Our standard bearers have been RINOs since Reagan. What do you expect?
Either Bush? -RINO.
Dole? -RINO.
McCain? -hard core RINO. Maybe more a stealth democrat.
Romney? -Now come on! An east coast elitist who as governor passed assault weapons ban, Obamacare lite, and raised taxes; RINO, RINO, RINO!!!!!
Now look at what the Dems had as their leaders; progressively more hard core leftists at each election, until we see them elect a Communist. At least they are unified, and it proves you have to motivate and inspire your base. Republicans have watered down their base until nobody cares and we don’t even get the same numbers to vote in 2012 as we did in 2008, which would have removed Obama.
Going libertarian has the inherent danger of splitting the conservative ticket, but I am getting tired of compromising my principles for what has been up until now a vote for the lesser of two evils.
The Republicans are in danger of becoming a sideline party, replacing libertarians IMHO.
I know I am at that point.
Yes, and I am too. I was always opposed to a third party because I thought it would split the vote and assure Democratic victories. But now, I don’t think it matters much since the Republicans manage to squander every single opportunity when they get a majority. They try to out-Democrat the Democrats and end up demoralizing their base. We saw it in the last Presidential election. If we had thought much about it instead of listening to the likes of Karl Rove, Hannity, Limbaugh and others, we would have known that Romney didn’t stand the chance of a snowball in hell. I thought that anyone in their right mind would show up to vote against Obama. Boy was I wrong.