Every day another part of me just doesn’t care. It’s a heavy realization that Reagan and now his ideals are openly mocked by the wing of the party he created.
Nothing but excuses for failure and ‘pragmatism over principle.
Exit, at this rate I’m going to end up either politically agnostic oe an anarchist. I try to maintain that there are good people left in the conservative movement. I KNOW there are. But we are outnumbered 50-1 even on conservative sites by the go along get along GOP fanboys.
I want to fight. Need to actually. But it’s getting closer by the day to saying to hell with it, and just living the rest of my life and watching it all burn.
The issue, Norm, is that people need to put their money where their mouths are. You know this.
Even on this site, we have people telling us we *have* to support the status quo even though it’s a known loser, or else we’ll ... wait for it ... lose.
When enough people finally get tired of watching John Boehner and Mitch McConnell playing ‘spin the bottle’ with Baraq, we’ll see the kind of grass-roots energy that will solve the problem one way or the other.
But you’re quite right. The fanboys are running the show now. Today, they seem to have gotten more than a little help from people we thought we could trust.
For honest conservatives, the last trust in the Republican Party is gone. It’s every man for himself now.
Most of the old guys, Vietnam vets and such are too old to do anything but take up space. I resigned myself to this outcome before Obama was even elected, because I could see exactly what was happening.
We have no where to go except home.
Norm, I could have written your post 62, word for word.
Since the beginning of GWB’s second term eight years ago, it has been a steady decline with the GOP leading the charge against all I hold dear.
The election of 2010 was the one bright hope, but now I realize that it is the express intent of BOTH parties to manage the decline of America and to feast off its carcass, all the while convincing us to rally round the flag, boys, one more time. I am just a speed bump in their road.
I left the GOP a month ago.
I want to fight too. I call congressmen and Senators all the time, on all the issues, but now I realize it really is an exercise in futility.
They don’t love America. They are in the inner circle and they aim to stay there, because the perks are out of this world.
Out of 535 members of Congress, I only respect less then ten.
Look at Benghazi-think there will ever be justice there?
Obama is now unstoppable. the Dems will tolerate the Pubs for exactly two more years. The Dems will win the House at all costs in 2014 and retain the Senate, after a campaign of vilification against the GOP they will not believe.
Then we will be back to Pelosi as Speaker, and John Boner will be crying because they locked the GOP out of the committee rooms again.
For good.
Can’t go through the head games anymore for people who are not worthy.
Well, at least I know there are still good guys like you around and we can check in from time to time. We have all been gelded now, some here don’t realize it yet.
Hope the GOP enjoys its last two years as a political force. or forty years before 1994, they were the minority party and they enjoyed being that. for twenty years they had the stage and completely blew it. Not to worry, they will be comfortably in the minority by the start of the 114th Congress, and they will never have to worry about making waves again.
Without any help from me.
Ever.
I was getting ready to post something similar. I've done about all I could do for many years. Letter writing, phone calls, local editorials, etc. I think we have reached a tipping point nationally of which there is no hope for recovery. I expect we will lose the house in 2014. I doubt another republican will be elected president in my lifetime (unless there is a major war or foreign policy becomes #1 issue). The takers + fed government workers outnumber the producers. They will not be voting themselves a paycut and lifestyle reduction anytime soon.
I give up. They win. We are too stupid to govern ourselves and I think the founders knew it when they wrote up the constitution. Eventually we would vote ourselves back into slavery. Now we have.
Amen brother. AMEN.
And before anyone takes offense, for the record, I was out fighting well before most of you were born and I’m 1) running out of gas and 2) running out of hope. I don’t recognize America anymore.
I never thought I ‘d ever see this day.