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Posted on 02/01/2012 1:36:41 PM PST by servo1969
Screw the GOP. I am done with them.
The Gone Old Party.
Given the way the party elites have behaved in recent years, I no longer care. Sure an Obama re-election irreparably wrecks the economy and brings about economic collapse, but a Romney Presidency probably does the exact same thing just at a slightly slower pace.
This country isn't serious about reform. Might as well go ahead and have the total collapse now and get it over with. Sure there will be a tremendous amount of pain and suffering, but we will have brought it all upon ourselves as a nation.
If we can hold off the Chinese and other potential scavengers, then perhaps we can start rebuilding from the ashes. Who knows? Maybe then common sense conservatism can at long last prevail.
Buh, bye.
Gollies
and them the very ones pushing your 2008 pick, your boy Willie Mitty...
How come youre so upset with them ???
arent we “anti-Romneys” the ones you hate with a passion any more ???
you should be mad with glee...
Perhaps.
But the Democrats have clearly become the Communist Party, and that seems to have worked out quite well for them.
Yes, very well indeed.
To be among the Ruling Class is to be a creature of government or else firmly attached to one of its multitude of nourishing teats. Those of us desirous of a more anonymous and privately remunerative life must compete with them not only for political influence, but increasingly, for a right to the fruits of our own labors and to make even minute decisions about the course of our own lives.
In such a parlous state, no nation can long endure. Things eventually do fall apart. And presently, they are.
Ditto.
In 1852 the Whigs nominated an old war horse who lost to a political newcomer. A new party was in power 8 years later.
In 2008 the Republicans nominated an old war horse who lost to a political newcomer. Will we have a new party in 2016?
Everything seems to be falling apart at once.
Not quite, but I guess it's kind of in the ballpark.
About the present: Parties out of power exaggerate their positions, and parties in power tend to moderate them. So the Republicans of 1994 were different from the Republicans of the Bush years. So the Democrats of the Bush years made all kinds of claims about foreign policy that weren't supported by the actions of the Clinton or Obama administrations. So the next Republican President isn't going to have the level of tea party sentiment to deal with that was present in 2010. So will the party be as split as he claims if we win?
The other factor is that parties can get serious after a loss. If we lose this time, won't we get organized enough to do it right next time?
Slavery, by contrast, was an issue that didn't go away. You could be say that the Whigs didn't get a chance. They lost in 1852 and the Democrats started to set the scene for civil war.
If the Whigs had won that election, would they have coped better with sectional divisions and not let things decay as quickly as they did? I guess in the end, though, the Whigs did fail, whether they had a chance or not.
And likewise!
There is no Tea Party candidate in the race.
Yes that abut sums it up/
I listened to Newt’s speech last night and he almost sounded like he was campaigning as a third party candidate. Several things he said made me immediately jump to the idea of ‘third party.’
PING!
Very good article. We’ll see how it all plays out probably by Super Tuesday. If Gingrich takes the lead the Republican party might continue on... and if Romney wins, there will be a split.
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