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.
Then you lied. You voted for a liberal.
Normy is a Kamikaze Konservative.
He would preform Sepuku before actually doing something to win an election.
Now Normy, I don’t go where you work and criticize your lawn mowing....
Just a conservative. One not willing to sell his morals and principles to elect a liberal with an R attached. And get ready Cossak...If the country burns, so be it.
Because a country run by liberals ain’t America. We;ll rebuild that from the ashes you created.
Thats really your best? Really?
Now Normy, why would I waste my best material on you?
I save my best for Psychotic Progtards.
Now get off my thread
You’re acting like a news geek, when after the comments, they come back and attempt to tell everyone what they just heard.
I’ve read the thread and once again, the days of voting for party brand, pushing party over principle is way over for me.
Being lied to, hoodwinked and conned 5,000 times has tendency to piss folks off.
Because a few of us are laughing our asses off via freep and email right now and we don’t want you to stop?
^5
Sorry. Thats a fact. Mitt is a lib and you don’t get to make the rules.
Kamikaze Normy.
With your Gotterdamerung fantasy of an American Apocalypse.
Sad sad psychotic Normy. Hates the country.
Wants to destroy it to save it...
Whatever works for you.
Glad to be of service Normy.
I love these tender moments we share. Makes me warm and fuzzy.
Romney urges Alaskans to “get out and vote often”.
The Alaska Dispatch ^ | November 3, 2014 | Nathaniel Herz
Posted on Monday, November 03, 2014 3:39:56 PM by arbitrary.squid
Sullivan made several campaign appearances over the weekend with Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who’s a favorite of the tea party, then arrived with Romney at 9 a.m. Monday at City Diner, where a large group of Republicans waited, along with a few unsuspecting patrons.
Romney, wearing a khaki overcoat and jeans, urged people to “get out and vote often,” posed for photos with Sullivan and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and, on his way out, snatched a piece of reindeer sausage off one woman’s breakfast plate.
Romney and Sullivan, along with Republican Gov. Sean Parnell, were scheduled to hold a rally in West Anchorage later Monday morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
You’re kidding right .. not voting .. THAT HAS TO BE THE MOST STUPID IDEA GOING.
YOU CAN’T CHANGE THINGS IF YOU SIT ON YOUR BEHIND AND DO NOTHING.
ONCE THIS ELECTION IS OVER .. WE GET TO HOUND THEM DAY AND NIGHT AND FORCE THEM TO DO THEIR JOBS. JUST THINK OF ALL THE FUN WE CAN HAVE ....????
My post was to freeper Terry L Smith not to you. What do I have to prove to you?
You don’t have to prove anything you havent already.
Do you have a point, besides the one on your head?
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