Halloween is Over
Written by Mike on November 7th, 2006Despite this people are still running around trying to scare me. If I don’t vote GOP then Nancy Pelosi will become Speak of the House, the Cubbies will win it all and the world will end!
I would encourage everyone to vote tomorrow. Vote for the Republicans, vote for the Democrats, vote for the Libertarians, or vote for some good local independents. Whatever you do though, don’t vote out of fear. Don’t vote for a RINO you hate because you are afraid of the Democrats taking control and ruining this country. The tactics being used by the GOP and their proxies to GOTV this election cycle are bordering on obscene. Vote out of love for your country, not fear of liberals.
If I have to be coerced with terror tactics to go to the polls and vote for the GOP, a party that fights tooth and nail against everything I believe in, then I don’t have much of a choice do I? I sincerely hope what the GOP is saying about this election is not true, that if you care about this country and its future then you must vote Republican. If it is then we are living in a tyranny. If I cannot vote out of office Republicans that are corrupt and abuse the Constitution because it means that an even worse sort of politician could take control then what the hell does that say about GOP management of this nation for the last six years?
Let the Republicans lose and watch what happens . . . the world will keep turning. The sun will come up on Wednesday. The real question is what will the Republicans do to get their base back? Will they actually run conservative candidates? We’ll see I guess. If all of the horrible things that could happen do happen under Democratic leadership then it just may rouse the American people from their slumber. And that alone would be worth a thousand GOP victories at the polls.
Seriously, the next person who walks up to me and tells me to vote Republican because I don’t really have another choice is going to get unloaded on.
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Luckily I get to vote for a good conservative Republican, Representative Tom Price (GA-6). In the statewide races, I’m voting for all the Republican nominees (because they’re all solid and simply the better choice than their liberal counterparts) save for one: Attorney General. I’m voting for Democrat Thurbert Baker because his track record has been pretty good, it’s not a very partisan office, and his Republican opponent has no trial experience. What a joke that the Republicans couldn’t get a candidate with trial experience.
Good thing I don’t have to vote for Senator this election, because I’ve had it with Isakson and am not all too happy with Chambliss either. At least I get to vote for a solid Representative.
My thoughts? I don’t know which I’d prefer: us taking the House with a smaller majority and perhaps a perception in Washington of, “whoa, that was close, let’s get our act together” (a very unlikely response, which is the problem) and the avoiding of Speaker Pelosi being third in line to the Presidency and the chance of success in Iraq and the continuation of pro-economic growth legislation OR us losing the House, resulting in subpoenas and impeachment hearings for the next two years, loss of funding in Iraq, loss of tax cuts, BUT with gridlocked government. Part of me wants us to hold both chambers simply because of the mission in Iraq and to extend the tax cuts and continue pro-free trade legislation, and part of me almost hopes for a Democratically controlled House that would result in a gridlocked government, which would stifle the out-of-control spending and growth in government that the past 6 years have given us.
I guess now all I can do is vote and see what happens. What are everyone else’s thoughts? Anybody have a more firm opinion one way or the other besides Mike (since I’m on the fence on this one) on losing one or both chambers of Congress?? (though I expect us to hold on to the Senate)
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If we must lose a chamber, then let it be the House. The Senate may be needed to confirm judges and ratify treaties. Of course the irony in that is that the Senate has been the bane of conservatives, not the House.
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As White Goodman would say… touche!
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Let’s cut off the nose to spite the face, eh fellas? Good to see somethings never change.
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Ah yes, the ole nose and face argument. Exactly how do I reduce the size of government if I don’t vote out of office those who wish to increase it?
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Fights tooth and nail against everything you believe in? You don’t believe in national security, then?
Tool.
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All I’m saying…you don’t need a Democrat takeover to wake people from the slumber you talk about. We need to put the band back together, we got to this point with principled leaders, we can find them again. To go back into cliche-ville, to burn the village to save the village…that simply won’t cut it.
Maybe its because we are the youth of the party, we can read books and form our opinions of the way it should be, but we weren’t around when the Dems did have control, we weren’t gurus when we were 12. If you want to save the gop, work within the party, not against it. And Langley, please feel free to unload, I am interested in hearing a response.
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I am working within the party - today I voted to send my Republican Congressman, Tom Price, back to Congress because he has been consistent in his principles. He won the “Defender of Economic Freedom” Award from the Club for Growth, he consistently voted with Flake to strip pork out of bills, he supported the RSC’s budget proposal, “Contract With America: Renewed,” and he opposed the “comprehensive” amnesty free-for-all immigration bill. He voted for CAFTA, and for other free-trade agreements.
I voted in a manner consistent with my principles. Now, had my representative been someone like Tom DeLay, I’d have major issues. If I had to vote for someone like Arlen Specter to “save the Senate from the wrath of the Democrats,” I’d have issues. If Johnny Isakson were up for re-election today, the guy who acts like a conservative yet is a fan of pork-barrel spending and a card-carrying member of the Mainstreet Partnership, I’d vote against him - certainly not for a liberal opponent, but either for a Libertarian candidate or I’d write in John Galt.
It’s not about burning the village to save it - it’s about not sacrificing your principles to save a crumbling village. I voted Republican, but only because my guy is a true conservative. I didn’t vote against him just to “teach Republicans a lesson,” and I didn’t vote for him just because there’s an R next to his name. This is what working within the party is all about. It’s not about voting for anyone with an R besides their name. If John Konop had been successful in his primary challenge to Tom Price, I wouldn’t vote for him, Republican or not - because he expressed pure ignorance in blasting free trade legislation for “shipping jobs overseas” when we have historically low unemployment.
I will not vote for someone who is not consistent with my principles. And that’s all there is to it.
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ringwingprof said:
“You don’t believe in national security, then?”
Of course I do! That’s why I am so pissed at the GOP, they won’t secure the borders, reform the CIA, fight the war in Iraq or Afghanistan with the required fierceness, invade Syria and Iran, confront North Korea in any real sense, counteract Chinese espiange, or take the fight to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in their new home of Waziristan.
It is because I am such a hawk that I am angry with the GOP, they are fighting this war with one hand tied around their balls.
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Hey I am all in favor of sending the right kind of republicans back to office, but far too many are abusing the trust and support of their base. I can’t in good faith reward that with my vote.