yet more reasons to vote republican

found at sharp knife, via several links:

If a conservative stays home on Election Day, he is objectively voting for liberal Democrats. He is hampering the efforts of those who agree with him, however imperfectly. He is automatically helping those whose policies he claims to detest. He is not remaining outside the contest nor "sending a message".

He is, in fact, championing those who would see his country defeated, his Constitution rended, his liberties ended, his children stolen and his property plundered. One way or another, you're GOING to vote.

The entire thrust of Western political systems have been based on the struggle to empower the individual and recognize the individual's right--and duty--to have a say in his own governance. And on one appointed day, every other year, the individual has a vote that is the equal of any. Yet now we're told that this individual should sit mute in hopes of somehow gaining influence in the future?

In a representative democracy, if you do not present yourself, how can you possibly hope to be re-"presented"?

And did you ever notice how it is only conservatives who are told not to participate? Democrats like voting so much that they sometimes do it two or three times. Indeed, when it is suggested that voters present an ID, we're told that Jim Crow is being re-imposed. And even now, while you're contemplating abandoning your franchise, Democrats are working to extend voting rights to criminals and even foreign citizens.

There are some people who won't get to vote this year. Some of them had to choose between jumping from the top floors of the World Trade Center or dying where they stood. Others, like Spec. Casey Sheehan or Petty Officer Second Class Michael A. Monsoor won't be voting this year...because they already voted with their very lives.

They voted for you, by the way.

They gave their lives to preserve our rights and in an effort to extend these rights to others. Do we honor them by abdicating our duty? By staying at home? By giving power to those who ban ROTC and military recruiters from campuses--while welcoming cop-killers, professional perverts, even terrorists and dictators to those same Democrat-run campuses?

No. Never. Never, never, never, never.

Terrorists also want you to remain at home on Election Day. They are laboring mightily to maximize the number of American combat deaths in hopes of demoralizing you. They realize we're having an election, and they know what the stakes are.

Democrats may not support the terrorists...but terrorists are supporting the Democrats--and openly so.

Think about that.

But think about it while you're standing in the polling booth, voting on Nov. 7th.