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To: RIghtwardHo

One way to look at this...do we want Obama for four more years and teach the GOP elites that the voters matter, or do we want Romney for 8 years. We are F’ed either way.


30 posted on 02/04/2012 6:06:00 PM PST by lwoodham (Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.)
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To: lwoodham
One way to look at this...do we want Obama for four more years and teach the GOP elites that the voters matter, or do we want Romney for 8 years. We are F’ed either way.

As Yogi Berra would have put it, this seems like Déjà vu all over again.

In 1986, California's über-liberal Democratic Senator Alan Cranston seemed vulnerable. But of the 12 or so Republican candidates, 11 were conservative, and only one, Rep. Ed Zschau, was liberal. Although conservatives dominated the California GOP at the time, the 11 conservatives split up the vote, and Zschau (as in Mao) won with about a third of the votes. Because there was no runoff, Zschau got the nomination.

This placed conservatives in a dilemma. Much as they hated Cranston, Zschau's voting record was very similar--for one thing, he was pro-abortion and rabidly anti-military. Another factor was that Cranston, due to his age, would likely serve only one more term, whereas Zschau, being young, would likely become a liberal fixture in the Senate--like Clifford Case (R-NJ) or Jake "the snake" Javits (R-NY)--and being a Republican, he would face no serious GOP challenger. We conservatives found ourselves screwed either way. I wound up voting third party, and a friend whose views are to the right of my own voted for Cranston.

In the end, Cranston narrowly won.

52 posted on 02/04/2012 8:26:39 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: lwoodham
do we want Obama for four more years and teach the GOP elites that the voters matter, or do we want Romney for 8 years.

I'm for letting the communists own the collapse.

Putting the blue blood country clubbers in for another 8 years is just putting off the inevitable.

Time coming soon to hit the reset button on this Republic and wipe the slate clean, and that means taking out the Washingtonians from both parties.

Used to think that if DC were nuked by the muzzies, it would be a crippling blow.

Sick thing is that it would probably be the best thing ever to happen to the American citizen.

69 posted on 02/04/2012 10:54:18 PM PST by Rome2000 (MYTH ROMNEY IS A MORMON MELCHIDEZEK HIGH PRIEST AND RICK SANTORUM IS A DICK)
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