Vote Down the Ballot
Vote Down the Ballot
By Randy A. Samuelson
Early voting for the March primary begins next week in Texas. While many believe the top of the ticket is already decided and is uninspiring towards fiscal conservatives, the Republican base still needs to turn out in support of our down ballot conservatives in contested races.
Because of the low turnout that is expected, many conservative candidates will not fare well in their down ballot elections for County, State Legislative, and Congressional races. This will hurt our chances of holding or gaining conservative representation in the general election even harder.
In 2006, because of the lackluster top of the ticket in the general election, Republicans stayed home statewide. This allowed the Democrats to win back many State House seats and County races in places like Dallas and Tarrant Counties. I call the 2006 election the “Dallas Massacre” as Democrats in Dallas won nearly every down ballot race in the county. This was all due to voter apathy among conservative Republicans.
We conservatives are spending so much time complaining about John McCain that we are forgetting that Bill Zedler, Betty Brown, and Doc Anderson all have primary opponents. If our conservative base does not get out to support these incumbent conservatives, along with others like Bryan Daniel, Mike Pearce, and Randy Dunning, we have nobody to blame but ourselves when the State Legislature increases taxes and spending in 2009.
Remember to vote down the ballot for conservatives down the ballot in the 2008 primary! Voter apathy is the friend of bureaucrats and liberals.
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2 comments:
The interesting local races with primaries include TCRP GOP Chair, HD48, and HD52. I will be voting Romney for President, and I may explain that later: Bottom-line, it's time to just vote for who you really prefer and let the chips fall where they may.
My thoughts on the primary election:
All this talk of voting for Hillary or Obama over the other to somehow improve
the situation is egregious and vain. All it does is suck energy away
from Republican primary focus. Both Hillary and Obama could well be
the winning nominee, and you do not want to help make that happen.
Both have at least 50/50 chance of beating the Republicans but neither is inevitable.
Frankly, I think Hillary is the tougher candidate in the fall. Obama
is less experienced, more liberal, and more 'definable'. Hillary is Hillary, a relentless
machine.
So where do I come down?
I will proudly vote for Mitt Romney in the primary in Texas March 4th.
Why? He's my pick. I don't care that he dropped out. Neither Huckabee
nor McCain are my candidate, and I determined that I cannot abide
McCain's immigration amnesty, so I will not vote for him. So I will let McCain win with his voters,
nor do I see any merit in voting Huckabee as an 'anti-McCain' vote, as he
is worse. The pipedream of a brokered convention could end up as a nightmare.
Better not to encourage such a thought.
Wasted vote? Not at all. Conservatives need to vote for conservatives.
Not Obama, not Hillary, and not one RINO to stop another RINO.
I urge GOP voters to vote for Hunter, Tancredo, Thompson, Romney or Rudy - vote for their
favorite "none of the above" candidate. I notice that in Washington, Romney got 16% of the
vote. Not bad for a guy who dropped out
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