tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post4829023646633385625..comments2023-09-06T03:58:31.493-04:00Comments on At The Point Of A Gun: Christine O’Donnell Wins The Primary DelawareDave Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13779153708960447630noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-7592171766398900452010-09-20T00:09:24.231-04:002010-09-20T00:09:24.231-04:00Democrat Light = Moderate Republican (for the mos...Democrat Light = Moderate Republican (for the most part in the Mike Castle/Lindsey Graham mode) <br /><br />I wouldn't be sitting out completely.. Just skipping that part of the ballot. <br /><br />Primaries are where the action is, as evidence of what happened in Delaware last Tuesday. <br /><br />Anymore, I think if I vote for the Lesser Of Two Evils (LOTE) I'm wasting my vote. My most valuable tool I have in helping to shape the nation. Next time I vote, it will be for someone who deserves it. I want to vote <i>for</i> someone.. Not merely to keep someone else out of office.Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13779153708960447630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-85182037112174230922010-09-20T00:01:59.435-04:002010-09-20T00:01:59.435-04:00he problem with "sitting it out" or &quo...he problem with "sitting it out" or "voting third party" is that the "R" might get in.<br /><br />But I do have some sympathy.<br /><br />The worst about "sitting out" is that there are local issues and offices that deserve attention even if the headliners reek.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-56902964530672189892010-09-19T23:50:36.155-04:002010-09-19T23:50:36.155-04:00Boiling Frog metaphor, totally agree on that.
An...Boiling Frog metaphor, totally agree on that. <br /><br />And I have to agree as well with your other point that if I have only a Democrat and Democrat Light to choose from, I'm voting third party or sitting it out because there really isn't a choice.. Only brands.Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13779153708960447630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-6682108797593261172010-09-19T23:46:22.801-04:002010-09-19T23:46:22.801-04:00I think I was un-clear.
There was a change of vie...I think I was un-clear.<br /><br />There was a change of viewpoint in what I said.<br /><br />I now think two things:<br /><br />1. The rate of change under B. Hussein may have scared us into saving what we can still save, while the continuing slow rot under McCain might not have startled us enough to do that.<br /><br />(See Frog, boiling of)<br /><br />2. I have come to the place where I am sick unto death of hearing "Well, you Republicans where in power, why didn't you do all these things you say we should do? (Thank you, Newt Gingrich.)<br /><br />I now thing that if we are going to have democrat-progressive legislation foist on us, I want the names to end in (D-something).<br /><br />Let me clarify that for the slow-learners like the turncoat Karl Rove:<br /><br />If I am offered only RINOs and DIABLOs and progressives by the R's, I'll voter for the D,s.<br /><br />So, Karl, baby, you are going to have to fly your true colors or be out of a job.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-91815042005055806082010-09-19T23:02:33.557-04:002010-09-19T23:02:33.557-04:00@Larry.. I wouldn't say that.. I think McCain ...@Larry.. I wouldn't say that.. I think McCain would have done many of the same things BHO have done.. Only on a much smaller and slower scale.. <br /><br />@Speak.. Party unity is a one way street.. A moderate/RINO is nominated it's conservatives being told to "GET IN AND SHUT UP"..<br />Now that the moderates/RINOs are being voted out.. it's all about them.. Arlen Spector, Murky Lisa.. Where are the calls for party unity behind the conservative candidates (thinking of mostly Delaware here.)Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13779153708960447630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-24537438281233976752010-09-16T11:27:44.341-04:002010-09-16T11:27:44.341-04:00And you might say (as I used to)that McCain would ...And you might say (as I used to)that McCain would have done less damage.<br /><br />I now believe that if we are able to restore America now, it might well be because the experience of seeing just how bad it can get awakened us in time.<br /><br />Let us hope that the purgative did not kill us.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-44321608567265415042010-09-16T11:21:46.213-04:002010-09-16T11:21:46.213-04:00Well, one thing it did was teach me, at long last ...Well, one thing it did was teach me, at long last to carefully think through the implications of things like "perfect is the enemy of good" and especially the notion that voting for the progressive with the right label is somehow better that voting for the progressive with the wrong label.<br /><br />I now know (after listening to "well you Republicans were in control, why didn't you...? too many times) that if we are going to have a progressive, let us vote for the one with "(D-...." after their name.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-87614609190986987772010-09-16T11:06:06.739-04:002010-09-16T11:06:06.739-04:00All this talk of "electable" candidates ...All this talk of "electable" candidates makes me want to punch someone in the nose.<br /><br />If I recall correctly, that's how we got stuck with John McCain in '08. "He's electable!" "He's the only one who can win the general!"<br /><br />That didn't work out so well, GOP establishment.<br /><br />So, STFU and let *us* decide who's electable and who't not.janahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13572309711791086228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899195780406085624.post-36396131377109986102010-09-15T11:31:25.436-04:002010-09-15T11:31:25.436-04:00I can't think of anything with an "N"...I can't think of anything with an "N" and an "R" in its name that is even worth the postage to tell them to bugger off (borrowed from the Brits because it doesn't trip alarms like the related Americanism would...and is probably more accurate, now that I think if it). If they send a business reply envelope, I send them back their crap back, carefully marked NO MORE DIABLOs in every place.<br /><br />Send your support AND your money to the candidates who you think will represent you.<br /><br />Just as in the cases of tax-paid-for stuff, the IS NO reason to9 send money to the fat cats in Washington so they can dribble a pittance out to the favored grovelers.<br /><br />Send it to the candidates. Even 8 cents is important.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.com