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Conservatives: Sitting Out 2008 Is the Height of Idiocy by Ben Shapiro
Family Security Matters ^ | 14 February 2008 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 02/14/2008 7:43:09 AM PST by K-oneTexas

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To: Right_in_Virginia
You’re spitting in the eye of every honorable American soldier.

Johnny Mac doesn't care enough to do what needs to be done to get info from captured soldiers. Nor have I heard a peep out of him about the fact that the chinese are supplying weapons that are used to kill our soldiers.
61 posted on 02/14/2008 8:19:25 AM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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To: NavyCanDo

If u want socialist welfare, high taxes outta your checks, the incentive to invest reduced by elevating the capital gains, activist judges overturning everything we stand for and a defeat in Iraq.... go ahead and sit out. When you get your heads out of the sand you will be facing a scary landscape.


62 posted on 02/14/2008 8:19:43 AM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: K-oneTexas
"But conservatives are fools if they stay home in November."

Bears repeating...

63 posted on 02/14/2008 8:20:03 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.")
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To: NavyCanDo

"Hillary, you really are my valentine,, you will force the right wing nutcases to vote for me HA-HA-HA, no matter which of us wins I will always reach across the isle to pass your agenda. Love, YOUR Maverick”

LOVE.


64 posted on 02/14/2008 8:20:41 AM PST by sickoflibs (Are libs really as dumb as they act??(maybe they just assume we are that dumb))
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To: cripplecreek

info from captured soldiers. = info from captured terrorists


65 posted on 02/14/2008 8:20:46 AM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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To: MSRiverdog
"The thing is everyone that lets the Dems win because they don’t like McCain (I don’t either) know what they are in for. Kinda stupid to let that happen isn’t it?"

Let's be perfectly clear about where, exactly, to place the blame: Can you say Republican National Committee?

They had their chance to push, influence, advertise, and otherwise promote a conservative, yet they have done nothing of the sort. Instead, we see that all the Republican establishment is fawning over John McCain, as if he is the second coming of Bob Dole, or something.

BTW: John McCain can't win the general, and he is the Republican's next "throw-away" nominee.

"Because he's "earned it", don't you know?"

66 posted on 02/14/2008 8:21:32 AM PST by Designer
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To: cripplecreek

Nonsense.


67 posted on 02/14/2008 8:22:12 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Go to hell. Sell out republican ass kisser. McCain will see to it that our guys have no country to come back to. Illegal lover, Globull warming believer, CFR supporter, Gitmo hater, Ted Kennedy coddler, Hillary Clinton loving, non waterboarding wimp. Traitor. I served did you?


69 posted on 02/14/2008 8:22:28 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: K-oneTexas

If we rally behind McDole and he wins, that sends the message that he is OK. The next batch of candidates will make this year’s set look good.


70 posted on 02/14/2008 8:22:51 AM PST by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: K-oneTexas
He has always fought governmental corruption

Except when he was committing it (Keating 5)
I've got to agree though that sitting out is a bad idea. I can understand passing up voting for President, but you have to protect the down ballot candidates.

71 posted on 02/14/2008 8:23:02 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: K-oneTexas

I’m not sitting out. I’m voting Third for President and waiting for 2012.


72 posted on 02/14/2008 8:23:42 AM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: ARE SOLE

You’re clearly in the grips of MDS.

Get some professional help.


73 posted on 02/14/2008 8:23:56 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: eclecticEel

You are absolutely correct. It took Carter to open America’s eyes and elect Reagan. This is not the end when we lose. (the GOP WILL lose this one in a big way.)

It is only another beginning in our rebuilding process. Anything the Democrats do can be undone. We can also lobby our hearts out and make so much noise, they will have great difficulty in getting any legislation passed that will stop us.

Now is the time to stand up and fight for what we believe, not cower in the corner and vote for Juan McEvil because some of us are cowards and “FEAR” the Democrats.

On the contrary. Even though my old combat unit was greatly out numbered, we won all of our battles because the enemy feared our great determination and resolve.

