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I will support any 3rd party conservative. Screw the GOP. We have irreconcilable differences. The GOP is just out for power and not the people or the republic.

4 posted on 05/07/2012 9:08:20 PM PDT by jimpick

27 posted on 05/07/2012 10:05:24 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)

Well, it might as well be a fellow FReeper:

http://www.tomhoefling.com/index.html

31 posted on 05/07/2012 10:10:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Romney Republicanism: The blind leading the blind, over a cliff, into the political abyss.)

Blaming "the party" is a copout, because "the party" really isn't anything more than the people who comprise it. The problem in this election cycle wasn't "the party elites", but the lack of a good conservative candidate. As a result, the majority conservatives within the party split their votes, including some who voted for Romney based on their hatred of Obama and a belief, right or wrong, that he was the most likely to defeat Obama.

I supported Newt, but I wasn't blind to his flaws as a candidate, and could understand why others wouldn't support him. That's just the way it was this election cycle. But 2010 proved that the majority of the GOP (regardless of the leadership) will support good conservative candidates in the primary.

Taking our ball home and sulking in the corner just means we will have no chance to nominate a good candidate in 2016. If a significant number of conservatives abandon the GOP to go 3rd party, the resultant GOP nominee will be less conservative, and those conservatives left will be far too few to gain a plurality in the election. After all, if they are enough to gain a plurality in a general election, then they certainly would be enough to pick a conservative nominee in the GOP.

The lesson to draw from this election isn't that "the GOP-E" has ruined the party, but rather that we need to have better candidates at the national level.

111 posted on 05/08/2012 5:54:21 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin

I will support any 3rd party conservative. Screw the GOP. We have irreconcilable differences. The GOP is just out for power and not the people or the republic.

I'l go for Romney, because voting 3rd party is a vote for the MARXIST. We need to unite behind Romney and defeat OBUMMER.

if we are going to give up, the constitution will be trampled on by OBUMMER!!

140 posted on 05/08/2012 10:59:33 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)

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