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Vote Him In, or Republicans Stay Home
Mrs. iWe is beyond furious. She is downright incandescent. She will not vote in November unless the Republicans show spine and approve Kavanaugh. She wants the nomination rammed down the throats of the evil people who are inventing slanders to destroy good people.
She cannot be the only one who feels this way. If the Republicans do not show backbone on this pivotal issue, the base will not vote in the midterms.
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They’ve got a lot of strings to their bow. Here’s another, courtesy of California’s DMV, whose voter regrstration apparatus has some problems:
Sure. You bet.
Rod Dreher today:
One of his commenters, a “white male progressive” lawyer for a progressive union:
Absolutely.
So, I can vote for Republicans, and not get the policies I support passed, or I can stay home, and not get the policies I support passed.
At least in the second case I save a few bucks worth of gas.
No, if you stay home you can save fuel AND get lots of legislation you despise. A Democrat majority is not simply going to table bills you’d like. They’re going to ram through all kinds of pernicious laws. Preventing that is worth going to the polls for.
Ontheleftcoast (View Comment):
Embrace the healing power of “and.” Vote while drunk
Come to think of it, it’s the American thing to do, especially when someone else is buying:
I draw precisely the opposite lesson from recent events. I will vote for any Republican against any Democrat no matter how incompetent, vile, or awful I think they may be. I now wish Moore won in Alabama though he meets all three of my criteria in the prior sentence.
What’s the definition of showing backbone? Let’s say 47 Republicans vote to confirm with 4 voting to reject — as may happen. That would be a reason not to vote for those four senators — nothing more.
It’s like saying since Benedict Arnold betrayed the American Revolution, patriots should have abandoned the idea of independence.
The British would have been good with that.
Maybe. I don’t think Trump will be shy with the Veto pen.
Bill Jacobson’s take from Legal Insurrection. Unfortunately, it sounds about right. RTWT:
Or, once again, the Democrats are out for blood with live blades and the Republicans are playing equestrian pandybat. (According to the ancient lore of the West Kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism,
At a funeral and can’t read all the comments now.
If you don’t vote Republican then what else can happen but handing control back to the Democrats. How on earth could that possibly be the moral and right thing to do? They are completely insane. I’m livid and I am definitely going to vote and vote Republican.
Pretty much what I expected. Just once I’d like to see the GOP in hearings like this without totally screwing it up. Trump has every reason to be livid with them. He picked a wonderful candidate for SCOTUS and they totally beclownded themselves. Again.
I agree – and it’s a sad day for many – including Ford. If Judge Kavanaugh has not been honest, it’s curtains for him. There are holes and questions but clearly something terrible happened to her. Let’s wait and see.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times…
I am disappointed that the lady prosecutor didn’t bring up the fact that were two guys last night who told the committee they think they are the one who did this to Mrs. Ford – not Kavanaugh.
Not a good enough excuse. Republicans might not get the policies you support passed, but Democrats will get policies you abhor passed . . .
FIFY.
Hehe . . . thanks!
Who would admit that? Was it fake news?
As the Democrats will be if Republican voters stay home in November.
At this particular moment I’ll vote for Lindsey Graham’s party any day, no matter what Murkowski, Collins, and Flake may do.
But absolutely they should fight this with everything they have. This nomination should not be pulled without a fight. Make them vote.
Maybe the three stooges should be primaried.
You can vote for the party that uses logic and rule of law or else you can vote for the party of HER:
Feinstein vs. Kavanaugh, in a few short minutes
https://youtu.be/XhwIelUSV4Y
It was on several outlets this morning. The committee got such a claim.
Collins isn’t up this year, Flake’s retiring, and Murkowski has been primaried before. Heitkamp, Manchin, Donnelly, Baldwin — focus on the people who are actually running for something.
Lindsey Graham has said he didn’t find those credible, and given his tone on this I’d trust him. Unless there’s proof that they moved in the right social circles and are willing to put their names on it, it’s probably a fruitless line of questioning. She won’t admit it.
I have friends that do not follow politics and do not vote because it is pointless. From their point of view the elites will do whatever they want and no matter which ones get their way us plebs get the shaft. I have come to believe there may be truth and wisdom in their point of view.
There sure is if you live in California.
I think there may be no matter where you live. From what I can tell the power that be will do what they want to line their pockets with citizens cash. Democrat / Republican are just different groups of thieves stealing from us.
Well, using California as an example, the differences between California under Republican Governor Pete Wilson (or even semi-Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), and California under the current Jerry Brown/Democratic Politburo regime include: violent felons being released from prisons by the thousands, streets overrun with homeless mentally ill drug addicts, industry fleeing the state, middle class people fleeing the state, illegal aliens being welcomed into the state by the millions, much higher taxes, urban “planners” devoted to driving people out of their cars by creating intolerable traffic jams, boondoggles like the 10 billion dollar “bullet train to nowhere,” among many others. Maybe you can’t tell the difference between the formerly Golden State and the current misbegotten hybrid of Tijuana and Venezuela, but I can. Which is why I fled California in 2014.
On the federal level, maybe you can’t tell the difference between a Supreme Court comprised of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s and one comprised of Brett Kavanaugh’s, but I can.
It all sounds so fashionably cynical to just say “they’re all a bunch of crooks and there’s no difference between the parties.” If you really believe that, maybe you should try living in California. The weather is great, and if you can’t tell the difference between the communist apocalypse currently taking place and the great state California used to be when it had Governors like Ronald Reagan, you’d probably like it there.