Posted on 09/23/2009 9:39:56 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
I am tired of being told I have no choice in my vote. You are correct in your statement, but I resent the fact.
The alternative is to Tea Party him and hold him accountable. In fact, I will save this blog today and fax it to his office tonight.
[...because he will be better than the ‘rat alternative.]
That is the same reason Bush was elected TWICE: most people voted against the idiots the Rats put up, instead of for Democrat-Lite Bush! The only thing Bush was conservative on was foreign policy (and I appreciate him for that), but everything else he was a DEMOCRAT! He didn’t know how to say “NO” to my money!
If we get into the mode of “better this than that” you loose your base and the independents because NO ONE knows where you stand!
Trying to hold on to power in the US is like squeezing sand - the harder you squeeze, the more it falls through your fingers. Let’s not worry about holding on to what we have; let’s LEAD our nation, people and the human experiment FORWARD!
This is a dangerous proposition, but it is the truth. We have to find better candidates and elect them. The key is the primary. So whom is to run?
Either that, or he is into the pain! McCain has spent his entire career trying to find the middle ground! But I have a simple question (I am going to borrow this from Rush): Where is the middle ground between right and wrong?
The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
That is the million dollar question: whom is to run?
My daughters like my political views (they love arguing with their teachers - with facts & winning), and my thirteen year old asked why I don’t run for elected office. And I have talked to my wife about that very idea.
Mine is a hard-working, lower middle class (sometimes poor) family. I have family members that have spent time in prison. I had to file bankruptcy (for two failed businesses). We live paycheck to paycheck sometimes - depending on what goes wrong on my vehicles or if the refrigerator goes out, etc...
And although I KNOW my conservative views are what have gotten me through my life thus far, the media and rats (and even repugs) would excoriate me and my family! We would be dragged through the mud till it was coming out my ears! So, who is willing to go through this, even if it is for the betterment?
I am still considering running for local office (especially the local school board - we are going round and round), but really, who is willing to run? I don’t know, but we had better find them!
Yea!!!! Let’s increase the Democrat majority. That’ll teach us.
Let’s say John Cornyn is on the right side of issues 80% of the time. Are you saying it is better to have him replaced by someone who is wrong on the issues 90% of the time?
Many knuckleheads on FR couldn’t wait to jetison Ted Stevens, who was later found to be the victim of egregious prosecutorial misconduct, how’s that working out? His replacement is an Obama rubber-stamp, something Stevens would have NEVER been.
[Yea!!!! Let’s increase the Democrat majority. That’ll teach us.]
Thank you for making my point (see our current Administration)!
We didn’t get here just because of Bush - did you forget that these RINO’s were in charge for six of Bushes eight years. Have things gotten worse (at a faster pace) in the last two or three, sure, but we didn’t wake up here - we drove this bus too and we didn’t make the turns that we needed to make.
We kept saying, well at least this guy is not that guy. And finally, the rats put up someone with an edge, with a “new” message and he could read real well and then it all came to a crescendo!
It takes a Carter to get a Reagan! I can only hope that this really bad experiment with Obama resonates all the way down to Congress too (Carter certainly didn’t)! Maybe with the Tea Parties and the protests, the American people will wake up and stop “settling” for our candidates.
We shouldn’t have to settle for someone who wants the job - I think we should be deciding who WE want to have the job! Half the original Continental Congress had to be BEGGED and goaded into taking the job; most thought they were nothing special, their constituents saw something special in them!! Of course the threat of death for treason could have been a significant cause for resistance as well, Ha/Ha!
[Are you saying it is better to have him replaced by someone who is wrong on the issues 90% of the time?]
BTW, no, I am saying we should find someone who is 81+% right! And the next time find someone who is 82+% right - and so forth!
I voted for Cornyn this last time, I will not do so again.
I want a senator who represents Texas, not the RNC.
I was going to vote for Cornyn. I wrote him, faxed him and emailed him that if he voted for that POS bill, I would never vote for him and I would do everything to get everyone I know not to vote for him. So, I did NOT vote for him; I didn’t vote for anyone in that race.
His “response” was a form letter about how it seemed we had an “immediate need for action” and he was doing what Bush said was good (throw Bush under the bus)! As I always say, if a company is run like crap, it should and will fail - I know (I lost two). The US gov’t should NOT bailout anyone!
I told everyone that once you bailout one company, where do you stop? You see where we are now don’t you?
Trying to hold on to power in the US is like squeezing sand - the harder you squeeze, the more it falls through your fingers. Let’s not worry about holding on to what we have; let’s LEAD our nation, people and the human experiment FORWARD!
Yes, but you must remember what Rush calls incrementalism. The 'rats are masters of incrementalism. They are patient and will take one grain of sand at a time until they have the whole sandbox. Guys like you who want "the whole sandbox or nothing" will likely end up with nothing.
I already told you Cornyn (and Kay B) oppose the health care bill. If White were in, he'd surely vote for it, as would any other 'rat. Hell, yes I'll vote for Cornyn over a 'rat. He may be a RINO, but at least he's not Arlen Sphincter.
If we lose the healthcare battle, the Republic will be in grave peril. A vote from a Cornyn can stave off disaster. An "I'll show 'em!" vote for a 'rat will be a vote for socialism, which once in place, will never go away.
Hmm... I did not know that...
He still should have symbolically voted against it...
[Guys like you who want “the whole sandbox or nothing” will likely end up with nothing.]
You obviously didn’t read most of my posts. I am not “an all or nothing” guy. I am a “we can do better than this and we should try” guy!
Am I happy that Cornyn is there right now and Bill White is in Houston - ABSOLUTELY! However, when election time comes, I am not going to say, “Oh, at least he is a Republican so we don’t need to look for a better candidate!” BS - every election cycle we should be looking for the best conservative candidate available! Period!
Are Cornyn and Kay against health care reform or are they just against Obama’s health care reform? I do not want ANY reform that does not include detailed, comprehensive tort reform! I do not want ANY reform that includes ANY government run option, co-op or mandated insurance coverage (talk about incrementalism)! Where do they stand on this? Who the HE!! knows? The Republicans are NOT leading (as I stated in other posts), they ARE the party of NO! They should spend some of the precious Specter money to put commercials on stating THEIR plans (because the MSM isn’t going to cover them)! They need to LEAD us away from the government trough, not make the water taste better for the other 48% of the electorate!
As far as I am concerned, Cornyn is NOT correct 80% of the time. After the bailout debacle I see him as a correct 50% of the time; on the bailout he was 100% WRONG!! We can not afford to continue to do this to OURSELVES; THIS (my Republican is okay, yours is the problem) theory is what is giving the rats one grain at a time! Think about it!
It will take nothing short of a miracle for ANYONE to convince me to vote for a man that helped to indebt my unborn-grandkids!
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