Posted on 11/03/2014 5:07:16 PM PST by Libloather
Same thing I do in all cases. If the R can hit 80% and not bail on the core issues of conservatism, I vote for them. If they can’t, I write in or vote 3rd party and the cards can fall where they may.
EVERY TIME.
The time for theorizing is long past. The actions of an actual Colorado voter (goldstategop) are being discussed. The vote is TOMORROW.
In the Colorado races, specifically — how would you vote?
They were squids in 2010 also. Not voting isn’t smart.
she didn’t have a house in Louisiana anyways
meet the next Secretary of Energy
What was the high point of conservative participation from which millions fell off?
Maybe in 2016 the GOP will actually run on something.
never mind, never happen
You’re dodging the questions.
In the Colorado races for governor and senator, specifically: as a principled conservative, how would you vote?
D? R? or no vote?
after the repubs run Bush or Christie in 2016 perhaps people here will get serious about making the gop the third party after we replace them with a conservative party.
I’m 67 and I have stopped voting for the lesser of two evils.
People say what about judicial appointments and I ask them why do they expect Mitch to stop any of them.
goldstate..... Next SCOTUS nominees!
I gave you a direct answer. If you cannot understand it, Read it again.
>> I gave you a direct answer.
With all due respect, you did not give me a direct answer.
You gave me a rule-of-thumb. Reading it again, or three more times, or five, would still not answer the question.
These are actual races I’m asking about. Surely you have followed the close senate races in enough detail to know how you’d vote?
And then what? March proudly to the polling station and give your vote to an abject traitor to your party's principles, in order to beat another abject traitor to everything you believe in?
I guess our traitors are better than theirs....or something like that.
Understand - I'm not talking about Republicans who sometimes go wobbly, but who otherwise keep their noses clean. I'm talking about pukes like Romney, McCain, McConnell, Cornyn, Boehner, Alexander, et al.
Those types have practically erased any differences between the Republican brand and the Democrat brand.
No I told you how I vote. Exactly. Take my answer and apply it to any state, any race, any election and it is the same. McCain/Palin was my last nosehold. It was a mistake and I will never do it again. you want my vote? Meet my requirements and you get it. Period. CO/NY/CA/AZ ect.
All that we have to work with at the moment are the candidates on the ballot.
If you chose not to vote you abdicate the choice of who will govern you to those who do.
I did not get the person I wanted for President in 2012 or for the Senate in GA in 2014. Does that mean I stay home? No way in he11. I weigh the choices given and make a judgement.
For the past 40 years I have only voted for one Democrat. That was for a judgeship in 1976 and I had known him and his kids since I was a boy.
I see NOTHING but bad in the election of a Democrat to a position of power at any label. I would appreciate it if you do your little part and keep as many Democrats out of power in CO as possible. Especially, the ones who can vote on my taxes. I will return the favor here in GA.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Would you support Ted Cruz as Majority Leader?
Use your brain to figure out where this is going.
The GOPe has shown they will do anything and everything to block Conservatives including Cruz.
Cornyn and McConnel stole the Mississippi primary. They put out adds and robo-calls smearing TEA Party as racist.
Present the bastards to me covered in tar and feathers. Then we’ll talk.
I voted nearly straight “R.” I won’t support a traitor.
If the race was close, you bet I would. If it makes the difference in curbing the excesses in the executive branch by Obama, no question about it. You're not only voting for an individual. You're voting for the team - the team that is going to have power and control over the direction the country heads.
Who has ever gotten 100% of anything that you wanted in life? Yet many insist that they must have 100% or they won't vote for a particular candidate. I've never understood that and I doubt I ever will.
When that so-called Republican is running for president there might be justification for not voting, but in a midterm like this with so many other things in the mix, I believe we must vote. We stand a tiny chance of regaining the Senate and holding the House. That is so critical at this point it should not even be a consideration for not voting. It is our very LAST chance to save America. A GOP Senate would give us another chance. We have gained a lot of ground because of the Tea Parties who have never stopped working from the bottom up. We can put enough pressure on a GOP Senate to pull them back from disasters, where we have no chance of influencing the Marxists. We won't stop working even if we only get a few more Senators. If we don't, by 2016 the country will be so far gone it will be futile to vote.
Bob, for crying out loud. Listen to yourself. "If you don't vote for Republicans you're supporting it" is the most ridiculous lot of poppycock on the thread.
You are imagining all kinds of things regarding both votes and declined ballots. The intent of the vote is in your head. The ACTION goes one way -- to the candidate whose name you marked on the ballot.
A vote for a liberal Republican accomplishes ONE thing, and ONE THING only: validation of the liberal Republican. Intent doesn't matter squat.
You back it up. You name one person on this website that demands 100%. I am considered the arch purist by many Romneybots and I’ll go for 80 all day long.
Put up/Shut up.
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