Posted on 11/02/2014 5:33:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Look, I’m not going to lie to you – your vote matters. But let’s be honest, there are Republicans on the ballot who aren’t very conservative. Most of them don’t agree with me on everything and surely don’t agree with you on everything. In fact, many of them are downright awful.
So if you find yourself in a state where the Senate race is close, and you don’t like some of the things the Republican candidate stands for – just stay home.
A message must be sent: We conservatives could not beat all the people we don’t like in the primary, so we’re not going to vote.
That’ll show the establishment. That’ll show the country. That’ll show the future.
So if you’re a conservative in Colorado, don’t vote for Cory Gardner. If you’re in Iowa, show that Joni Ernst what’s what! Live in North Carolina? Who does that Thom Tillis think he is, anyway? From Kentucky? Let Mitch McConnell know who’s boss! Georgia? David Perdue? I don’t think so. Kansas? Teach that Pat Roberts a lesson! Live in New Hampshire? Scott Brown – yuck, am I right?
Look, if conservatives don’t draw a line in 2014, when will it be drawn?
Just because tea party and conservative candidates couldn’t win a majority in primary challenges doesn’t mean they aren’t the majority. It was dirty tricks and the establishment that screwed you … everyone knows that. So show the establishment you won’t take not getting your way anymore.
Honestly, what’s the point of voting for a candidate who agrees with you a majority of the time? Don’t vote. Let someone who you agree with on nothing win, and then next time – in six years – that person comes up for reelection, maybe the Republican Party will come to its senses and let you get your way.
I mean, what would be better for the country – Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader? Obviously Harry Reid. Mitch McConnell is a squish on a few things, wouldn’t run blocker for President Obama and wouldn’t be a rubberstamp for any Supreme Court nominee, or any court, for that matter. Where’s the lesson for the establishment for that?
Sure, I know, the country will have a court system packed with activist judges, and the president will use his magic pen and phone to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and who knows what else, but principle will be maintained. That’s a moral victory, right? Those count for something in politics, right? They have to count for something…
Of course, they count for nothing. Yet that nothing is what many millions of Americans, including many of you (judging by comments on other columns in which I’ve dealt with this topic), are prepared to vote for by stubbornly refusing to vote for a candidate who isn’t “your candidate.”
Sorry, your candidate lost, and your remaining choice sucks. I get it, I’ve been there. But so what! Get over yourself. Everyone who voted in the primary and your choice lost. It happens. It’s part of life. So you’re just going to quit?
If you want to right the ship of state, how did you think that would work? Your one chosen candidate would somehow undo half a century of constitutional disregard in 20 minutes? Of course not. It’s all going to be incremental. Nothing this big turns on a dime. But before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse.
Harry Reid remaining majority leader in the Senate means things continue to get worse. Barack Obama packing the courts with like-minded judges means things will continue to get worse.
There will come a point of no return, where we will tip over that ledge from which there is no coming back. If you stay home, or you cast a “message” vote for some third party nothing-burger, that’s what you’re voting for. That’s what you’ll get, and that’s the country you’ll be leaving for your kids to inherit.
A vote for anyone other than the Republican, no matter who that Republican is, is a vote for Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
You want to purge the party? Do it from a position of strength. I’m all for a battle royale for the soul of the Republican Party, but not until AFTER the Democrats are vanquished.
Tuesday, go vote. Vote for the Republicans. Send a message that you are not a moody, unreliable person who will take your ball and go home if you don’t get your way, but that you accept your party’s primary decision. It’s a decision you don’t like. It’s a decision you’ll fight in the next primary if necessary. But for the good of the country, you’ll live in “now” and work for the future.
Anything else is a vote for progressives, and anyone who does that is no conservative.
Simple. Read the name of every person abandoning conservatism for their blessed RINOs. I have debated most of them. I have nothing to fear.
Do your own legwork.
Sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.
