or not.
And that’s not our doing, however the McCain pimps try to spin it, it’s the RNC and their enablers.
Sorry, I didn't mean the "you" specific, I meant the "you" generic, as in anyone that doesn't vote.
My apologies for the misunderstanding.
I’m sorry, I didn’t think that comment was difficult to understand. Having spend quite a bit of time in the “third world,” perhaps I’m assuming too much.
In most of the third world the societies are all made of people of the same basic heritage. That’s not true across the board, but it’s commonly the case. You can look throughout much of Central and South America for the template I’m referring to...people are generally poor and uneducated, and there is a ruling “class” among the population. But for the most part these third-world countries aren’t in the condition they’re in because of the conquest and occupation of another nation.
What we’re looking at in the US is something different. Once a great mass of illegals and their offspring achieves majority status in the US we will effectively been conquered from within...most probably without firing a shot. There won’t be a “ruling class” over a large mass of poor workers who are linked by a common heritage and language. There will be a conquering/ruling group made largely of a common heritage standing over smaller groups that together make up the minority.
When people talk about illegal immigration turning us into a third-world country, they’re missing the worst of it. My fear is that this situation isn’t going to evolve into a situation nearly as much like living in Lima Peru as it will be like living in Baghdad in the early 1990s. If what we see from the acts of a large number of illegals (see Newark and/or stories on MS-13 violence) currently living under the "fear" of US law is any indication of what's to come when they achieve majority status and fear the law no more, current US citizens should be very afraid of what's to come if we don't turn this immigration situation around, and quickly.
Add global warming laws into that mix and thus a relentlessly declining economy and we will have something like perpetual gang war throughout society with the government protecting the most aggressive gangs. Stock ammo but it will be hard to get after only a little while.
Big Deal. The republicans outspent the democrats. As of now, I see no reason to bother voting.
The U.S. Congress has nothing to do with district lines.
Congressional district lines are drawn by state legislatures -- so it's important to have control of them.
In Maine we had a democrat governor who was hated by the people. In the election a third party candidate (a long time 'rat who suddenly declared she was an independent and a "fiscal conservative") ran to siphon votes off of the social conservative Republican.
Result - the hated rat was re-elected with only 38% of the vote.
North is right, if a hard right conservative was running and a Guiani or Bloomberg split off siphoned off the country club pro-choice, pro gay marriage crowd, we'd be screaming bloody murder.
We can bicker and discuss, but if we don't pull together in November, we'll have breathed life into the liberals - a group that was about to become extinct only 3 years ago.
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