Time to replace the GOP
Let me think about it.
Not buying it.
The GOP is composed of a collection of limp-wristed do nothings whose shortcomings are exceeded only by the even more talentless “things” currently living in the cesspool called the democratic party.
I have withdrawn my membership from the GOP and will no longer give them any funds. Perhaps we have to enter the full stall and go into a spin for a while, but we’ve got no choice, given the lack of talent, ability, creativity and morality of both parties.
Hopefully, we can pull out of the soon to come spin before CW-II starts.
Jonah’s flat-out wrong here with respect to the GOP - the party has no use for conservatives, outside of demanding “tribute” in the way of votes and donations. If left to its own devices, the party would not make any push in favor of any significant conservative causes.
He’s right about the number of hucksters in the conservative orbit, though — I’d lump Hannity and the Huckster himself in this category, and Coulter has become more of a saleslady for the party than for conservatism.
Jonah’s flat-out wrong here with respect to the GOP - the party has no use for conservatives, outside of demanding “tribute” in the way of votes and donations. If left to its own devices, the party would not make any push in favor of any significant conservative causes.
He’s right about the number of hucksters in the conservative orbit, though — I’d lump Hannity and the Huckster himself in this category, and Coulter has become more of a saleslady for the party than for conservatism.
But we (rightly, I think) believe they are just looking for anything that will keep them in power. Minority power is OK as long as they hold office. So we don't trust them to have the right goal, and we don't accept their compromise.
I'll grow up, Jonah, when I'm certain I'm playing with adults.
The GOP and conservatives especially don’t really have a future and this is why.
WHITE VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
2012: 72% of electorate, Romney 59, Obama 39
2008: 74% of electorate, McCain 55, Obama 43
2004: 77% of electorate, Bush 58, Kerry 41
2000: 81% of electorate, Bush 55, Gore 42
1996: 83% of electorate, Dole 46, Clinton 44 (Perot 9)
1992: 87% of electorate, Bush 41, Clinton 39 (Perot 21)
1988: 85% of electorate, Bush 60, Dukakis 40
1984: 86% of electorate, Reagan 66, Mondale 34
1980: 88% of electorate, Reagan 56, Carter 36 (Anderson 8)
1976: 89% of electorate, Ford 52, Carter 48
AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC WHITE VOTE SHARE: 40.6%
Sorry, Jonah. You may have missed it, but the party just ran a Progressive Democrat for President and dragged the party to the electoral depths in the process.
He was enabled in this process by a party leadership and apparatus determined to choke off conservative opposition. The Speaker of the House threatened conservative members with, in essence, desertion by the national party for daring to commit the sin of representing their constituents.
Republican leadership is a weak-kneed, vacillating mass of moderation and 'compromise', deliberately out of touch with the populist wave that catapulted it into national influence.
Rockefeller Republicans have not been purged from the Republican Party. In essence, they ARE the Republican Party.
Jonah Goldberg is yet another example of nepotism destroying conservatism.
The Fox News Green Room is a generator of RINO isotopes that weaken the will and corrode faith in conservative principles...
...nah, just more money in being a GOP-e sellout and JG ain't selling as many books as before...freekin' hypocrite.
and this is the money line...
The good is obvious. The ill is less understood. For starters, the movement has an unhealthy share of hucksters eager to make money from stirring rage, paranoia and an ill-defined sense of betrayal with little concern for the real political success that can only come with persuading the unconverted.
my case in point is the fubocare ruling...
while fubocare sucks, and i detest it, this ruling was a victory for constitution minded people everywhere, if it was just read and examined..
the talking heads on the radio proclaimed that we were betrayed, and that we lost, that the people who are actually helping fight off the libs are traitors..
I believe this attitude in turn spawned a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, and that people decided that going to the polls would do nothing to help, so they decided to just stay home...
Now, if the talking heads had stated this law sucks, but went on to reveal the bars of gold hidden in this ruling, the people would instead have realized that the good fight is being fought, that we have people who are dedicated to returning to constitutionalism, and that sometimes you need to take a step back in order to go forward, the masses may have turned out to vote, and we just may have been able to overturn fubocare, keeping the bars of gold in the ruling intact..
but, the talking heads have ratings to uphold, and they mean far more than the advancement of conservative principals....
you have been betrayed, not by roberts, but by the talking heads who are indeed entertainers first, republicans second, and everything else follows....
Boehner and McConnell are pathetic.
Jonah needs to get a major clue. In the House of Representatives, where Conservatives are hanging on by their fingernails, you can count on the fingers of both hands the number of Reps that have the balls to do what needs to be done.
The national GOP is next to worthless. They didn’t stand up on Bengahzi, they didn’t stand up on the fiscal cliff and it looks like they won’t stand up on the debt limit. What else is there? Worthless SOBs.
I’m sure the GOP doesn’t like hearing that kind of talk. Too bad they won’t be honest. Even with themselves.
The GOP is begging us to replace them.
Jonah is just another blind insider. The country would be vastly better off if Washington D.C. and it’s destructive legislation disappeared.
In other words, the GOP exists today to ensure the GOPs continued existance tomorrow. To that end they would gladly sell their souls. Or throw their conservative constituents under the bus.
We've gotten about as far as we can with politics and politicians.
Don't let all the defeats, surrenders and sell outs fool you.
Fixed.
Jonah is absolutely full of it. I’ve read Before the Storm, about the 1960 campaign, and right now I’m reading The Crusader, a bio of Pat Buchanan and his runs for the presidency. Both books fully and clearly establish the weak, cowardly moderation that infects the GOP. They document the inescapable fact that Republicans are deeply embarrassed by and ashamed of true conservatives. It’s always been this way.
Rush said it a while back.....the Republican party has always contained conservatives, but it has never BEEN a conservative party.
Political change IS underway through a 4+ decade barrage and infestation by New Left Democrats who openly have a hard on for Communist dictatorships. The media, academia, and DNC stinks of their rhetoric.
It became "a scandal" to call out Communists at some point in this country. Those who say it is scandalous are among the red dupes who are blind to the problems of Socialist Utopian visions. As if the rhetoric and "lists" regarding gun owners is somehow more "well intentioned" than the outing of traitors in the State Department in coordination with the Soviet Union.