Romney's out announcing a GOP Senate will put an Immigration Bill on POTUS desk.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/romney-immigration-_n_6089552.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
He cannot.
Everytime he types one of their names on his keyboard, it fades in and out on his screen. Just like a cheshire.
Which closely mirrors their conservatism ;)
The ones that just thought the conservative primary candidate basically was owed a win because they were conservative.
In Kentucky Mitch fought like hell, while our side just sneered at how dirty he was for fighting harder than we did.
In South Carolina we ran a bunch of people in a stupid plan to try to beat Graham by keeping his vote total under 50%, instead of running ONE guy to beat him outright.
And then these people acted like the RINOs just really pulled a dirty trick by actually beating those candidates, and not just losing?
They were so cocky that they forgot to actually destroy these guys, and instead thought that it would be an easy win.
Nobody has abandoned anything. We must stop Obama.
I imagine if you were to hold your nose and vote for Reagan?
You do recall all of his liberal policies eh?
(I say if..because I doubt you have ever voted, and if admit to it, Nader would be #1.)
People that won’t fight should lose. And that includes so called conservatives. Eventually when their big screens and new toys are repoed of banned they will man up.
But this thread shows they only fight against conservatism/conservative ideas. Not against RINOs. They vote for those every time.
I vote for conservatives every election. Including Reagan once. As I was too young for twice.
Ball in your court sport.
And yes, if you vote RINO, you abandon conservatism to do it. The two diametrically opposed ideas cannot both be held true. If you vote for a RINO, you EMPOWER RINO ideals.
Is Thom Tillis a RINO?
explain..........
He should have added one further point: vote, and then dedicate every ounce of your energy from that moment on to holding the recipient of your reluctant vote to upholding the principles and ideas of liberty upon which America's 200-year history was formed!
You have technology available which can put the Founders' plain and simple ideas into the hands of every person you know. There is now no excuse for allowing the counterfeit ideas so-called "progressives" teach in the schools to dominate public debate on issues.
We lazy citizens have allowed our liberty to be commandeered by power-greedy political ideologues. An informed electorate might, over the next two years, be willing to hear and consider the ideas of a Cruz over those of a Clinton. We can do our part, but not if we take the "exit ramp" on voting day.
Been down that road sport. I have individually called people on this on this thread. Everyone can read. But you it seems.
You express a point that leaves out the majority, and discounts the abject selfishness of those trying to send a message that falls on deaf ears. The message of the selfish and self righteous is only heard by the majority who are made to suffer the abject stupidity of those few quitters willing to sell the rest of us into slavery.
I am late to this thread and have read but two posts. Remaining comments self censored but recorded, and should I find them proven true by the remainder of this thread, I just might comment again.
Is Mitch a RINO? Explain.
The questions you pose represent a weak attempt to obfuscate and misdirect. Very few here would dispute that GOP leadership has been pitiful for an extended period of time. Your hope is that by highlighting that fact you will be able to discourage conservative voters from voting against the much greater evil - democrats.
Here are but a few of the questions you should be asking yourself: Would Obamacare have been proposed/passed under Romney/Mcain? Would those people who died because their coverage was cancelled as a result of obamacare have suffered their fate under Romney/Mcain? Would the judiciary be filled with left wing radicals under Romney/McCain? Would Romney/McCain be preparing to unilaterally and unconstitutionally grant amnesty to millions of illegals? How easy will it be to reverse the damage done by Obama?
These are but a few questions that come to mind that you should be asking yourself - there are countless other questions that are of dramatically greater importance to the long term future of this country than the ones you posed in your pathetically transparent attempt to obfuscate. Really, just go away and shut up.
Your whole premise is wrong.
Seriously?
Yeah it was someone else’s fault. That’s the ticket to winning. Offload the screw up on supposed moderates that were looking for another moderate to beat Romney.
That’s classic self-denial.
God help is if Cruz runs. We can be assured that people on FR will dismiss him as an “also ran” moderate too.
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