The enemy could not understand our unit citation (Emblem of the 101st Airborne) because they had never seen eagles before, so they called us “Chicken Men”. And to them, that meant great respect and fear. Their saying was, “Never fight the Chicken Men, you can’t win against them.”

The Democrats are spineless and lack all moral direction. They are easily defeated by the strong and courageous.


74 posted on 02/14/2008 8:24:17 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: ARE SOLE

I have to wonder how a soldier in the field will feel when he gets the call that his wife and daughter were raped and murdered by an illegal alien.


75 posted on 02/14/2008 8:24:26 AM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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To: Jeff Head

Whew! I was breezing through the typically ignorant and just glossed over yours until I saw the name. Backup for a reread. Second time I saw where you were, spot on. It seems to be a lesson that many conservatives and Republicans refuse to learn, divided we fall and fail.

There is one thing to be learned from the liberal and democrat side of the isle, they stick together. Rarely any talk about holding your nose, or the lesser of two evils. Leave it to the overly proud and in their mind, principled, who seem to prefer to lay down rather than fight.

The fight is a constant, it never ends, before during and after elections the fight is endless as long as there are folks out there whose minds are not right and are willing to attempt to change the nature of the Republic. I would much rather fight from the high ground than as the party out of power with no control over any branch of government.

It wasn’t so long ago that Ross Perot was able to take 20 percent or so of voters, and the painful result was eight years of WJC, surely our memories are not that short.


76 posted on 02/14/2008 8:25:07 AM PST by wita (truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I didn't have a problem with Bob Dole.

Nor did I. Dole wasn't as conservative as I would have wanted but he was every bit as conservative as Fred Thompson who was supposedly the conservative savior this year. I still wish Dole had gotten the nomination in 1988 rather than George H. W. Bush.

Bob Dole is given a lot of grief for running a bad campaign but unfortunately for Republicans, Bill Clinton wasn't going to be beaten in 1996, no matter who was the Republican candidate.

77 posted on 02/14/2008 8:25:48 AM PST by CommerceComet (Mitt Romney: Boldly telling the audience whatever it wants to hear.)
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To: K-oneTexas

I’m not “sitting out”....I’ll vote for the most conservative 3rd party or write in if there isn’t one.

....unless Juan McCain repeals the free-speech blackout periods provisions of McCain-Feingold BEFORE the election.


78 posted on 02/14/2008 8:25:53 AM PST by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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To: cripplecreek; beandog
I'm not trying to insult or intimidate you or anyone else. That is my opinion. Whether anyone likes it or not. Whether any one agrees or not. Many seem to now lament that the GOP is gone and would allow the country to follow suit. That is alright to let socialism get a larger foothold, saying don't worry we can bring it back in 4 or 8 years. I think that is not the case. If it was the social entitlements of the 60's would not have grown in the 80's.

I am disappointed in the GOP. I'm think that those at the top helped move things left with changing the Primary System. I believe mostly that voters need to become more educated and not revert to a case of amnesia during elections. There is a lot wrong, but I'll not walk away because things didn't go my way.

I'll not hope against hope that some other 3rd party will come alone or be created that will do what I believe is right. Third parties are just that ... third. I will continue to work within the GOP at the local and State levels to bring it back to closer to where I believe it operates best. The GOP has the best chance of making change nationwide.

I respectfully disagree with you. You have the right to your opinion and I have the right to mine. You don't know me from Adam's off ox ... but yet you would insult me by telling me my motives/opinion are base and that I don't know anything because I have a view different from yours. When I saw that picture it said to me what I've been hearing in too many threads in recent weeks. America is doomed since the GOP left conservative values and so we can allow the Dem/Libs/Socials take over.

I originally joined FR because I saw reasoned and cordial discussions. That's not the case anymore. Many seem to have a need to have all see things their way and are not above pointed sarcasm to make a point.

I still believe in what President Reagan spoke of during his life about America. And I still believe, as he did, that the GOP is the vehicle to get there.
79 posted on 02/14/2008 8:25:59 AM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: ElectricStrawberry

My vote will be a write in because the only vote wasted is the vote not cast.


80 posted on 02/14/2008 8:26:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick opposed to McCain.))
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