Posted on 01/05/2015 3:36:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Fox News contributor and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.
“The alienation among Republican voters is so high,” says Caddell, that conservatively “a quarter to one-third of the Republican party are hanging by a thread from bolting.” Caddell argues that GOP voters’ attitudes are “so anti-establishment,” and they give Republican leadership poor ratings.
The revelation comes on the heels of polling data supervised by Caddell Associates and reported on Friday by Breitbart News that a stupefying 60% of Republicans who voted in the November elections either definitely or probably want someone other than Ohio Congressman John Boehner to be the Speaker of the House.
Caddell, who sharpened his teeth as a political consultant and pollster for President Jimmy Carter in 1976, has developed a reputation for being a straight shooting analyst, often criticized by his own party for predicting negative outcomes for Democrats.
His latest poll shows that Republican voters are reaching a tipping point and may have had enough of GOP lawmakers’ feckless leadership and constant submission to President Obama’s policies.
A frequent guest on the Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot radio program on channel 125, Caddell said that he will be releasing a new survey on Monday of 600 Republican identifiers or independents who voted Republican in November. In what Caddell refers to as a “stunner,” only 16% want “both” Boehner and imminent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to be their leaders.
Moreover, according to the survey, two-thirds agreed with the statement that “John Boehner has been ineffective in opposing Obama.”
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Need salt for that pretzel logic?
If there’s a mass exodus, it really doesn’t matter because we are all gone. They can then do what they like and they already are open about wanting conservatives to go bye bye. You conveniently forgot to mention that part in your devotions.
how many years have you been swallowing that?
Intelligent people do, eventually, wise up.
I left the party exactly three years ago this month. I'm right at the point of history where I'm teaching this topic to my 8th graders. When George Washington left office, on his own accord after two terms (a tradition that held until FDR -- a Democrat) he told America that there were two things that we as a nation must avoid like the plague.
#1. Foreign entanglement and alliances.
#2. Political parties.
We paid attention to the former for over 100 years, until Woodrow Wilson (another Democrat) dragged us into an utterly useless war where we weren't even needed for a positive outcome. An in a single year during the end of WWI, we lost over 100,000 troops. For nothing.
But it seems we had our skulls firmly inserted into the fourth point of contact concerning the latter admonition. Political parties emerged almost immediately.
Don't kid yourself that we will EVER be embracing any third party. Ain't gonna happen. The only thing any 3rd party is good for is to act as a spoiler. The only hope we have to avoid constant wins by RINOs is to allow the party to self destruct totally and try and rebuild a more conservative GOP in the interim time between election cycles.
You have to understand you are posting to the real world version of the robot kid in the movie “AI”. Specifically, the part where he stands before the statue of a blue fairy at an old amusement park praying over and over to make him a real boy until finally, after many years, he shuts down when his power source drains.
Today saw the return of several of the Romney faithful to FR threads on this mess after their long absence following the election. Or VERY limited appearances since at best. They always pop up when the GOP is ass deep in it’s own machinations to spread the same tired and discredited garbage that cost many conservatives primary wins.
Its their job. Its what they do and its the ONLY reason they are on a conservative website.
I only vote GOP if there’s no Constitution Party or independent candidate, though I’m still registered Pubby. (People always wonder why I’m not Libertarian, but I want a political party, not a cult religion.)
Easier and better to purge the establishment than start a new party.
Despite the likes of McConnell/Boehner, recent elections have proved beneficial to Conservatives and somewhat detrimental to the RINOs.
I generally vote Conservative then Republican — though, philosophically, I’m a conservative libertarian. Never have I, nor intend to, vote for any yahoo running on the often idiotic Libertarian Party ticket.
“Only the demise of the GOP will bring meaningful change. I support an obstructionist third party. Where is it?”
With respect, you’re not going to find positive change within partisan politics. At least at the national level. Its simply not to be had. The uniparty has been doing this for a very long time, and they’re very, very good at it.
Think of it as three card monte. You can try all sorts of different strategies, and you can change around the players. But you’re still playing three card monte, and you’re still going to lose. The only ways to “win” are to either (a) change the rules or (b) walk away and find another game. Since the uniparty controls the rules as well, that pretty much leaves (b).
I’m only staying registered as a Repub so i can vote in the primaries - jumping ship totally is a double-edged sword but might be the route to go in the near future.
Bush, Romney or Christie gets the nomination, and Cruz runs as a third party candidate.
But just nominating a RINO might do it. We're really pissed and the leadership has been exposed as collaborators.
They have demonized good Conservatives like Cruz calling evil of the party good and the good of the party evil if the good step off of "Masser Hierarchy's" political Plantation.
Post WW2 the GOP has only put one POTUS in office who was not controlled by that very Oligarchy. That of course was Reagan. The end result was the GOP and our nation each election cycle being taken further and further left. Today's GOP is far left of even JFK. The Bush clan was LBJ Part 2 yet they either won't admit it or as long as they have their comfy positions of power no matter how small they don't care.
Yeah but Norm, I will never directly donate to the GOP. I pick a candidate and bam, my money goes direct line to him/her.
I hate to see people donating directly to any party but it is their choice, just a bad one.
Never mistake malevolence for incompetence.
We are being led by two evil parties, into fascism / communism / slavery.
Yeah, and wasn't it so convenient and so wonderfully-timed that within months of Reagan assuming office, that he was shot in an assassination attempt?
I too was a loyal Republican since childhood. Not now.
At 62 years I left. The Republican brand is ruined. Here in northern California it’s a joke. I look forward to moving to Texas this summer. Then maybe on a state level I can happily pull the lever for R. Wow from Boxer and Feinstein to Cruz and Cornyn! Now that’s change you can believe in.
No doubt about it. Reagan wreaked havoc on the NWO Oligarchs playhouse. Why it took a better part of four years for the GOP-E to get it all screwed up again and back under Lobbyist control under Poppy. Of course that weren't Poppy's fault neither that he lost when he abandoned the Reagan Doctorines. It was that mean old Ross Perot what caused poor GOP-E Poppy an election dontcha know. That is according to the staunch GOP apologist anyway. Reagan's biggest mistake was having a Bush on his ticket. The betrayal came fast and the betrayals haven't stopped.
” Today saw the return of several of the Romney faithful to FR threads on this mess after their long absence following the election. Or VERY limited appearances since at best. They always pop up when the GOP is ass deep in it’s own machinations to spread the same tired and discredited garbage that cost many conservatives primary wins.
Its their job. Its what they do and its the ONLY reason they are on a conservative website.”
Bingo.
” What does the GOPe have to do before people get the picture? Vote 100% lockstep with the ‘rats? “
They already have......
1.1 trillion Porkulus.
Amnesty funded
Obamacare funded.
The UNIPARTY is fully functioning today.
” We are being led by two evil parties, into fascism / communism / slavery. “
Exactly
That’s what they are counting on. What is going on is the Libertarians are joining with the bog government Republicans to push the conservatives out the door. They don’t really care if if they loose in 20016. They have no core values, anyway. One party is as good as the next, as long as they can hold onto enough power to give their money people what they want.
What I am seeing is that Libertarians who interpret libertarianism as the freedom for Congress, not the people. ...a free for all for the Blacks, the Gays, the Muslims, the farmers, the Greens, the Palestinians and even the Russians.
Obama leads from behind, Rand Paul would not lead at all.
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