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.
The party moves where its voters direct them. Vote against the Democrats and be active. Stop helping the liberals by holding on to your vote.
I lived in Colorado for a long time. There’s a great conservative movement that needs good people. Get involved and stay involved. I’m in California now and I’m VERY involved in a harder state.
I would likely vote Libertarian. You wouldn’t approve.
You’re probably correct. Maybe we’re the ones left behind—the new party is already in place. They should at least change their platform to reflect their popular modern views.
next up you help elect Hillary. My what a hero of conservatism you are.
When you’re in a fight you engage the enemy to defeat them.
I think you’ve mis-identified the enemy. Or, you’re fragging.
You are correct. I know what got him elected.
America wanted a leader, not a brother-in-law.
He lead us with many things that today would be severely attacked.
Nonetheless, America wants a leader.
As a nation we are capable of accepting many hardships to create a common good. We have lost that and Obama was never capable of providing it.
The premise of this thread is wrong and those that support it are projecting their own fallacy of understanding how to steer the nation in the correct course of FReedom.
RR
Ping your post! Some thoghts to keep in mind...
When you do not vote, you help create an INCUMBENT democrat.
Incumbents win re-elections in overwhelming numbers.
It is far harder to dislodge an incumbent democrat compared to defeating a RINO in next primary.
A RINO can be persuaded to vote conservative at least on some issues. Democrats of today will vote liberal every time.
Well sit on your ass again and help elect Hillary. WARRIOR!!!!!!
New tagline ...
Truth. Deal with it.
And I consider this a Freudian slip.
You think you and the rest of the "pure-blood" conservatives are the only one's who really care - the only ones who have a viable solution - the only REAL conservatives? No - your viewpoint is one searching for a political nirvana. Here is a newsflash: this side of Heaven - given the sinful nature of man - you won't find it.
Politics/Governing is - in the end - about raw numbers. Consider those districts where there actually are true conservatives: by themselves they have very little power, and without being part of a majority party, they have virtually NO power to enact change.
Your all-or-nothing strategy leaves the true conservatives with no leverage - NOTHING with which to hold over the rino leadership.
Only as part of the majority party can conservatives enact real change - either by cajoling, shaming or even convincing(gasp!) - the leadership to act wisely.
Your non-vote IS a vote - for the status quo. You can play word games to convince yourselves otherwise, but the numbers don't lie - and you leave the conservatives as part of the minority, with the power to do nothing but grouse and complain.
I’m the smartest man in any room I walk into.
I am Awesome.
Cruz/Palin ticket is a dream ticket.
Will it be the most winning ticket in 2016?
Only time will tell.
There will be polls.
There will be plenty of primaries.
At the end of day I will support the ticket which has the best chance of winning in general election. I can support that ticket over Hillary/whoever any time of the day.
Coming from a guy pushing liberals? When did you ever meet the truth? And did it burn you like fire?
Thanks Joe Biden. Don’t forget to pay the Indian at the counter for the Big Gulp.
Yup! Would they only find the guts.
I can name plenty of people in the GOP who are trying to do the right thing. I can’t think of a single RAT in that category. If Reid retains control, we’ll only get more liberal judges.
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