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.
Let's hope that by 2016, Kozak, Kaslin, and other numbed-with-fear "conservatives" who, in comatose panic, currently advise voting for functional Democrats in Republican jerseys, will join the rest of us and WAKE THE HELL UP.
Facts Normy, facts. Not your fantasy world...
“Updated 11:51 p.m. | House Republicans voted to prohibit President Barack Obama from granting what they consider to be an unconstitutional amnesty to illegal immigrants Friday.
The bill would effectively end Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” brought to the United States illegally by their parents to get work permits and avoid deportation. And it would prohibit the president from expanding the program, as he has been reportedly considering doing for as many as five million additional immigrants.
The 216-192 vote included four Democrats voting “yes” — Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, John Barrow of Georgia, and Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia.”
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/republicans-vote-to-end-daca/?dcz=
I don’t. In the primaries I support conservatives.
But not being a baby, if I don’t get my way, I don’t pout and sit home when the general rolls around. Sometimes it’s REALLY hard. I had to force myself to pull the lever for McCain in 2008.
I’m glad I did because I KNOW I didn’t help elect Dear Leader.
Those of you who sat home in 2012 because you had a hissy over Romney helped return Dear Leader to the White House. Then you moan and bitch about the damage he’s doing.
“I don’t. In the primaries I support conservatives.”
And you support libs in the General ‘no matter what’ as long as they have an R attached. Libs are libs. You vote for them. Not me.
Truth. Deal with it ... BTW, Cool story Bro. ;)
I support the MOST CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE ELECTABLE. Buckley Rule.
Reality. A concept you are unfamiliar with.
That's made possible by those who continually support those who are anything but conservative and in fact those who refuse to even demand simple common sense polices such as demands for dramatic reductions in the size and scope of controlling government, secured borders etc.
Party over principle, over and over. Compromise over conservatism.
It's why we are trillions in debt, have an insider government which continues to grow, the dollar declines, borders are a lawless free for all, citizenship made pointless and on and on and on. They get rich, we eat s**t.
No you don’t. Truth. Deal with it. you support Rs attached to anyone. If Hillary ran Repub, you’d probably vote for her. You voted for Romney right? You defended him? There ya go. She is more conservative than he is.
You want people to reelect mithchand Jon Bon. you want people to elect Cochran. Hillary is no different and probably less lib than they are.
Do it.
Buckley’s long dead.
But the truth of what he said lives on...
The choice was, Romney or Obama. Thats what it came down to on election night. Would I have preferred another choice? Yeah. Didn’t exist in the real world. If you think we are better off with Obama, you are a stone cold idiot.
If you think Hillary is more conservative then Romney, you are delusional.
I suggest either Haldol, or Geodon. It will do wonders for your delusions.
Chicken
No, there were several other options on every ballot in America. You lie. There were other options and you chose a liberal then argued about it while others admitted they had made a mistake.
Hillary has more conservatism than Romney on her record including being in office opposing Gay marriage. That is a fact. Mitt was supportive of gay everything. Thats a fact. Jim had Mitt’s record posted on FR for years. That’s a fact. Mitt is more liberal than Clinton. that too is a fact his record bears out.
Bill Clinton was EASILY more conservative as president than Mitt as Gov. So your logic says vote for Bill OR Hillary over Mitt.
Do it.
Dear kas,
Good for you!!
Since the ‘Katrina Debacle’, I’ve changed to Libertarian, just to make things difficult for all the contenders, considering no one but me knows the direction I choose.
(Here’s a hint: “The nation faltered, when in the glorious wisdom of Congress, to repeal the anti-Communist laws that were ‘law of the land’.)
Keep doing what you need to to depress the republican vote and maybe Harry Reid will get you a job. I mean a real job where you don’t rely on tips.
“No, there were several other options on every ballot in America. You lie. There were other options and you chose a liberal then argued about it while others admitted they had made a mistake.”
LOL. Obama opposed gay marriage on the record, did you vote for him?
Bill Clinton was more conservative as president because he had to deal with a REPUBLICAN MAJORITY, and he governed by sticking his finger in the wind ( when it wasn’t in Monica) and seeing which way the wind blew.
Normy you are truly an idiot. You seriously advocate voting for a third party candidate with zero chance of winning to, what prove your ideological purity? The Rats love people like you. Thats why they prop up phoney Libertarian candidates to siphon off idiots like you.
Owwchh!!! That kinda truth hurts, Norm! Well posted!!!
I advocate nothing but the 80% rule. You vote ‘most conservative’. Hillary is most conservative vs. Mitt. You stick to your guns now...ya’hear?
It’s simply the truth. He hates that.
wait till I ask him to post anything In Mitt’s record more conservative than Hillary has in hers. Wanna bet his head explodes in a fit of righteous sycophancy?
Normy only in deluded mind is Hillary more conservative then Mitt.
Here’s a clue. She’s a Clinton. She lies about everything.
“Obama has a lifetime ADA average of 90 percent. Other senators - such as Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and others - have higher lifetime ADA ratings. Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, was ranked as the most liberal senator by the National Journal in 2003.”
Facts Normy. Facts. You should try a little reality.
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