I’m trying to figure out why any self-respecting conservative would live in CA, NY or NJ.
This one along with hubby left CA for the State of Georgia.
“I’m trying to figure out why any self-respecting conservative would live in CA, NY or NJ.”
Unfortunate circumstance. We are saving for and plotting our escape.
I am disappointed, but not surprised.
Hubby and I did make some calls and send e-mails regarding this. We tried.
Simple, really. Sixty-five years of connection to family and community.
Add Illinois to your list.
Signed, Ashamed in Illinois
OR D.C., Maryland & Illinois. D.C. is home to a lot of Conservatives so that's not really fair so I guess you could work in D.C. and still live in the land of the free: Virginia.
Some of us have elderly parents that we need to look after. And we also have the mentality of fighting the battle, rather than running away.
Why don't you ask Jim Robinson?
For me it's the weather, opportunity, prosperity, the mountains, the deserts, the beaches, skiing, surfing off-roading, to fight for the causes we believe in. Politics in California changes faster than the housing market. Liberalism comes and goes in our state, but California is the the best place in the nation to live and raise my children -- hands down.
Liberalism is a national problem - except in your state, of course.
Maybe you should ask Jim Robinson, seeing as FreeRepublic originates in California.
Some of us know that we stand in the mouth of the beast and fight it here or else it winds up at your doorstep. Best you show a little respect for that.
The self-respecting conservatives stay in California.
The ones that are intimidated by the liberals and don't have the temerity to fight for the conservative causes in places we call the belly of the beast are the ones that show a lack of self respect.
Or desire to keep this country on the right track.
Don't worry, we'll keep fighting the Liberals in California while you reap the benefits.
It will be easier for us without you and the others on this thread that run from the fight and then bash California.
If we don’t fight everywhere, we will lose everywhere. How do you think the left has a stranglehold of the country in the first place? By only staying in San Francisco?
Residents from California donate more to Freerepublic than any other state.
I'm trying to figure out why any self respecting conservative would vote for a RINO because he's "the lesser of two evils". The lesser of two evils is still evil and an enemy of our Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Many CA conservatives made that mistake by voting for Ahhnold over a real conservative because "he can win" and he had an R by his name. And now CA conservatives who did not vote for the lesser of two evils are also paying the price for their compromising brethren's stupid mistake.
>>I’m trying to figure out why any self-respecting conservative would live in CA, NY or NJ.<<
Because we’d have to be living somewhere else for at least a year to qualify for in-state tuition?
Besides, if all of us left, this would have just happened faster.