Screw the GOP, They Don't Seem to Want My Vote Anyway

http://libertarian-neocon.blogspot.com/2012/04/screw-gop-they-dont-seem-to-want-my.html ^ | libertarian neocon

[fieldmarshaldj]

Screw Willard AND his Socialist R’bot groupies.

[zeugma]

I’ve been considering voting Newt in the upcoming Texas primary. I may have to rethink that, because you can’t sign a petition for the LP to get on the ballot if you’ve voted in another primary. Damn.

[libertarian neocon]

Please take a look at the history of Romney’s judicial appointments and get back to me.

[Keith in Iowa]

If you are suggesting voting for the lesser of two evils, well - you can stuff that where the sun don’t shine. A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. I refuse to vote for evil.

[zeugma]

Many, maybe most here on FR believe they are too squishy on immigration, drugs and foreign policy.

There is a great deal of variance amongst Libertarians on the 1st and 3rd items you mention. I'll have to look this guy up, and start doing some research on what's happening in the LP in Texas. I'm mostly libertarian, but generally not Libertarian, if you take my meaning.

[delapaz]

If it really is a matter of life or death as you say, then we’re done for, as Romney will not govern materially different than Obama in any case.

Since I’m over the top cynical/pessimist, I’m voting for Obama, because I expect Armageddon, and I’d rather have a Democrat to blame when it all goes down.

A Democrat executive and a GOP legislature is probably the best case scenario for us going forward. So hold your nose and vote for the real Kenyan, not the white one.

[joe fonebone]

I would rather play isolationist for 4 years than play socialist or communist.... I am a small l libertarian, and will be voting the libertarian party. Now, imagine what would happen if all the pissed off so called conservatives said the hell with the pubs and voted libertarian!!! They might even take a coupla states... THAT would be the shot heard round the world...

[WhiskeyX]

List the conservative appointments versus liberal appointments made by Romney while he’s been Governor of the State of Massachusetts.

[chris_bdba]

That would be one huge vote for Obama because 3rd party votes will re elect Obama.

[JRandomFreeper]

I won't vote for any liberal, and that includes Romney.

I will also campaign against all liberals, and vote for a conservative.

And I heard the same over-the-top fear mongering when Clinton was up for re-election and the GOP pushed a moderate.

Get over it.

/johnny

[MileHi]

Gary Johnson will govern this country, the way it should be governed.

No he won't. He would have to be elected to do that.

[JRandomFreeper]

No, GOP dirty tricks, rule changes, attacks on conservatives, and putting up a liberal will get Obama re-elected.

Anyone that voted for McCain let the GOP know that it's ok to keep moving left.

/johnny

[mikeus_maximus]

INCORRECT: they DO want your vote. That's why they slap the "Conservative" label, or at least embrace what the media gives them, every election cycle, on candidates like Bob Dole, GB I & II, Juan McCain, Romney... and hope you're dumb enough to fall for it.

I see you're not.

[Boonie]

If the entire conservative core of our country feel as those I am reading in this thread feel, then we’re handing the second term to Barry Soetoro on a gilded platter....

[JRandomFreeper]

No, the GOP handed Obama a second term when they destroyed the conservatives, cheated by changing the rules, and dirty tricks with a complicit media and pushed a liberal.

/johnny

[aruanan]

Anyone that voted for McCain let the GOP know that it's ok to keep moving left.

/johnny

So go work at the grassroots level of the GOP wherever you live with other like-minded people and take it over and then move up to the next level. That's how the leftists did it to the Democrat Party over a period of 30 years. They didn't just sit around on their asses whining about the party not being far enough left for them and not wanting their vote and that they were going to go out and start their own really, really far left party.

[JRandomFreeper]

The problem is that the party elites own the rule book. And when a real conservative shows up, they change the rules or otherwise sideline them.

So that can't work. They are entrenched on the high ground with the firepower. Doesn't matter how many grass-roots are conservative.

Only way to beat them is to bypass them and starve them out by not rewarding them with votes for their liberal candidates.

/johnny

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“then we’re handing the second term to Barry Soetoro on a gilded platter....”

I’ve heard many say that that is what should happen which will bring about total collapse.

That may be desirable so that the rebuilding process or Rev. II can begin.

[Mountain Mary]

Most Republicans are not conservative...they are Rinos and will vote as they are TOLD.

True conservatives get it..and mostly, they are the ones who are standing up for truth.

A vote for Romney is a vote against conservatism and for linguine spined moderate Republican stances.

But never fear, Boonie. Unfortunately, there are not enough of us willing to come forward. We are still the Silent Majority...ie the Sleeping Giant is still sleeping..

[aruanan]

Looking over your screed I notice that you don't talk about doing anything other than eating what's put on your plate or bitching about it. After a while you need to grow up and start to do the cooking yourself--HINT, that means get involved with the actual organization of the Republic Party instead of thinking that voting for whoever is presented to you by that party is the extent of your duty to the party. That's only reacting. If you don't like the organization, get involved and change it from the inside out. That's the only way it's going to happen. It worked for leftists in taking over the Democrat Party. It took them decades, but they did it. They've already made encroachments on the Republican Party, too. But the answer you and others seem to propose is to abandon the Republican Party and make it all the easier for them. Then you'll have two large leftist parties and all the other tiny things like the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Temperance Party, etc..