Posted on 08/11/2014 8:46:10 PM PDT by Ari Bussel
we got Obama in spite of 3 Million stay at home GOP.
I don’t need your history lessons or reminders on ANYTHING, as I’ve likely been at this as long as you.
You and I simply disagree on tactics.
Neither kept Obama out of office.
I’m grass roots Tea Party, and have listed on this thread the work I’ve done to clean up the GOP here in Colorado.
As previously noted, I want Ted Cruz for 2016.
I’d like to know who you think is better?
If you have been at this as long as I have, then starting in the 1960s (for my generation) actual conservatives have been fighting the special interests and the monied powers constantly within the GOP. Goldwater (as an abortion and perversion cheerleader he was not a very good man) was nominated and Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, William Scranton, and the rest of the uberwealthy marching band collectively lost what passed for their minds.
So they compromised Nixon, got rid of the formerly liberal Agnew who had turned conservative, saw to it that Nixon was replaced by Feckless Ford. Reagan, having narrowly lost to Ford in 1976, was nominated and then elected by landslide in 1980 and 1984. Then a more anonymous gang of the usual suspects came back and seized the reins under Bush the Elder an have been indulging their delusions ever since.
You are getting the history since, voting for the Mittwit as you did, you obviously fail to understand it.
Your tactic is to vote for any POS no matter how radical so long as he/she has an R after the name on the ballot. I think that is the definition of party hack. I used to be one, however conservative. OTOH, my resume is primarily conservative. So I guess we do disagree on tactics if that is what you think you have in reflexively voting Republican no matter how bad the nominee. If they are leftists in GOP drag, I won't encourage them.
So you told off a GOP Congresswoman and she retired. Who? Why did you tell her off? Does it matter? Does the new Congresscritter vote to depose Boehner, McCarthy, Scalise and Cantor before them? If not, why not?
My goal was first of all to keep Romney out of office and prevent a four year Kumbaya fest between the Demonrat leftists and the GOP-E monarchist zombies. I think that was successful. I don't remember his inauguration or the Kumbaya fest. Do you?
I voted for our own Eternal Vigilance. Cleanest conscience I’ve had since voting for Reagan. Neither I nor most of that rising tide of permanently fed up actual conservatives stayed home. Voting third party is an option and besides there were some lower office candidates worth voting for. Nominate another Romney and see what a small number of defections 3 million can be. We aren’t sneaking up on you at the last moment. We warn you well in advance. And it’s a promise and not a mere threat.
Oh?
It appears that your data source is wrong.
| 2008 | 2012 |
|
Barack Obama (Democrat) 65,915,796 51.06% |
Source: FEC pdf files for 2008 and 2012
It appears you never know which yardstick to pick up!
>http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2004/tables.pdf<
CANDIDATES LISTED ON AT LEAST ONE STATE BALLOT
Candidate (Party Label) Popular Vote Total Percent of Popular Vote
George W. Bush (Republican) 62,040,610 50.73%
I’m not “whining” about anything.
I posted 2004 data to illustrate the number of GOP voters back then, to help you recognize how many stayed home in 2012.
Stayed HOME?
There were MORE than in 2008!!!
Fred was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young ‘pullets’, and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
Fred’s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
To Fred’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring.
He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell Piece Prize,” but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.
Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.
Vote carefully in the next election, you can’t always hear the bells.
I think you’re catching on.
That’s how you tell folks stayed home in 2012.
You look at the data from 2004 and when you notice there were 2 Million more (R) votes than there were in 2012, you conclude that some folks stayed home.
Now, we can do some more homework and look at Registered (R)s voting in 2004, 2008, and 2012, and that will paint a clearer picture.
Oh; I did this LONG ago!
Folks want to complain that Pubs stayed home and didn't vote for Romney over Obama; when this is patently FALSE.
Obama only ran twice; so it's no fair going back to Teddy Roosevelt and pulling up some numbers.
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