Posted on 10/03/2013 11:51:06 AM PDT by noprogs
p.s. don your flame suit.
Another blog pimp?
That isn't what happened, the repulsive GOP leadership was already the Rockefeller republicans, the Nixons, Fords, HW Bush, Dole types, the still and current leadership we call rinos.
Reagan managed to win the nomination on his third presidential run, in spite of them, and rallied conservatives and the religious right in an effort to take over the GOP from the rinos, we are still fighting that battle.
"Ridicule & embarrassment"; great sales technique.
Perhaps a "modicum of diplomacy" might be the way to go.
(I read that somewhere)
Good flames there, laotzu.
Accurate assessments are sometimes embarrassingly ridiculous. I was using diplomacy to write that, holding back literal definitions.
The people in charge when Reagan was nominated 33 years ago are......dead.
When did you last attend your county GOP meeting?
Yep. Go to my blog. See if you can find the address in the body of the thread.
What are you on about?
Good lord man do you think that when we talk about the Rockefeller/Romney wing of the GOP, the rino leadership of the GOP, the Karl Rove and Bob Dole, HW Bush wing of the GOP, we mean it has to be the same exact names that were in place in 1979, or 1969, or 1959, or 1989?
The rinos and the libertarian social agenda types are still there, it is still a fight between the conservative Reagan wing of the GOP and the rino Rockefeller wing, or to update it for you, the conservatives versus the Romney/Rove wing of the GOP.
bfl
I’m just trying to change the GOP the only way it can be changed, and the way Reagan was nominated which was and is from the grass roots.
Are you active in your local GOP chapter? Is your local GOP chapter active? If the answer to either of those questions is no, when you look in the mirror you’ll see where the current problem of RINOism begins in the GOP. Absence from the process implies agreement with the results.
If sitting around on FR griping could fix the GOP, it would already be fixed.
You are right about getting involved locally. Even state wide is ok. But my money goes to conservative candidates, not to national Republican groups. I learned my lesson with Charlie Crist.
Never again.
Good luck with the peanuts before the rain comes.
Only if you think lip service is reality.
I’m not a republican, have never been a republican, and freerepublic is not a republican site.
Appreciate your thoughts. I don’t give to the RNC either. To change the party requires working from the local level to the district level to the state level to the national party level.
Crist should have never been nominated for anything, and the Florida GOP being filled with doddering, senile Yankee RINOS allowed it to happen because of LACK OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE PARTY BY TRUE CONSERVATIVES OF WHICH FLORIDA HAS PLENTY! Sorry for yelling.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Then....pray tell me why you are commenting on a thread about the GOP.
On second thought, don’t bother because all you want to do is gripe and talk about people instead of offering any viable solutions.
>> Im not a republican, have never been a republican
No surprise there.
Thank you, but why did you cut off the words “”and freerepublic is not a republican site.””?
It is a grassroots organization. How do you think the RINOs took over?
The current crop of RINO neocons rode in with the Moral Majority as Reagan Democrats. Oh it was a joyous time and the tent was big. In my county’s chapter, there once were 20 people identifying with the MM. Now, there is one left. Let that sink in. ONE! About all of the allegedly former Democrats stayed while the Old Guard fell to their mortality. The neocons think they can outlast the TEA Partiers and the Liberty Caucus people who are now controlling most of the counties and the district, just like the MM who were “too pure” or more likely too lazy to continue.
So, are you going to try to help?
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