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.
And did he not later call it the greatest mistake of his career? Yup.
You do it by burning the damned party to the ground, and then going somewhere else and starting over from scratch.
Period.
Oh I didn’t miss it. I just was too young to contribute to it ;) Ronaldus has always been my hero ;)
My question is?
Knowing what you know now, would you vote for RR (Ronald Reagan) again?
Amen. Eventually all these folks will run to the head of the parade after that happens claiming to have been there all along. Never fails.
Why should I have a solution? Isn’t that the job of the guys asking for your vote? So far, their solution is to “shut up and do what we tell you,” or “the only way to have a voice is to have a seat at the table” . . . which happens to be the roulette table. . . at the Republican casino, where don’t you know it? The house always wins.
The only solution I have is one that will years of pain for all of us. Kill the party. . . the one that is legally barred from fighting voter fraud. . . the one that’s bound and determined to have amnesty over the objections of it’s base. . . the one that is about halfway through the process of selling out to the gay agenda and doesn’t even want to pretend to take a stand on “social issues” anymore? Kill the party that decided that it was a great idea to borrow trillions from the Chinese to pay for a war that will never end? Or decided it was a good idea to have free trade with a Communist nation in the first place, so that now don’t make anything ourselves? (I don’t have a big problem with free trade with free nations, but buying everything from Communists? Am I supposed to be happy about that?) . . . the party that backed the largest increase in entitlements until this Obama guy came along. The list goes on and on, but we’re supposed to forget about when November comes around.
Here’s another solution, but it’s not one for me to have. You guys, the politicians, the ones that are probably going to win on November 6th regardless of what I say? PROVE ME WRONG. Clean up your act and grow a pair. Impeach the criminal in the White House, there have been so many high crimes and misdemeanors I’ve lost count. Take stands and stick to them. When the leftwing media calls you a villain. Play it up, don’t apologize to them. Remove corrupt judges from office. Don’t stab your own base in the back. Really, stop stabbing your base in the back. You can’t shame my vote back. . . you have to earn it. I’m willing to be proved wrong. I really hope it could happen, but I think it’s too late for you; prove me wrong.
Why should I have a solution? Isn’t that the job of the guys asking for your vote? So far, their solution is to “shut up and do what we tell you,” or “the only way to have a voice is to have a seat at the table” . . . which happens to be the roulette table. . . at the Republican casino, where don’t you know it? The house always wins.
The only solution I have is one that will years of pain for all of us. Kill the party. . . the one that is legally barred from fighting voter fraud. . . the one that’s bound and determined to have amnesty over the objections of it’s base. . . the one that is about halfway through the process of selling out to the gay agenda and doesn’t even want to pretend to take a stand on “social issues” anymore? Kill the party that decided that it was a great idea to borrow trillions from the Chinese to pay for a war that will never end? Or decided it was a good idea to have free trade with a Communist nation in the first place, so that now don’t make anything ourselves? (I don’t have a big problem with free trade with free nations, but buying everything from Communists? Am I supposed to be happy about that?) . . . the party that backed the largest increase in entitlements until this Obama guy came along. The list goes on and on, but we’re supposed to forget about when November comes around.
Here’s another solution, but it’s not one for me to have. You guys, the politicians, the ones that are probably going to win on November 6th regardless of what I say? PROVE ME WRONG. Clean up your act and grow a pair. Impeach the criminal in the White House, there have been so many high crimes and misdemeanors I’ve lost count. Take stands and stick to them. When the leftwing media calls you a villain. Play it up, don’t apologize to them. Remove corrupt judges from office. Don’t stab your own base in the back. Really, stop stabbing your base in the back. You can’t shame my vote back. . . you have to earn it. I’m willing to be proved wrong. I really hope it could happen, but I think it’s too late for you; prove me wrong.
Now you’re advising folks to write in a vote. You know that write in’s get tossed in trash right? Of course you do..... Dem Operative.
Vote your Candidate in the Primary and Vote your Party’s Candidate in the General, period.
It isn’t Rocket Science. Well, maybe that’s a bad example considering what’s happened in the past week.
His point was that if you don’t win you don’t have a chance to make any changes.
Why do you preach defeat all the time? Why are you pushing for a cruz/Palin ticket?
You are fighting the battles lost a decade ago instead of looking to the future. Are you a commie plant?
“Lindsey, is that you?”
Yeah, it’s totally him. Sure...
Go ahead and keep believing stupid conspiracy plots if that what you have to do to avoid necessary critiques of bad political strategy.
Rinos are supposed to be the stupid party, bit they are able to formulate such complex plots that we supposedly smarter conservatives are too dense to see it.
We are so perfect, any screw up has to be because of RINO schemes.
Of course. He recolonized his mistakes and did not make excuses. He learned from them. The problem is people who refuse to.
Reagan is the wrong guy to try trolling me on. Best to pick another angle. Because I have shelves filled with his works/speeches and books about him.
Edit RECOGNIZED
Ouch.
So you helped elect Clinton and Obama. Well played.
Okay. Whatever.
You start from scratch after 200 years of molding it will take twice as long to make that biscuit.
Why aren’t you pushing for a cruz/Palin tkt?
Oh, and thanks for visiting my page.
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