Trump carries

[KestrelBike]

As for people like Starnes who wish to blame Republican voters for "screwing this up" by refusing to vote for Romney **** you with a rusty chainsaw. Neither I or anyone else is under any obligation to vote for anyone or to vote at all.

The party that wishes me to vote for their candidate instead of either staying home or voting for Cthulu has the affirmative obligation to run a candidate worth voting for, and if they cannot be bothered to do that they deserve to be destroyed as a political force in this or any other nation.

That's all well and good, but do not forget that tangible, perhaps irreversible harm is done when the alternatives are elected due to abstaining from voting (R). See: obamacare. open borders and the legacy that does/will entail. Supreme court nominations (Kagan, Sotomayor, next-??? don't forget any of those justices could drop dead at any moment, they're allllll within range of a fatal cardiac or neural event. Hell, ginsburg was a complete selfish idiot (for liberals, not conservatives lol) for not retiring from '08 to a year ago when it would have been a slam-dunk for obummer to nominate another Kagan/Soto in her place). AG nominations who let themselves and other departments get away with egregious crimes against the country (F&F, lois lerner at the IRS targetting conservatives, hillary emailgate, holder's big-bank circlejerkism http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...-cold-20150708 , the trade deals, the chance of another AWB, etc etc that's just off the top of my head.

Is all of that concrete hurt worth the raspberry you give to the establishment that already has all the money and power they amicably trade back and forth with the other side of the same coin, the dems? The GOP might not hold up to the exact standards you want them to, but by not voting for them, you vote *by default* for the dems who WILL do their damnedest to make you live how THEY want you to live. Of zero consequence besides your conscience (and again, totally up to you, but don't pretend you're doing the better tangible good) is your absent vote. Tell me again how Romney rues the day he couldn't get you to come out and vote for him, or how bad Cantor, Boehner, or Ryan are doing after they lost, quit, or just aren't your favorite. People like obummer, biden, and hillary would send you a thank you card for your actions if they had your address.