Posted on 12/15/2014 4:15:42 PM PST by US Navy Vet
...I re-registered as an Independent today. Bye Bye GOP-e 4-Ever!
Congrats!
Good on you.
About to follow you.
You should take the time to inform the GOP why you did. I did just that every time they sent me a solicitation for cash donations. If we all did that they might finally get it.
Congrats. I did it three presidential election cycles ago.
Good on you. The GOP has been dead to me since 2012. I would be happy if conservatives could form their own party, but it probably won’t happen. Tough getting enough money to wage campaigns with any hope of winning.
Now if the few conservatives left in the party could somehow topple the party’s liberal regime, maybe I’ll come back. But it doesn’t look likely in the foreseeable future.
Anyway, enjoy your freedom. I am.
Did it around a year ago.
I will rejoin after I can take a bodacious Obama on the graves of the GOP House and senate leaders.
As much as that has to feel good, it also removes your opportunity to at least TRY to stop the bleeding.
As a registered Republican my first vote as a Texan was for Cruz in the preliminaries (when he “didn’t have a chance”).
But if it is cleansing then more power to you.
Good for you! Now you can join the ranks of those who choose to vote the direction the political wind blows...........
I thought about that too, but I want to vote against any GOPe’s in the primary so I am still registered (R).
But my votes will definitely go against the e’s.
GO NAVY — loved that Army-Navy game!
We don’t have party registration in Michigan but I do wonder what happens with redistricting in places that do have it.
I’m one step behind you.
Doesn’t that mean only that you can’t vote for conservative candidates in the primary? e.g. Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin if they ran.
When it comes to voting, at least in a closed primary it will.
There are like 50 3rd parties, none will ever achieve squat in our system. The last election cycle we were inundated here on FR with all the people that were going to make the Constitution Party relevant. How'd that work out? Hint: the completely irrelevant Green party got 4 times the votes as the Constitution Party did.
“Voters in the state of Texas do not have to publicly identify themselves as a member of a political party when they register to vote. When they go to the polls they can freely choose either the Republican ticket or the Democratic ticket.
However, voters cannot vote across party lines. Once a person chooses the ticket they will vote on they can only decide between candidates of that party. Voters in Texas receive a new voter registration card every year so they don’t have to vote on the same ticket each primary election.”
Made a big car small and a small car big???
Good for you. I just wish there was an actual party we could chose to be a member of.
Always voted GOP yet have never “registered” as a party. My Texas Voter Registration card requires no such choice thus I go conservative best in the primaries and against the socialist democrat in general elections.
Personally I am loyal to conservative values not people who say they are conservative yet perform like a liberal or moderate socialist. Be they someone we chose yesterday by accident or someone we choose tomorrow on purpose if they stray from conservative values we are not obligated to keep supporting them or staying quiet about their performance.
..... Thus the reason I vote on ones record versus ones promises. Anything less is IMHO a risky bet at best. Such as the lesser of two evils concepts we are usually presented during an election. No polidiot is perfect, no polidiot deserves blind silent devotion. Politics has a human element as we all know and is fallible to the nth degree. Constant attention to it’s every act is the effort that must be maintained to preserve our beloved republic and liberty.
Just my opinion of course.
Stay safe !
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