Keep up the good work. I have been reading your articles now for years and have become all the more impressed with you as you have fought for the intelligent Conservatism that is now being killed by many within the GOP. I don’t always agree with you, as is only natural, but I am very happy knowing that you will keep up the fight to take the party back. I voted for Obama in 2008 and this was the FIRST Democratic presidential candidate that I have voted for since I began voting in 1996. I voted for Dole and Bush (in 2000, not 2004) and I believed in the values of Conservatism that have since been squandered and bastardized for the sake of power and winning elections. I don’t believe in my party right or wrong and in fact have never actually been the member of a political party during any of these elections. Hopefully Palin is gone for good and perhaps someone can convince Patreaus that he should run for office when his military career comes to a close. We need him. And we need you, Peggy. Please don’t allow the unthoughtful members of the Right who treat politics like a religion to keep control of the party I once respected and voted for on a regular basis.
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I first voted in 1964. I voted a straight GOP ticket then. I voted a straignt GOP ticket until Bush41’s second term. Something about “no new taxes” and leaving Sadam Hussein in power. That year I didn’t vote for president, but a straight GOP ticket otherwise. I voted for Bush43 for his first term. I didn’t vote for president when Bush43 ran for his second term. I voted a straight Democrat ticked in the 2008 election.
I never thought I’d see the day when a Democrat looked better than any GOP candidate. Now, every Democrat looks better than any GOP candidate. WTF happened to MY party? — The Christians took over is one. The other is that in the face of a declining USA, the Fascists have completely taken over government from the people it is supposed to represent. The Fascists are looting the treasury and accelerating the decline of the US, its economy and its social structure.
All I can do is vote.
That’s funny, I actually did not vote for president in 2004, though I split my vote that year for all the other offices, include local. That day I said to myself, “I will not vote for president if the choices suck.” And did they ever!
Why do people assume that they may only vote for candidates that are expected to have a chance of winning?
Why do people think that voting for the lesser of two evils is voting their conscience?
Vote for president, but vote for a third party candidate. I don’t care which party you vote for, that you need to decide. However, you should vote against the two parties that are offering poor choices.
Not voting is only telling the two parties that you don’t care what they do to you.
Voting for either of the two parties is telling them that you like what they do to you.
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