Posted on 07/03/2011 3:10:42 PM PDT by NYer
I used to work for the Republican Party. I was a member of the Fairfax County Republican Committee for several years and a precinct chairman. When I moved to Woodstock I joined the Republican Women of Shenandoah Country and was Secretary. I quit when the executive board decided we had to support a woman who supported liberal positions spending initiative because she was a Republican woman. Apparently, what you stand for means nothing as long as you call yourself Republican.
So when I read the American Thinker article, The Need For A Militant Conservative Movement, it struck a chord. Read it and, if you're a conservative, see if it resonates with you as well:
Late last week, the New York State Senate voted to legalize homosexual marriage, giving equality with heterosexual marriage, the foundational unit of every single human society in the last 5,000 years of recorded history.Yup, the Republican Party has betrayed us. Party politics trumps the truth almost every time. Consider Rick Santorum supporting Arlen Specter in PA and Newt Gingrich supporting Dede Scozzafava in NY. Both Specter and Scozzafava were RINOs as liberal as any Democrat, but Santorum passed up a pro-life candidate and Newt just counted Republican seats -- as if those folks can be counted on to vote traditional values. And the Republican leadership concedes to the left every time. So my strategy these days is VOTE CONSERVATIVE. If a Republican is liberal no amount of scare mongering by the leadership will get me to support him (or her). Did Scott Brown stop Obamacare? No! But he was our savior! In reality, he's one more so-called conservative supporting the radical homosexual agenda. He helped repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell and invited a hard-core "gay" activist to the bill signing. What did pro-family folks gain with Brown? A kick in the teeth.
This is an enormous victory for the gay rights movement and for the American left. Like most of the left's victories in recent years, it could not have happened without the support of the Republican Party (which controls the New York State Senate). Republican fingerprints are all over Roe v. Wade, No Child Left Behind, affirmative action, amnesty for illegals, and the expansion of Medicare. Indeed, gay marriage failed in New York when the Democrats controlled the State Senate in 2009.
It's time for conservatives to face the truth: there is no conservative party in the United States. There is a leftist party, and a slightly-less-leftist party.
Forty percent of Americans self-identify as conservatives. Yet conservatives could not muster enough political support to defend traditional, heterosexual marriage against homosexuals, who comprise less than five percent of the population. But the gays -- whose campaign in New York was fronted by the circus freak Lady Gaga -- have been everywhere, French-kissing on the steps of state capitols from Sacramento to Albany, marching through the streets of San Francisco in bondage leather, throwing condoms and hosts at priests celebrating Mass in New York City, running television ads advocating gay marriage, donating pro bono legal representation to their cause, and enacting vendettas, protests, and boycotts against anyone who disagrees with them.
Gays, a tiny fraction of the population, have been organized and militant. This is true of the left in general....
The combined numbers of gays, blacks, unions, and other groups comprising the left fail to outnumber conservatives. Yet conservatives have suffered defeat after defeat on almost every major issue for decades. Conservatives have been disorganized and passive, while leftists have been militant and united in their fifty-year quest to destroy every single traditional, bourgeois norm and value in American life -- while smugly enjoying the security and economic prosperity that was created by those very same bourgeois norms and values. (Read entire article here.)
I’m a Conservative only. I give my money to Conservative candidates only and hang up the phone on all Republican calls for help.
When Conservatives decide to go third party...I’ll be right there with them.
I am a neither also,but will not vote independant and cause what Perot caused,the country cant aford that
Huh? Whu?
If you didn't have Giuliani you wouldn't have much else (in terms of folks still young enough to stand up and walk unattended).
We probably ought to pull their right to so many delegates to the Presidential nominating convention though.
Dole-Kemp did it for me.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Bush / Quayle did it for me .
More and more conservatives are waking up to the fact the republicrat party is all for themselves and against conservatives.
Here in NY, 4 Republicans were elected because of their anti-gay marriage stance. According to Maggie Gallagher, with the National Organization for Marriage:
Grisanti, who beat Antoine Thompson (a black Democrat who voted for gay marriage) is in a district trending Democratic — and the incumbent lost in part because he voted for gay marriage. I think he’s going to be in a serious trouble.
Grisanti won the district because of his pro traditional marriage stance. He was on the Conservative ticket! Grisanti's vote was the one that legalized gay marriage in NYS.
Sorry ... I no longer trust anything these Republican or Conservative candidates have to say.
>> Yup, the Republican Party has betrayed us.
More accurately, a segment of the old GOP continues to betray us. The GOP as a whole is failing to discipline and eradicate the backstabbers.
I’m increasingly coming to believe that the Presidency is not that important ... at least not as much as many of us have always believed it to be.
Congress and it’s make up is more important. Yes, the President can veto everything but, really, is that realistic over 4 years? Congress holds the purse strings, confirms appointees and must vote to go to war (or did until recently).
The Elite Rulers laugh at us as they play Democrat-Republican and tell each other, “Look at those Rubes lap it up, like rooters for two football teams.”
I have said the same thing.
Reminds me of a comment Glenn Beck once made on FOX. “If you want a socialist, vote Democrat. If you want a Democrat, vote Republican.”
You got that in 2000-2006. You happy with the results?
Let this be a lesson to all of us -— Voting RINO (non-conservative) just to win is worse than losing.
I still consider myself “Republican” and vote straight Republican every time, but I think our little party is ineffective, embarrassing, and as useless as a one-legged clothespin. A loyal Democrat will vote straight Democrat but never disparage his party.
I don’t disagree with you, and vote for true conservatives in the primaries, and occasionally vote for a 3rd party, when both the Republican and Dem candidate are equally liberal, particularly on the social issues, and make it to the General Election.
How about Romney’s latest letters beginning with “Dear Friend”? He must not be aware of the fact that I would never be friends with any politician except for our current state Representative whose company also keeps my air conditioner running and at a price I can afford. Did not hesitate to send back response that the last politician that used that greeting was McCain whom I voted for only because Sarah was his running mate. Fortunately Romney uses postage pre-paid envelopes.
I believe in what the Republican Party as it was founded.
I DO NOT believe in what the Republican Party is today.
I take refuge in the Republican Party as there are a few remaining true blue FREEDOM / LIBERTY oriented Republicans.
That is all I have to cling to.
Oh yes, There is the TEA PARTY. May they bring us salvation.
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