“The key to getting what we want is taking OVER the Republican party.”
But why? What makes the “Republican Party” so valuable to us that we’d want to take it over? Does it have a group of far-seeing conservatives running it? Are they just misguided and taking a path not-quite-conservative-enough for us or are they completely off the reservation?
As the GOP now stands (or lays, depending on your point of view,) we’d have to defeat or drive out of the country every last person in the RNC and all those who have benefitted from it. Who would be called upon to do that? Why, all those social conservatives, gun owners, tax cutters and strong defense people you mentioned.
Rome ruled the known world for centuries and then declined and died. America has ruled for over two hundred years and is in serious trouble now. Perhaps it’s time for the Republican Party to pass away and be replaced by a third party... one that can properly represent all those conservatives you named.
We could call it The Conservative Party.
There are party’s out there already, but they get less than 1%. We already have the Christian vote, the gun vote, the tax cut vote, the strong defense vote and more. Nothing is pure. There are many Repubs that make me ill, McCain and Romney are 2 of them. But they are better than Obama. That’s what we have and that’s all we will get. The Tea Party handed the Repubs a victory and we couldn’t even get a Tea Party committee chairman. Some Republicans need to leverage their power to get what they want, or we will be ignored once again. That is what Newt is trying to do. In the end, they know we will all stay on the plantation and vote for Romney over Obama. This is the same tactic the Dems use to keep their various factions on board. I guarantee there are scores of Dems that aren’t happy with Obama, but they would never vote “R”. They just keep hoping that one day there would be another FDR and 11 years of Depression to get gubmint checks over. Obama is almost there, but he needs one more term to destroy America. Romeny isn’t my first choice, he’s not even my 5th choice, but he’s not Obama.