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Why I No Longer Consider Myself a Republican
Les Femmes ^ | July 2, 2011 | Mary Ann Kreitzer

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.

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.)
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.

Support the good guys and let the bad ones fend for themselves. Don't give them a nickle or your vote, no matter how many Republican flunkies wring their hands and tell you the sky is falling.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; conservatism; newyork; republican; rickperry; rino; rinos; texas
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To: NYer

Shouldn’t it be Las Femmes, or is this a political statement?


61 posted on 07/03/2011 7:13:41 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: NYer

I changed my party affiliation to “none” the day after McCrazy was nominated.


62 posted on 07/03/2011 7:22:55 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: muawiyah

“You don’t want to suggest that blacks vote 95% Democrat and effectively control the Democrat party? “

I don’t want to suggest that being black is a bad thing. The way being an active homosexual or a union thug is a bad thing.

It is ok to be black.

I also don’t think they control the Dem. party. I think pretty much northeastern white moneyed liberals control it.


63 posted on 07/03/2011 7:44:44 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: NYer

The problem is, what is the Republican party? There’s national, state, local. My state GOP reps have been kicking ass in the statehouse this year. Should I abandon the party because of what happened in the liberal state of NY, or we have Weepy John Boner for House speaker?

I’m not here to throw the baby out with the bath water. We need one more Tea Party election in 2012. If we can sweep a bunch more in, it’s going to be a different GOP. Let’s all try to get off our collective asses to make that happen.


64 posted on 07/03/2011 9:37:11 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: cradle of freedom

Yup. I agree.


65 posted on 07/04/2011 5:10:14 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: Persevero

You do? Explain Obama!


66 posted on 07/04/2011 5:13:15 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

A RINO is a conservative imposter. Among other things RINOs believe in big government, going along to get along, political elitism, abortion and enriching themselves in office. In the absense of any other info I say two things you didn’t mention are in play in Texas:

1. RINOs are going along to get along.
2. Genuine conservatives out number them.

One other thing: RINOs have no core principles which they would fight and/or die for. They simply gravitate to the most powerful political entity. Some call this being a politician. I call it souless. One could intuit from my comment that if conservatism was the dominant philosophy RINOs would gravitate toward it. Undoubtedly this would be true in some cases. But I instinctively do not trust people whose total existence is defined by self interest.


67 posted on 07/04/2011 6:16:25 AM PDT by dools0007world (uestion)
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To: dools0007world
A RINO is a Democrat who runs under a Republican label in a district where a regular Republican probably couldn't win.

The earliest use of RINO for the purpose of differentiating Conservatives from Liberals was AFTER 9/11/2001 on Free Republic ~ in a thread where the classical meaning was also used. All earlier usages pertained to former Democrat office-holders.

Since we already have sufficient names to call or describe the filthy little Leftwingtards in this country I suggest we continue using them and not get hung up all that much on RINOs except to CUT THEM OFF. We do not need any more ex-Democrat officeholders running as Republicans to help us out.

68 posted on 07/04/2011 8:48:39 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

“You do? Explain Obama!”

I think Obama is their man. He’s everything they wanted in a candidate.


69 posted on 07/04/2011 6:15:53 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero
You mean someone who can read but not understand?

Probably their kind of black candidate of course.

70 posted on 07/04/2011 7:10:58 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

‘You mean someone who can read but not understand?

Probably their kind of black candidate of course. “

I mean someone who is totally sold out to the liberal/commie way.

I don’t know, but I think Obama understands.

I just think he has been raised by America-hating family and schooled in America-hating countries, mentored by an America-hating man, then joined an America-hating church and worked at an America-hating university, so, he is the product of what he has been taught all these years. If he has retained any real patriotism in his life I would be pleasantly surprised. I am sorry to say so. I am sorry he was bathed in all that all the time.


71 posted on 07/04/2011 7:18:09 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero
Sorry, I met his mother at a party pretty much attended by a huge number of very right wing Dutch Indonesians.

They worked for various US government intelligence agencies.

I suspect he was kept in the dark about what his mother was really up to, or what his grandfather really did for a living.

The jury is still out on this ~ but he's just not up to the task of adopting any particular ideology. He reads well and has a voice remarkably like that of Ike Eisenhower.

You can win an election that way. Not that you can govern, but you can win.

72 posted on 07/04/2011 7:25:41 PM PDT by muawiyah
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