Dismiss Notice
Thanks for being a member of our community. Please donate toward site expenses if you can.

Conservative columnist: I want Democrats to take over Congress

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by AtsamattaU, Jul 5, 2018.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
Page 1 of 6
  1. AtsamattaU

    AtsamattaU Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2012
    Messages:
    5,123
    Likes Received:
    1,569
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Well, yeah. Anyone in his right mind wants a sea change from the party that’s sacrificed itself on the altar of Trumpism. I voted third party last election because I have a conscience, but most of my family and friends will be voting straight Democrat for the foreseeable <<MOD EDIT - Rule 2 - Removed Group Insult>> Lee S

    Hope you all thought it was worth it. You’ve probably lost an entire generation of voters because of this foolish gamble.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/news/39...umnist-i-want-democrats-to-take-over-congress
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Jul 10, 2018
    AtsamattaU, Jul 5, 2018
    #1
    TomFitz, Ericb760, ThorInc and 1 other person like this.
  2. Moonglow

    Moonglow Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Nov 19, 2013
    Messages:
    20,754
    Likes Received:
    8,047
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    I didn't vote, it was too painfull.
     
    Moonglow, Jul 5, 2018
    #2
    AtsamattaU likes this.
  3. Grokmaster

    Grokmaster Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Aug 9, 2008
    Messages:
    55,099
    Likes Received:
    13,310
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Yeah...he's a "conservative".


    no-rinos.png
     
    Grokmaster, Jul 5, 2018
    #3
    ButterBalls, guavaball, Thirty6BelowZero and 8 others like this.
  4. AtsamattaU

    AtsamattaU Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2012
    Messages:
    5,123
    Likes Received:
    1,569
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Also, please don’t feed the trolls.
     
    AtsamattaU, Jul 5, 2018
    #4
    penner, TomFitz and ThorInc like this.
  5. GoogleMurrayBookchin

    GoogleMurrayBookchin Banned

    Joined:
    Aug 2, 2017
    Messages:
    6,654
    Likes Received:
    2,239
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I don't care about the opinions of conservatives and I don't want the democrats to pander to them. There's a handful of conservatives that would vote for a dem under any circumstance. Compromising is accepting defeat.
     
    GoogleMurrayBookchin, Jul 5, 2018
    #5
    Ddyad likes this.
  6. Moonglow

    Moonglow Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Nov 19, 2013
    Messages:
    20,754
    Likes Received:
    8,047
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Compromise is the art of politics..
     
    Moonglow, Jul 5, 2018
    #6
    penner, TomFitz, gamewell45 and 1 other person like this.
  7. AtsamattaU

    AtsamattaU Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 3, 2012
    Messages:
    5,123
    Likes Received:
    1,569
    Trophy Points:
    113
    It was until that ridiculous “tea party” movement. Now being an ignorant blowhard is the art of politics.
     
    Last edited: Jul 5, 2018
    AtsamattaU, Jul 5, 2018
    #7
    penner, gamewell45 and ThorInc like this.
  8. Spooky

    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Nov 29, 2013
    Messages:
    31,814
    Likes Received:
    13,377
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Guess you all shouldn't waste your votes next time.

    Elections have consequences.
     
    Spooky, Jul 5, 2018
    #8
    Merwen, Ddyad, Russ103 and 3 others like this.
  9. nra37922

    nra37922 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Nov 27, 2013
    Messages:
    13,118
    Likes Received:
    8,506
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Look no further than below for an ignorant blowhard
    upload_2018-7-5_21-38-28.png
     
    nra37922, Jul 5, 2018
    #9
    ButterBalls, Thirty6BelowZero, Merwen and 3 others like this.
  10. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jun 19, 2013
    Messages:
    93,457
    Likes Received:
    14,675
    Trophy Points:
    113
    so you're not a True Conservative unless you are a Trump minion?

    wow.
     
    Ronstar, Jul 5, 2018
    #10
  11. Seth Bullock

    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Dec 26, 2015
    Messages:
    13,664
    Likes Received:
    11,965
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    What is a true conservative, Ron?

    I don't mind telling you, I was pretty bored with (and that's putting it mildly) so-called "conservatives" who sold us down the river to global interests and never-ending wars. So I voted for Trump. Yeah, he's got his faults and warts, but I didn't want another lame, Jeb Bush-type, cookie cutter, globalist, establishment Republican straight out of the Beltway of Permanent Washington, D.C.

    Did you? (No, you wanted ... ugh! ... Hillary)

    Anyways, what is a true conservative? ... from your perspective.

    Seth
     
    Seth Bullock, Jul 5, 2018
    #11
    Thirty6BelowZero, Merwen, headhawg7 and 5 others like this.
  12. MolonLabe2009

    MolonLabe2009 Banned

    Joined:
    Dec 10, 2009
    Messages:
    33,092
    Likes Received:
    15,284
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Max who?

    Seriously. I never heard of this guy.
     
