Posted on 12/13/2013 3:37:52 AM PST by LD Jackson
The question is moot since conservatives don’t bother to vote. 4 million stayed home in Nov. 2012.
“Have you ever heard of the saying, “if at age 20 you are a CONSERVATIVE, you have NO HEART, if at age 40 you are a LIBERAL, you have NO BRAIN?”
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Dear, I have known that phrase for many years.
The sad thing is that there is no longer a Churchill or a Ronald Reagan.
The way the Republican party appears to be standing now I don’t want anything to do with them.
Come election time I will pick and choose. I will vote Republican only if that Republican is Conservative, Other than that they can KMA./
A perfect example of what I have telling you: you seem to want to come on to FR and proclaim how much superior your lifestyle is now that you live in the Philippines and away from that evil USA.
The question is: why are you even here if all the politics being discussed don't even affect you?
conservatives are a plurality in America, but not a majority. The fact is, most people are un-engaged enough to fall for whatever emotional ploy is made during a political campaign. As others said, people are conservative in principle but will fight to the mat for whatever program they receive benefit. That can be SS, Medicare, subsidies, tax breaks, etc.
As said recently in the right-wing media, what is going on in DC is more of a soap opera or reality show...completely un-reflective of real life or the problems we face as a nation. Most are not engaged to get past that aspect.
If you think conservatives are a minority, then you better explain how conservatives and Republicans control 28 states while liberals control 11 states.
There are two political battlefields: the states and Washington DC.
I am more correct than you think. I have two friends who used to be very liberal and they have gotten more conservative as they aged.
Plus you sure sound like a pessimist.
Keep a close eye on 2014, we could very well see a replay of 2010 here. :)
“The question is: why are you even here if all the politics being discussed don’t even affect you?”
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Because I am am an American going back to my great great great uncle, Uncle Sam, Troy, NY, war of 1812, and I have been a FReeper longer then you.
The fact that I am enjoying a new life in my retirement has nothing to do with love of country, but it IS far superior to what I would have back there, as there is no way that I could live there on my small social security.
Feel free to join the “dog in a manger club” They are a small group of sad kids that hate my guts because I am not there to share their pain in the Obamination.
The simple answer is “Yes”. The underlying reasons are manifold and not quite so simple; ranging from single issue voters, to low/no information voters, and a federally corrupted public education system that teaches accommodation to extremes rather than true basic, functional knowledge and accurate history.
Thanks to “Obamacare” people are NOW waking up and smelling the coffee for a change.
“Plus you sure sound like a pessimist.”
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No, I am a realist. America will not recover in MY lifetime.
I do, however, pray that it will in yours, but prepare for very hard times.
In the end there is right and wrong and all those gray areas are BS but via Group Speak and PCness too many people have come to accept it.
A vast majority of people are conservative in their personal lives.
He’s right. DC is the enemy of The People. A conservative working for DC, thinking they’re going to change something, is like a Jew working in Berlin, circa 1940.
Why should we re-elect spineless republicans that fold and roll over ALL THE TIME!?!?
F!@K Boehner
F!@K McConnell
They're dead and useless.
I used to have respect for Ryan, but he should've gotten a much better deal than he did. The dhimmis are weakened because of the disaster they brought on themselves. And he let them lift the sequester for what?
A bunch of empty promises!
We're going to have a $700B deficit this year! The dhimis are going to pack the courts so tight we're screwed for a generation.
How dare they lecture us when they've been nothing but miserable failures. If they don't have the stomach for a fight they should get the hell off the stage.
Republicans now lead the generic congressional ballots by the major poll takers, and eliminating Obamacare was the key reason Democrats -- not conservatives -- shut down the Federal government by their unwillingness to negotiate.
That would not have happened, and the national conversation would not have shifted to eliminating Obamacare, were it not for the principled stand of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Care to try again?
“people are NOW waking up and smelling the coffee for a change.”
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Yes, but the coffee has already been brewed and being served.
You need to think outside the box. Being a devoted FReeper is great, but we are a very small minority in the scheme of Obumbo’s USSA.
Reality has very hard knocks.
I’m betting that all the issue positions of the “Tea Party” would poll favorably,
but then when mentioned by name, the Tea Party itself polls unfavorably.
There’s only one reason for that - propaganda.
MSM - when/if the SHTF, you’re gonna be decorating the most lampposts.
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