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.
Yeah! That worked really well in '12, didn't it! At least some of the RINO's could, I repeat, could, be dragged kicking and screaming to conservative thinking.
That also includes staying at home
Hard to argue that a second term of Obama has done any damage. Forget the EOs and the multiple czars that have no accountability except to him. Forget Lois Lerner and Valerie Jarrett. Forget Eric Holder and whoever replaces him. Forget the new "Ebola Czar" who hasn't been seen since because he's probably locked away penning some documents that will equate to more Left-Wing power. Forget Fast and Furious and Benghazi. Forget the latest and greatest EPA attacks on our Freedoms. Forget the Feds constant QEs designed to prop up a disaster until a Republican gets in charge again.
How about you prove that Romney would have been just as bad.
Translation: “Be just like plantation dwelling Democrats because we will guilt you into abandoning your principles”
What a stupendously great way to identify the Obola/Reid Supporters and Democrat operatives.
If you have the power to put your brand of conservative in the race do it at the primary. After that, support any move to the right no matter how compromised and plot for the next primary. Sour grapes only strengthens our enemies. The dimicrats had to take over the public schools and raise a five generations of communists to enable them to get control.
Except for the fact it’s an outright lie.
Yeah.
Like this strategy worked so well in 2006.
Idiocy.
Voting third party will be a vote for the rats and 0bama
The woods are lovely dark and deep.
OK, I’ll put in here.
Politics is a dynamic flow. The Democrats keep offering more and more goodies from the government to gather votes. As time goes on, they must offer new benefits to maintain voter interest. The last was health care. Open borders is coming. After that, the government will control the food supply.
The republicans cannot stop this tactic, they can only slow it down. Suffice it to say that throughout history politicians have known that benefits-for-votes in popular governments is an unstoppable process. Got that?
So what we have is a government that constantly slides to the left, with the republicans dragging their heels, trying to slow the process. Yes, they are in the flow. It’s the political reality.
OK, voters, here’s your choice: The democrat who will care for your kids with welfare for anyone earning less than $100K per-year, provide pre-school care, offer full care for the homeless, and provide shelters for all immigrants; or the true Republican who will give you nothing.
Under this option the Republican will stand NO CHANCE of winning. That’s why we have rinos. The are pragmatic instruments of politics.
Let me ask you a question: At what point does the epithet “Rino” apply? I offer this posit: all of today’s Republicans are Rinos. They moderate their pro-constitution positions to cater to their local political dynamic. Their being in office is better than a Democrat being in office and thereby accelerating the government’s continual move to the left.
Ethical Purity is a wonderful concept. I would love for our government to focus on the Constitution. I’ve written two books on this. But we have to be realistic. Idealism, no matter what its rationalization, leads to more liberals being in office, resulting in an accelerated skid to the left.
After all the anti-Romney activism kept so many people home, our only choice is how fast we skid to the left.
Great idea. Let the fascists use Lois Lerner types to further entrench their tentacles in government. With the Dems there will be no more dead Democrats voting, no more “mis calibrations” on electronic voting machines, and no more liberal judges to decide against conservatives.
Not to vote...is to vote....for a person that is even worse than the one you passed on.
You are correct.
A vote for anyone else is not a vote for Obama and Reid.
It’s a vote for yourself, a sniveling self-centered act that is all about you. The country can go to hell, but you got to speak your mind.
The American way. The left does it, too.
I like to focus on who I’m voting out.
Lesser of two evils? Absolutely! Every time! I can’t recall being fully aligned with any candidate, ever (after 21 election cycles).
This seems like common sense to me.
For those who throw away their vote, please let me know when the politicians have received the “message you are sending.” I’m not sure what success looks like.
The time to fight for a good Republican is before and during the primaries.
Whether you like any candidate or not, your duty as a voter is to keep the worst person out of office, not to keep yourself “pure.”
Not voting is casting one-half of a vote for the Democrat. That doesn’t keep you “pure.”
I haven’t voted since 2004.
Mean while the boat sinks
While they refuse to pick up the bucket floating by their knee.
Don’t care if I vote for Tillis...he will vote against Zero a helluva lot more than Hagan ever will.
And for those who want to be proven wrong, the GOP DID take principled stands. No pubbie votes for porculii bills, zerocare, and did shut down the flow of money.
Yes they did cave...but they did show a bit of spine..not much and certainly they did not fight to the political death as they should have done. But they are better than the surety of leftist fascist dominion.
Lets not snatch defeat from victory again.
“Reagan said, “We don’t intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals of our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all,” and the traitors he was referring to were the Rhinos of his day who had undermined the Goldwater conservatives during the 1964 campaign. And Reagan was saying: Over my dead body is the Republican Party going to be turned over to those people. We’re only going places if we conservatives run this party, if we take it over and if we are unified.”
Rush Libaugh
Exactly
Intimidation is bad enough, but when did the Black Panthers assault anyone, other than verbally? Some white voters may have been frightened enough to not vote at that location, that is a valid argument. But saying AGAIN means it happened before, and had someone been physically assaulted I'm sure I'd have heard about it. Let's not lie like leftists (war on women, racist Tea Party, starve the poor, etc.) to make our point; it makes us as bad as them!
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