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Today I became an Independent voter

Posted on 01/10/2014 9:19:01 PM PST by uscga77

A Republican no more


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: gopbootlickers; ntsa; paleolib; randsconcerntrolls; stfu; troll; uniparty
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To: GeronL

Yeah, sure!


61 posted on 01/10/2014 11:19:11 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: South40
btw...you should be sure to let the GOP know what you did and why the next time they call you seeking contributions.

I did that some years ago, and I called them on the phone to do it. I cursed that MF up one side and down the other before I hung up as well. I actually think the guy was a bit understanding. Maybe he was not too happy with the RINOs either.

62 posted on 01/11/2014 12:15:16 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: Secret Agent Man
this is part of going galt. good for you.

Roger on the going Galt. I did.

63 posted on 01/11/2014 12:21:04 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: uscga77

I’m with you uscga77,
With “leadership” like boehner and mc connell the pubbie party is just not what I’m in to.
Dem lite garbage


64 posted on 01/11/2014 1:48:50 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: Mark17
I did that some years ago, and I called them on the phone to do it. I cursed that MF up one side and down the other before I hung up as well. I actually think the guy was a bit understanding. Maybe he was not too happy with the RINOs either.

I had the opportunity when they called me for a contribution. Realizing the person on the other end was just a worker trying to earn a paycheck, I was polite but to the point. I asked him how old he was and he told me 20. I then told him in a calm manner that I had been a registered Republican for longer than he had been alive and that I was both saddened and furious to see the once Grand Old Party turn so far left. I told him I could no longer in good conscience support financially or with my vote a party that had abandoned me and my core values. He sounded as though he understood and told me that I was not the only person he had heard that from. That was 7 years ago and the party has not changed course, it continues to go down the sewer. I believe if more people would do what I did it would matter. They're not about to change as long as suckers continue throwing money their way. I haven't received another call from the GOP since.

65 posted on 01/11/2014 1:57:22 AM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: uscga77
In my state the choices are Dimwitorat, Republican and Unaffiliated. So when I first decided to register to vote and realizing the crooks and swindlers in both parties I went with unaffiliated. In my state you can vote in one or the other primary but not both. In the 2008 primary I thought Obama was the most dangerous entity in either party so I voted against him in the dim primary. Then of course I voted Republican in the General election. In 2012 I voted in the Republican primary since the dim one was a given. I have never voted for any dim in a general election. One thing for sure, both parties fear the unaffiliated/independent voter.
66 posted on 01/11/2014 2:21:42 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: uscga77

Symbolic and in my opinion not too smart if it takes your chance of voting for a Tea Party candidates in the primary. Every time a conservative leaves the party it helps the RINO in the primary. I prefer being an Independent in spirit. Too many options are taken away otherwise.


67 posted on 01/11/2014 2:38:11 AM PST by BushCountry (Obama: The dentist told me I need a crown. I was like I KNOW, RIGHT?)
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To: uscga77
After reading the posts I see that some here on FR still don't get it.
I've been blasted for many years on my Independent beliefs and decided to take a stand by changing my party affiliation from Republican to Independent , not for anyone else, but for my own conscience. It is a liberating feeling. Welcome
68 posted on 01/11/2014 2:43:52 AM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: uscga77
If men like Paul "Judas" Ryan (who not only betrayed our military, but is still bragging about it) are the "Good Republicans" - then I am out as well.


69 posted on 01/11/2014 3:01:10 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: South40
I haven't received another call from the GOP since.

I haven't either.

70 posted on 01/11/2014 3:08:00 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: uscga77

About a year ago I left the Republican Party and became a Libertarian. The final straw was the fiscal cliff fiasco and Boehner’s mishandling of it. I have many differences with the Libertarians but fewer than I do with what passes for today’s Republican Party.


71 posted on 01/11/2014 3:23:05 AM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: uscga77

I’ve taken it a step further. I’ve just quit voting altogether.

