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Anyone....?
Anyone....?
Bueller...?
Duh...
[Raises Hand] Yup, been there done that.
If the Republicans allow/aid in the passage of amnesty, the party is DEAD.
Got a fundraising postcard from RNC today asking why I hadn’t donated yet.
I took the card and wrote “If you pass anmesty, I am done with you...GROW A PAIR”...and mailed in back in their postage paid envelope.
I hope they get a zillion of those.
Give me a good alternative, and I’m ready to leave.
Finally, a study that gets it right. We’re not voting for politicians we can’t trust anymore. I’ve come to accept that if the RNC lauds a candidate, that person can’t be trusted.
I think this is a pretty good assessment. Anybody think Reince Priebus (Prince Grieveus) gives a damn?
If you track votes cast for each party’s presidential candidates not as a percentage of votes cast, but as a percentage of eligible voters, over the last 30 years, an interesting phenomena appears:
The percentage of votes cast for the Democratic candidate has been pretty much flat - growing slowly from 23% to 25%.
The percentage of votes cast for the Republican candidate ranges all over the place, from a over 30% for Reagan to less than 20% for Dole.
What is going on is clear - 25% of voters will always vote Dem. 20% of voters will always vote DOP. 10% will either vote GOP or stay at home, and 45% will always stay at home.
For the GOP to win, it needs to reach out the folks who’d never vote for a Democrat, but who might vote for the right Republican, but if he isn’t right they’ll stay home.
The problem is that what attracts these sometimes-GOP voters is just as anathema to the professional functionaries of the GOP as it is to the Dems.
the RNC’s decision to use political consultants was “a perfect example of everything they are doing wrong.”
Bingo: only place a windsock is helpful is on the airfield/flight deck.
No, for me its not about the lesser of two evils.
I’m tired of Repubs who help implement the Dems’ agenda at a discount and giving them “bipartisan” cover.
I’m tired of Repubs who talk a good game until the vote that counts, and then they find some conservative-sounding reason to betray their supposed principles and us.
I’ve figured out how phony conservatives are able to maintain their “conservative rating” while betraying us when it counts. Not falling for it anymore.
When you live in the real world of imperfect humans, you have to choose between the lesser of evils sometimes. But you don’t have to keep voting for people who betray you. Better the enemy in front of you than the enemy who is eating at your table and living in your camp.
We have a few dedicated romneybots that still rage and spew their garbage, they won’t be happy to see that their single pro-Romney argument is so ineffective.
/johnny
i have said this many times ( and been ridiculed here on this site many times )...
if you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil..
McCain was the last of my “lesser of two evils”.
Unfortunately, there are some people out there who ignore their own intuition, common sense, and anecdotal evidence in support of maintaining their own beliefs regarding things, until a study comes along. Even then it’s no guarantee it will get through to them, but here’s hoping. I think it has to be accepted though that there are RINO true-believers that are terminally brainwashed and unreachable, and the best we can do right now is farewell them on their journey to oblivion.
Where is the opposition to today's leadership in America?
The Republican Party's leadership does not oppose Democrats. They sometimes voice disagreement as to tactics and strategy. But today's so-called Republican "leaders" obviously lack the courage to publicly disagree with Progressive beliefs, and would surely rather slit their own wrists than ever risk the adoption of firm and immoveable principles, much less develop the language with which to defend them.
It is so much to go along and get along with the Devil than to call him by his name and risk all, once one has decided that human life is of no particular moment, that virtue is nothing more than a silly social construct devoid of meaning, and that Eternity is an abstraction best left to theoretical academicians and polemical priests.
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Bueller...?
The only difference between the results of this study and my own opinion about why I left the Republican Party is they filtered out the expletives.
Quite a few folks were turned off by the shut out of Ron Paul at the convention, and I’m talking about folks who weren’t even Ron Paul supporters.
They thought he had earned the right to speak. The rules change reminded them of the elitism they expect from Democrats.
Omne of the main reasons I vote for a Republican is to keep a Democrat out of office. However, I have voted third party or write-in as a protest vote, and can see myself doing that more often in the future. The GOP jumped the shark by stabbing its base in the back. ‘F ‘em!