In November 2016 I will vote for the candidate without a D after their name. I may go home and take a long hot shower while trying to get to the bottom of bottle of Tennessee whisky but I WILL vote and I will vote to beat the Dems. If I can’t vote for someone I will vote against someone else but I will not stay home and pout like a baby because my perfect candidate didn’t make the finals.
The ‘perfection’ canard is a lie spread by liberal republicans because they ran someone that didn’t even match their party platform on abortion, amnesty, gun-control, socialized medicine or big government.
/johnny
There are other alternatives to voting for the faux conservative and staying home - you could write in the candidate that best represents your convictions.
Do you live in a swing state? Do you know how the electoral college works? If no to the first and yes to the second, then why compromise.
I didn’t stay home, I voted against both and for a conservative. Not looking for a perfect candidate but would not be a hypocrite for voting for Romney.
And candidates with “R”s after their name can be just as bad (Romney was proof of that). I stand by my principles and yes I voted. I also left the GOP over Romney.
*Dons flame suit*
BRAVO!
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you.
I will work like hell during the primaries to have a conservative candidate to vote for. I hope and pray that I will get to vote for a conservative candidate in the general election.
But when it comes time to vote in the general election, one of only two candidates is going to be elected, the one with the D after his/her/its name or the one with the R. If I have to, I will hold my nose and vote against the one with the D.
Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are both turning 80 in 2016. Clarence Thomas is turning 68. The next president is almost certain to replace at least one of the three. Any Democrat appointment will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years.
The Constitution says whatever 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices say it says. If the Democrats get to replace Scalia, Kennedy or Thomas then every 5/4 decision that we have ever won, including DC v. Heller (upholding the right keep to bear arms) and Citizens United v. FEC (upholding free speech) will be reversed.
In 1986, the Supreme Court held that there is no constitutional right to commit sodomy. In 2003, the Court reversed itself and found that a right to sodomy was in the Constitution all along. Ten years later, the Supreme Court found a constitutional right for homosexuals to marry each other.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
You may intend to vote against the D, but if you vote for a Democrat-Lite Republican, you will only be acting to move the Republican party left.
Intentions at the voting booth are very different from the act of voting.
I've been voting against the Ds JUST LIKE YOU for nearly 40 years, EandH Dad. I've been diligently voting AGAINST leftists and the Republican party has diligently and ridiculously been turning left. How can I keep getting more of what I've been voting AGAINST?
Wake up, STOP accusing others of being like babies because they've figured out what you have yet to grasp, and BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT YOU ARE VOTING FOR. Stop buying into the unicorn fantasy of voting "against."
Well said!