We have to acknowledge that unless things turn around a lot, there’s no use. While we weren’t looking, the b@stards have indoctrinated waves of students who now vote against this country as we knew it. IOW, they have won.

If a real second party emerges with possibilities, I’ll rethink my position.


72 posted on 01/11/2014 3:55:52 AM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: uscga77

Turning in pubbie stripes for independence is great, except if it disallows you to vote in a primary, ie for T Party candidates.


73 posted on 01/11/2014 4:26:32 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: juan_galt

When the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Donohue, and Karl Rove et al make it perfectly clear that they will work to defeat conservatives in the primaries, why would we show up to vote for another of their milquetoast “moderate” Republicans in the general election? Let them win with their millionaire base.


74 posted on 01/11/2014 4:30:59 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: OldPossum

“I’ve taken it a step further. I’ve just quit voting altogether.

We have to acknowledge that unless things turn around a lot, there’s no use. While we weren’t looking, the b@stards have indoctrinated waves of students who now vote against this country as we knew it. IOW, they have won.

If a real second party emerges with possibilities, I’ll rethink my position.”

Obama and the rest of his commie ilk that have taken over the country, thank you profusely!!


75 posted on 01/11/2014 4:34:14 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: uscga77

Don’t do that. Either register Democrat to vote in their primary, or republican to vote in the primary. If people here in OK followed your example, we would not have elected Jim Bridenstein, and be stuck with the RINO John Sullivan


76 posted on 01/11/2014 4:56:16 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: kenmcg
“Obama and the rest of his commie ilk that have taken over the country, thank you profusely!!”

I agree with you. I can't cotton to the idiots that stayed home, didn't vote and gave us four more years of the Rat@#%&!**. I almost quit FR during the 2012 election because of the overwhelming whining about Romney. He wasn't my first choice either but anything the Reps. put out there was better to take a chance on than giving the Communist four more years of unfettered power. Romney couldn't have done as much damage in four years as the Socialist can do in a week. But What did we have here on FR, whaaaaayyyy, whaaayyyy Romney is a Mormon......whine....whine.....Romney is a flip flopper......boooo hooooo hooooo......Romney is a RINO and it went on and on and on. People took their ball and went home leaving us to the mercy of a POTUS with no more elections to worry about and nothing to fear with every branch of government, government agency infiltrated by his command with enemies of this country hell bent on destroying it. Not to mention the opportunity to appoint liberal communist supreme court appointments.

77 posted on 01/11/2014 5:14:11 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: uscga77
I'm no longer a Republican, either. In OH, they seem to be the corporate greed party, with conservatives having no input whatsoever.

I think it might be wise for constitutional conservatives to get registered for the primaries, though. We have to vote against the likes of Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan or any other RNC faves. Otherwise, we're letting them run the show.

78 posted on 01/11/2014 5:22:05 AM PST by grania
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To: MagnoliaB

Didn’t like Romney one bit as the nominee, but I pulled the lever for him and that’ll be the last time I do so for a man like him.

Don’t care about his Mormonism. He is a flip-flopper. No way he’d have repealed ObamaCare—there’d have been excuses and he’d have tinkered around the edges with it. Amnesty? He’d have been pushing for it. The courts? We’d have gotten more progressives. He was a terrible choice to represent the party.

Would it have been AS bad with him at the helm? Probably not. But it wouldn’t have been much different, either. Same course, just slower.

As for those who stayed home or voted 3rd party? I don’t blame them one bit. Probably because I was on the edge of it myself.


79 posted on 01/11/2014 5:24:07 AM PST by Nickname
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To: MagnoliaB

FACT:

We CAN NOT defeat the socialists in the democrat party until we defeat and purge the socialists in the republican party.

Therefore our PRIMARY targets are the socialists in the republican party. If there is an opportunity to hit secondary targets, DO IT! but the primary targets MUST go down first or we LOSE the war!

Im tired of stupid people who cant seem to grasp the nature of the battlefield.


80 posted on 01/11/2014 5:33:57 AM PST by myself6
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