... perhaps the greater purpose of the endless lesser-of-two-evils charade was to see if the establishment could convince us to compromise our conscience and be drawn back into the game ...
Posted on 12/06/2012 1:22:58 PM PST by Zakeet
... perhaps the greater purpose of the endless lesser-of-two-evils charade was to see if the establishment could convince us to compromise our conscience and be drawn back into the game ...
I got really tired of being berated here on FR because I wouldn't vote for the liberal(R).
I don't vote for liberals. Ever.
/johnny
I was not drawn back in. I no longer vote in national elections. Not that it makes a difference, as I live in MN and my candidate has never won our electoral votes.
Not that it ever would have mattered, because ni election that matters will ever be decided by one vote.
Anybody ever even heard of the Liberty Movement berfore?
~crickets~
I didn't think so. A whole lot of blustering here over some Liberty Movement no one ever heard of.
I am sympathetic to the liberty movement. I even paid LP dues for a few years, before Ruby Ridge and Waco. And I agree that the GOP is terminally ill.
But my adequate GOP congressman lost to a communist this year by 6000 votes, and the Libertarian in the race got 12 000 votes.
This was an official Jim Noble-designated BAD THING.
Comments appreciated.
I may have missed it, but did everything he described in the last election revolve around defeating gop candidates? Was there even one candidate identified as being of "The Liberty Movement" that won an election without essentially running on the gop ticket?
Kind of hard to "thrive" when all you can do is make other people lose to leftwingers.
RINO File.
“Anybody ever even heard of the Liberty Movement berfore?”
Yes. It is libertarianism with a nice new marketing package. What it is NOT is a party of conservative values.
Yeah, I went and Googled Liberty Movement.
The results were Libertarians and Ron Paul. See my tagline. I HATE Libertarians. They are one or two steps better than your average Occu-tard.
Need to move away from the usual players. Cant believe Bill Clinton is still involved.
“liberty movement is thriving” ??
on what planet?
“The point is, Ron Paul, a true conservative”
BS, libertarians are the masters of standing for nothing. Yes they have sound fiscal policies (sometimes to extreme), but if you cannot stand for conservative values (even social ones) you stand for nothing. The unraveling of this country is based partially in its allowance of morality and history of acting on that morality to be cast aside in the name of diversity and political correctness.
Yes I don’t care what you do in your house as long as it stays in your house and does not harm anyone else (which covers abuse cases), but allowing for cultural definitions to be re-defined is not conservative.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke (basically the libertarian mantra)
Libertarian: Free markets, legal recreational drugs and yeah, yeah, that Bible stuff, too. If bombs are raining down on your head, call the military right away, but otherwise, don’t spend much on it, because it all goes to Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex”.
Conservative: The Bible, legitimate free enterprise, law and order and true national defense, requiring the blood and treasure necessary, no more, no less.
It really is a catch-22. If you vote your conscience you acknowledge that more dems will be elected as a result. However voting for the lesser of two evils is what allows the GOP to remain in power as they shift to the left.
Why, yes, focus on the fringe differences....Don’t bother worrying about the elephant in the room, so to speak, on the basics: smaller Constitutional gov’t, lower taxes, Rule of Law and FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM.
Naw, worry about the stoners (even the recreational users), the gays (and WHY is gov’t in the biz of marriage?), pulling back our troops where they’re not wanted/needed), etc.
It’s amazing, when the man-power is needed, what some in the Conservative wing focus on to dismiss a large swath of like-minded peoples.
Focus and join on the major points and battle the little bits LATER.
Tennessee Liberty Alliance
http://www.tnliberty.org/
Liberty Alliance
http://libertyalliance.com/
Florida Conservative Liberty Alliance
http://www.claflorida.org/
To name a few
Once the concepts get laundered through the DC bureaucracy into politically correct concepts and compromises ....not so much.
self-ping
People like you gave us Obama. Thanks!
Now we have Obamacare.
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