    MolonLabe2009, Jul 5, 2018
    #12
    Thirty6BelowZero and AmericanNationalist like this.
  13. 22catch

    22catch Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Sep 21, 2016
    Messages:
    3,899
    Likes Received:
    2,209
    Trophy Points:
    113
    As if we didn't have enough thin TDS threads for leftists to rant in? I mean seriously.. A fkn columnist is who the Hill did their story on and we all need to know what he thinks? Thread is just an excuse flat out for the OP creator to go on a TDS rant then when people respond with the same level of silliness.. Tells us to not feed trolls

    Ffs. Get it together ppl
     
    22catch, Jul 5, 2018
    #13
    Thirty6BelowZero, Merwen, Russ103 and 2 others like this.
  14. Hoosier8

    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2012
    Messages:
    107,541
    Likes Received:
    34,488
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Only republican to actually make government smaller, actually gave the middle class tax cuts, actually reduced onerous regulations.

    The only idiots are the ones that deny this.
     
    Last edited: Jul 5, 2018
    Hoosier8, Jul 5, 2018
    #14
    Thirty6BelowZero, Merwen, Russ103 and 6 others like this.
  15. bigfella

    bigfella Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 15, 2016
    Messages:
    7,548
    Likes Received:
    8,742
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Tens of millions of Republican voters were prepared to compromise last election & vote for a candidate who was a long way from their ideal. As a result they get two SCOTUS appointments (at least) and hundreds of appointments to lower courts - actions that will have consequences for a generation or more.

    All those who opposed Trump but were unprepared to compromise by voting Clinton achieved nothing. They suffered a defeat just as surely as all the compromisers.

    Compromising to achieve something greater is what adults do. No candidate exists who can please every anti-Trump voter, so the only way to remove him is compromise.
     
    bigfella, Jul 5, 2018
    #15
    Merwen and TrackerSam like this.
  16. Borat

    Borat Banned

    Joined:
    May 18, 2011
    Messages:
    23,909
    Likes Received:
    9,859
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Right... Merrick garland instead of Gorsuch, open borders instead of ICE, Obamacare instead of tax cuts, government financed abortions, Paris accords, oil dependence on Arabs and Russia instead of pipelines....


    These pathetic sore losers Republican never Trumpers are frankly beyond irrelevant, not even complete idiots pay attention to their bleating.
     
    Borat, Jul 5, 2018
    #16
    Thirty6BelowZero, Merwen, Brexx and 4 others like this.
  17. Denizen

    Denizen Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 3, 2013
    Messages:
    10,424
    Likes Received:
    5,355
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    It doesn't really matter. Kiss-of-death-Trump is digging a big, deep, hole for the GOP that will leave them buried for decades.

    Trump has demonstrated that the GOP is devoid of principles and policies and will follow any megalomaniac off a cliff.
     
    Denizen, Jul 5, 2018
    #17
    penner, AZ., AtsamattaU and 1 other person like this.
  18. Loving91390

    Loving91390 Active Member

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2017
    Messages:
    559
    Likes Received:
    216
    Trophy Points:
    43

    And yet we will still win ..... Now, go sit in the corner !
     
    Loving91390, Jul 5, 2018
    #18
    Thirty6BelowZero likes this.
  19. Denizen

    Denizen Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 3, 2013
    Messages:
    10,424
    Likes Received:
    5,355
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Sorry. Jim Jordan is occupying the corner.
     
    Denizen, Jul 5, 2018
    #19
  20. GoogleMurrayBookchin

    GoogleMurrayBookchin Banned

    Joined:
    Aug 2, 2017
    Messages:
    6,654
    Likes Received:
    2,239
    Trophy Points:
    113
    It makes more strategic sense to conceive of voters as a resource rather than independent agents. Fact is, you gotta run candidates that will effectively tap into that resource.
     
    GoogleMurrayBookchin, Jul 5, 2018
    #20
  21. yguy

    yguy Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 4, 2010
    Messages:
    18,423
    Likes Received:
    886
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Had we taken your spectacularly retarded gamble, we'd have lost the whole damn country.
     
    yguy, Jul 5, 2018
    #21
    Lil Mike likes this.
  22. Giftedone

    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jul 7, 2010
    Messages:
    63,991
    Likes Received:
    13,563
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I agree that a vote should not be wasted. Voting either Red or Blue is a wasted vote (unless you know for sure that the person you are voting for is anti Establishment)

    We need more independents.
     
    Last edited: Jul 5, 2018
    Giftedone, Jul 5, 2018
    #22
    freakonature and AtsamattaU like this.
  23. Giftedone

    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jul 7, 2010
    Messages:
    63,991
    Likes Received:
    13,563
    Trophy Points:
    113
    The losers are the those that voted for Trump because they thought he was anti Establishment. Now that Trump has turned out to be an Establishment wonk - those voters were duped.
     
    Giftedone, Jul 5, 2018
    #23
    AtsamattaU likes this.
  24. gamewell45

    gamewell45 Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Apr 10, 2011
    Messages:
    24,711
    Likes Received:
    3,547
    Trophy Points:
    113
    There are no guarantees that trump will win; if he loses, will you go and sit in the corner and cry?
     
    gamewell45, Jul 5, 2018
    #24
  25. reallybigjohnson

    reallybigjohnson Banned

    Joined:
    Jun 23, 2012
    Messages:
    8,849
    Likes Received:
    1,415
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Well I agree with him even though I usually vote Republican in non-local elections. The GOP seems to only care about spending when they are NOT in control of all three. When Bush had both chambers spending went up even more. At least when the Dems control one of the three the GOP has to pretend to care about spending. We do better with split government.
     
    reallybigjohnson, Jul 5, 2018
    #25
    freakonature, AtsamattaU and Denizen like this.
Page 1 of 6
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

Share This Page