And I’ll tell you the same thing I told all the crap sandwich gobblers back when I refused to vote for McCain:  I’m not a Republican.  If you want me to vote for your candidate, give me a candidate I want to vote for.  If you can’t, well, you made your bed.  Enjoy the nap until the next time.

Amen, Smitty – the worst we’ve ever offered was 100 times better than Obama.

To those who want to “send the GOP a message” by not voting for our nominee, think about what message you are really sending.  Because the message I’m hearing is, “Unless you nominate a candidate who is exactly what I want, I’m not on board, because it’s all about meeeeeeeeeeeeee.  I’m not a reliable ally, and you should waste no time on my concerns because I’ll find some stupid reason to desert you anyway.”

There were some conservatives who “sent the message” last time and took their toys and went home instead of supporting McCain.  How’s that working out for them now?  Is the GOP licking their boots now?  Are they enjoying the Obama Administration?

There are a lot of better ways to send a message than by screwing up the country’s future, possibly beyond repair.  Make a phone call, write a letter, send an email, twit, unlike them on Facebook.

Yeah, right.  After 4.5 years of being visciously told I’m not really a Republican, suddenly I’m going to vote for the GOP candidate, even though they can’t even be bothered to pretend to add any of my planks into their platform?

Good luck with that. 

They lost hard in 2006 and 2008 because they couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to conservatives. THey’ve had 6 years to figure out a way to bring the small government crowd back home, and they’re still playing this tired old card? Please.

The question many of us will have to be asking ourselves is: If Romney or Gingrich get the Nomination, do we want to try and help elect someone who, at the very best, will merely slow down our speed on The Road To Perdition, because Romney doesn’t understand just how bad the situation and Gingrich will do whatever benefits himself?  Do we think we can, through control of both houses of the Congress, reverse the course to collapse we are on?

Or is this the best time to bring the tyrannical boil to a head and let Obama and his Leftist minions own the collapse?  Is it better that the collapse happen now, when it might be easier to rebuild on the debris, or later when we may be so weakened that we cannot mount an effective restoration of our freedoms and liberties.

I keep going back and forth between the two.

Yeah, hypocrite, just like you RINOs got behind the Party candidate in the NJ Senate race. Oh, wait….

“Shut up! because supporting the party nominee is the duty of you Teatard hicks. Your betters are under no such restraints.”

FOAD.

In the end though, I’m not sure the canidates are what really matters — how much faith do y’all have in the American people?

I keep noticing that the American people have participated in their tens of millions in every decision that has brought us to our current parlous state, and keep right on reelecting the representatives they claim to hate.

And when they do rise up and toss out a few scoundrels, both parties and the media unite to excoriate them.  And then we get a heaping helping of same old, same old, and demands that we vote for them because they aren’t Satanic Democrats.

Apparently you really can fool some of the people all of the time.

Unless you nominate a candidate who is exactly what I want, I’m not on board, because it’s all about meeeeeeeeeeeeee

It really bothers you that you just can’t force us to gobble your crap sandwiches, doesn’t it?

See, your real problem is you can’t convince us that it’s not really all about your goals. 

“Exactly what “we” want?”

Do you know how much crap I have to convince myself to swallow in order to vote for Saint Satan Santorum?  Yet I would, because it’s about the future of liberty, and I think there is at least a slender hope that he might do more to advance it than destroy it.  I feel much better about voting for Gingrich because he’s actually advanced the cause of liberty in the real world, something none of the other candidates can point to on their resumes.  But Mittens Romneycare, the GOP socialist?

Yes, socialist.  What else can you call a guy who designed, implemented, and still defends the imposition of socialized medicine and its mandates on millions of people?

That’s the crap sandwich you want me to swallow, so your party (not mine) can preside over the further destruction of American liberties.  In a bipartisan, cooperative manner, of course.

I never understood why you Republicans seem to think it’s important to run candidates who can “attract independents,” but you never consider that quite a few independents are considerably more conservative than you are.  Apparently you don’t want, or need, liberty-minded conservative independents.

How’s that working out for you?

As an independent, I’m laughing in agreement with what you just said!
As a moderate (meaning I’m willing to at least hear people out when they speak reasonably and are willing to listen, and believe that moderation in all things is probably the wisest course) I’m also struck by this as well.

 Collectively the American people are no different than the people of any other country. They vote for the candidate or party they think will pass out the most goodies. Then when the country falls on their face, they vote for who they think will fix things. Sometimes that happens to be a Republican, who many times will proceed to fix things. Then, once things are fixed-somewhat-what do the American people do? They go right back to voting for the candidate or party, far more often than not a Democrat, who they think will pass out some more goodies, again, and who more often than not then proceed to fuck things up. Again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

I’m sick of it. Granted, its not completely their fault, they are for the most part purposely ignorant, and intentionally made and kept ignorant by a social and education system that has brainwashed them into thinking the American system is supposed to be about “equality” and “fairness” and “democracy”. Three fifths of the American people are clueless about what this country and the constitution are really supposed to be about.

So, again, I have absolute zero faith in them. I have not the slightest inkling that they will ever prove me wrong by exercising common sense and logical judgement on any kind of a consistent basis.

Checks and balances. Winning the Senate with a comfortable majority makes a re-elected Obama a zero. If pressed, the military will side with the Constitution. The next Senate will select between 1 and 3 Justices to the Surpreme Court.

Paul lacks the same practical experience Obama lacked going (and by a fair measure still lacks). The people he’d have to bring in will know that they can rob America blind, and Paul won’t know.

Generals like Wesley Clark are going to go whichever way is their interest.

Military isn’t in love with the Democrats, but they don’t exactly have a big crush on Republicans.

My guess is the military won’t do anything that in any way sticks their necks out (they’ve been burnt before).