tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782798.post116133066066702771..comments2016-04-22T10:45:26.566-06:00Comments on Cerebral Misfire--The Blogosphere's Mental Assault and Battery: The Lesser Of Two Evils Part DeuxKyle The Opinionatedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197262804551582678noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782798.post-1161363239567955662006-10-20T10:53:00.000-06:002006-10-20T10:53:00.000-06:00So what you're going to actively participate in is...So what you're going to actively participate in is allowing a socialistic party to get in power, raise your taxes, strip your gun rights, ruin your national security, just to make a point? You're going to allow the party that stands against every conservative value the majority of Americans have to take power, and worsen the situation? <BR/><BR/>The Republicans did improve things. Granted, they fell down on the job a bit, but it was miles of progress after the setbacks of the Clintonistas. Again, simply for what the courts could become under the Democrats, I'm not going to risk it. We KNOW what they will appoint to the bench, and what they will block if they have the votes. Those repercussions will go on for potentially 30 years or more after this election is nothing but a memory. Sorry, I'm not risking that. That's what your protest vote will get you. <BR/><BR/>Call it fear if you will, but we know what the demoncrats will do if they get in power. It's not a specter, it's a proven, hard-core fact. You know this. <BR/><BR/>You have a point, and a valid one. But I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot on the courts just to make my grand protest. I've listened to both sides of the argument at this point, and I've decided a protest vote is akin to teenage rebellion: Grand, angry, seemingly noble, but ultimately stupid and self-destructive. <BR/><BR/>You've made a point, all right. One that you'll live to regret if the dems win.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782798.post-1161351756770559302006-10-20T07:42:00.000-06:002006-10-20T07:42:00.000-06:00That sounds like fear tactics to me. "If you don't...That sounds like fear tactics to me. "If you don't vote for us, something really bad will happen."<BR/><BR/>Well maybe so. Bad stuff happens all the time, originating from both parties. But I'm simply not going to reward the behavior I've seen from our politicians. The Republicans need a wakeup call, and frankly the only way they're going to get it is by seeing their votes erode. Angry letters won't do it. Your vote is your only currency. (Okay, currency is your currency too. I'm sure a big donation would get someone's attention, but neither of us have *that* kind of money.)<BR/><BR/>The Republicans are running scared because they know they've been fiddling while Rome burned, so now they're scrabbling around to protect their power. It's that simple. So now they raise the specter of the boogy man so we'll keep them in power? To heck with that, and to heck with them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com