https://redstate.com/erick/2011/12/14/please-shut-up-with-your-incessant-whining/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:42:09 -0400<![CDATA[Please shut up. Just stop.I am so damn tired of getting whining little tweets and angry emails from people because I&#8217;ve dared to say something they perceive as an attack on their candidate. Sometimes I get those just for — horror of horrors — pointing out their actual voting record. Yes, in fact, Mitt Romney did say he supported abortion rights by saying his mother did and yes his wife did give money to Planned Parenthood. Deal with it.OMG THE HORROR!!!!Shut up.Seriously.The supporters of the various candidates for President are under some deluded notion that the way you win a primary is to focus on the Democrat. While it is true that the candidates must focus on the Democrat, the way you actually win the primary is to also convince voters you are the best guy to beat the Democrat. The way you accomplish that is typically to show just how seriously defective the other guys are by trolling their record and various skeletons in their closet. You may not like it, but since the Federalists first pointed out Thomas Jefferson might have an illegitimate black child, that&#8217;s kind of been the way things have worked around here.]]>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:01:31 -0500<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2011/12/14/please-shut-up-with-your-incessant-whining-n41500