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| Dwayne | Nov 5 2008, 10:45 AM Post #1 |
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| Dandandat | Nov 5 2008, 05:58 PM Post #2 |
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Time to put something here
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My own anecdotal contribution to this would be to say in my neck of the woods I know a lot of conservatives who did not take the time to vote in this election because their was nothing to prove for them. In 2004 I remember many people saying they would be going to cast their vote for Bush even though the state (NY) would be a lock for Kerry; because they wanted to prove that Bush did have a mandate to lead after the 2000 fiasco. They knew their vote wouldn’t gain him electoral votes, but they wanted to bolster his popular votes. I heard no such things this time around, in fact many of these same people stated they weren't "wasting their time" to support the GOP. It would be interesting to see how that 10% missing vote is distributed over the states. |
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| Dwayne | Nov 5 2008, 07:04 PM Post #3 |
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Yes, many true conservatives (Not the Dixiecrat social conservatives, but the libertarian constitutional conservatives.) just couldn't bring themselves to support McCain. Palin inspired some of the social conservatives and some of the fiscal conservatives, but she never really inspired the 'Don't Tread On Me' type of conservative. Frankly, that's where the democrats are the weakest and most hypocritical, and where I think the republican party can totally redefine what people see as conservative. |
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| RTW | Nov 5 2008, 08:23 PM Post #4 |
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I don't understand this logic. Why not vote for a conservative 3rd party candidate? Wouldn't it be a stronger message if a conservative 3rd party picked up those 7,000,000 votes? |
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| Sgt. Jaggs | Nov 5 2008, 08:54 PM Post #5 |
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How about a Voyager Movie
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Fuzzy Logic maybe? Perhaps not Logic at all, maybe anger, rejection of having to "settle" for the very not conservative McCain. Not to mention his age and getting him and Palin elected would diminish the possibilities of a True conservative ticket in the primaries in 4 years. I felt like a Maverick myself voting for McCains opponent .I delight in returning him the favor. My consternation has been well documented here and I got over it to a point but it resurfaced after the third debate. I believe I said this was like running JFK vs Bob Dole. Bad Jag NO I told you so-ing!!!! Stop it or you are asking for it !!!!!There was even some from others who thought it could be a blowout for McCain. So if there were NOT record turnouts of new numbers of voters then Pissed off Conservatives? I agree with that Fuzzy Logic. Maybe that will galvanize the self righteousness of some evangelicals to get it right next time quicker A few bullets from my perspective: . Pat Robertson rushes to endorse Gulianni as soon as he can, early I thought. . Hoss blames Huckabee for derailing Romney VIA Mormonism propaganda . I question many of those evangelical sentiment I know personally including my Brother who saw a Mormon conspiracy to infiltrate Government, Like the people in 1960 feared JFK would take orders from the Pope. . Hoss said he liked Romney but was secretly buying and stashing Ron Paul gear in his CLOSET!!!!!! Not sure whaere I was going with those points since my kids have interrupted me 25 times!!!!!!! Anyhoooo Rush Limbaugh made an interesting point today. He said Conservatism was not defeated today, Republicans were. In fact where conservatism was clearly defined it was victorious, as Prop 8 in California. <--Swid in Cali between a gay couple?????????? There needs to be a way to undo Judges who Legislate from the bench AND their trumped up rulings. |
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| Dandandat | Nov 5 2008, 11:01 PM Post #6 |
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Time to put something here
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People are apathetic to third parties candidates. Most people don’t even know who they are. |
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| RTW | Nov 5 2008, 11:07 PM Post #7 |
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Agreed. Many are now wishing for nothing but health and long life for all current judges and justices.
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| Dwayne | Nov 5 2008, 11:14 PM Post #8 |
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I blame conservatives in general for trying to have a my way or the highway attitude on issues, but a shades of grey attitude on principles. I guess the best example I can think of is that conservatives have made an issue of the principles of individualism and individual rights, but in practice they support drug usage laws, favoring laws on morality type issues like sodomy or prostitution, and other such laws. |
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Bad Jag NO I told you so-ing!!!! Stop it or you are asking for it
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from others who thought it could be a blowout for McCain.
<--Swid in Cali between a gay couple??????????

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