Republican Establishment Declares War on GOP Voters [Scott Rasmussen]

Rasmussen Reports ^ | Friday, January 11, 2013 | Scott Rasmussen

[palmer]

We still pay attention to Rasmussen?

[OldPossum]

That does it...I’m registering as an Independent. Screw the GOP.

I gave up on the GOP a couple months ago. I plan to vote for candidates of the American Conservative Party and anyone else who represents my viewpoints. I know that the GOP doesn't.

[palmer]

We listen to politico?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yeah, what a bunch of antidisestablishmentarianism!

[EternalVigilance]

We still pay attention to Rasmussen?

When we agree with him.

Hey, this is Free Republic!

/s

[Timber Rattler]

Trying to protect the party, eh, by questioning the messengers?

[Theodore R.]

The problem is that too many of our little Republican primary voters are themselves establishment or establishment-wannabees, the kind receptive to Jebbie for 2016 because “only he can win.”

[Huskrrrr]

I didn’t leave the GOP, they left me.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

GOP scrambles to fix its primary problem

If the GOP wants to fix it's primary problem, they wouldn't let just anyone vote in "open primaries".

[COBOL2Java]

Trying to protect the party, eh, by questioning the messengers?

The die hard apologists will always be around. They're still parading in Moscow, pining for Vladimir, for goodness sake.

[EternalVigilance]

Well, we certainly got more than a full dose of that last year.

[Sybeck1]

On an another note, why do we allow Iowa and New Hampshire pick our candidate? They don’t vote for them in the general!!

[Always A Marine]

That does it...I’m registering as an Independent. Screw the GOP.

I says screw the GOPe, not the GOP. No third party has a chance of success, except to guarantee a Communist victory. We must defeat the GOPe in the primaries and elect more Republicans like Ted Cruz. Taking back the GOP - perhaps with a handful of Conservative independent candidates who will caucus on the Right side of the aisle - is the only road to success.

Senate Target Number One: Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
House Target Number One: Phil Gingrey of Georgia

[Timber Rattler]

See #19 above.

[Tupelo]

Flake is better than them two earmark loving, pork fondling Republicrats from Mississippi. But I am still not convinced that he is any better than Kyle. I sure hope so, but only time will tell.

[jpl]

Yep, patriotic American conservatives have been some of the most despised people in the country (and the world) for a while now. We’re the thorn in the side of the totalitarians that never completely goes away.

[Salvey]

That does it...I’m registering as an Independent. Screw the GOP.

My wife and I changed our registration from stupid party to independent two weeks ago. Liberating and refreshing!

[AdaGray]

They truly are stupid. Without the base, they will never win control. But then, I think the GOP establishment prefers to be in the minority.

[nomad]

And what do you mean by that question? Does it matter if they ALL won? Then you are implying that statist philosophy won, in which case why should I have even voted for any of those Republicrats, since they are themselves statists, (read collectivists) and I for one, AM MOST CERTAINLY NOT!

That's either more proof of a SCREAMING need for a third party, or that America really is lost to the statists(collectivists). Which do you believe?

I believe we stand on principles or whats the sense of voting, since they`d ALL be statists any way?

[Antoninus]

This infuriated establishment Republicans for two reasons. First, because they liked Lugar and the way he worked. Second, because the replacement candidate was flawed and allowed Democrats to win what should have been a safe Republican seat.

This is not completely true. Mark Kirk was flawed and still won because the GOP-e supported him to the hilt, as did rank and file conservatives, foolishly. Meanwhile Mourdock lost in Indiana not because he was flawed, but because the GOP-e bailed on him because he defeated one of their golden boys. Same thing happened to Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. Until conservatives learn NEVER to support liberal Republicans under any circumstances, nothing will change.