Posted on 11/04/2017 2:46:53 PM PDT by OneVike
O’Connor didn’t “screw” Reagan. Reagan always took the “respectable” line on judges and abortion: It’s improper to have any “litmus test.” I choose judges based on their qualifications.
Meanwhile, Democrats, who invented the “no litmus tests” bugaboo, have left it behind, and are out there screaming, “I will appoint only judges who will protect a woman’s right to [kill her baby]!”
As I’ve pointed out, a Democrat win is a win for the GOO-Uniparty. They will not put up more conservative candidates if they lose. They were ecstatic with 8 years of Obama, and ran Jeb Bush after McCain and Romney came up short.
We’ll see. I’ve got no dog in this hunt.
GOO-Uniparty = GOP-Uniparty
“he cedes any right to help shape the Republican ticket in crucial primaries in states that have closed primaries like mine.”
So true. Pro-lifers hung in there instead of going third party and now the GOP is proudly pro-life.
Besides, we now know for a certainty that the Republican Party is Democrat-Lite.
All that the Republicans do is slow the Democrats just enough so as not to shock the sheep into rebellion.
Maybe if the Democrats had tried to shove gay "marriage" at us in the 80's there would have been enough of a backlash that we wouldn't be worrying about religious liberty today.
Nothing is certain. Each person should vote his/her own conscience.
Once you decide to vote pragmatically rather than idealistically you open the possibility that the most pragmatic vote is to vote in the most abhorrent people so that the sheep wake up before it is too late.
I consider my vote for Nader instead of W to be a very good pragmatic vote. I was hoping the Green Party would get at least 5% of the popular vote and then be able to sue to get into the debates and get public funds.
If the Greens had become a bigger force then they would have been a thorn in the side of the Democrats and maybe siphoned away enough votes that the RINOs would have prevailed in the elections against Obama.
But obviously those who advocate merely voting for the RINO over the Dem have a limited vision of what truly pragmatic things can be done via the ballot.
I reregistered as Democrat this past election cycle in order to vote for Bernie against Hillary. I was going to change back, but decided to stick as a Democrat. Now I can attend their meetings and get some inside info on their doings. Also, every bit of mail they send my way is a dead loss to them.
“They will not put up more conservative candidates”
In my state, they don’t ‘put up’ any one.
People step forward to run and either win the Primary or motivate delegates to show up at a convention.
Noted. I’m talking more about the presidential prinaries. The RNC has made an art form out of rigging that system. They let Democrats vote in many of our key states, making it nearly impossible for the most conservative candidate to win. They also dilute the field by way of distributing the resistance to their chosen standard bearer. They have other ways of influencing the outcome as well—financial shenanigans and well financed SuperPacs, to run vile, dishonest ads against conservatives to name two.
We wouldn’t get stuck with abject losers like McCain and Romney if the primaries were less manipulated. That is just a fact.
In my opinion, there is only one reason to vote for a RINO - that is to put off the sacrifice that should be done now until later, so that the next generation or two can deal with the problem.
Having Democrats in office is a quick death. Having RINOs in office is a slow death. If we refuse to vote in the RINOs, and the Democrats take control, the country will suffer and probably collapse within a relatively short time, or, at least, life in the USA will get bad enough to where the conservative couch potatoes will recognize that there is a problem and possibly be motivated to deal with it in whatever means available. In other words, the water gets boiled quickly and hopefully the frog jumps out of the pan.
However, voting in RINOs means that left-wing policies, rather than being implemented all at once, are merely put in place little by little, boiling the frog slowly. Every RINO victory makes regular Americans believe that the danger has been averted for another 2 or 4 or 6 years, and so they go back to sleep, and by the time the water is hot enough for the people to raise the alarm. it is the CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN who have to fix the problem, rather than the generation that should have done it.
The current generation of under-age kids have a bleak future as things stand, and it is because every generation before them failed them. Every generation before them wanted to kick that can down the road, desperately voting for the lesser of two evils so that there wouldn’t be any immediate significant consequences, but today’s kids are the recipients of all the consequences that have piled up over the last 100 years or more.
Continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils is an act of moral cowardice. Voting for the lesser of two evils last presidential election would have gotten us Jeb Bush. Think about that.
I see what you mean. So true. Trump 2016 may have changed all that nonsense. Hope so!
I hope so too. But we can be sure the swamp is plotting against Trump all day every day. I pray for his safety.
Bump
Agreed. Fight like hell in the primary, but no matter who wins, you can’t let a Dem win anywhere ever.
there is no difference between a RINO and a Progressive. They both agree on policy.
Bullcrap.
Reagan wanted to over turn Roe vs Wade. He specifically chose his appointees with the idea that he would end Roe vs Wade.
He was vehemently disappointed by the way his nominees voted once they got on the court. Do not take my word for it, take Mark Levin. He was part of Reagan’s administration. He knows first hand.
Stop listening to revisionist history as taught by leftist scholars.
Yes, Clinton had the wall put up that saved his butt from being prosecuted in White Water, thus one branch could not share info from the other and what we knew we could not stop.Thus what was learned from the 1st World Trade bombing could not be shared with the FBI.
I know you are not a novice here and do not know what is common knowledge on FR, and with the 911 commission? Or have you been in a stupor for over 13 years?
Read and get educated
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461127/posts
Of course it is impossible to say what would have happened if Dukakis had won in 1988--perhaps some Republican might have beaten him in 1992.
“I won’t vote” is a well known political tactic.
Beware of any who espouse it.
The seem to have missed that the Left got so much of its agenda done by a slow and methodical "take every inch offered" systematic assault on us and are too lazy and spoiled to fight a sustained war.....
Wow. You sure can tell a lot from one “Huh?”
How’s my cholesterol doing?
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