Posted on 03/23/2014 5:34:26 AM PDT by Moseley
I think the GOP-E defines it as:
80% of the issues = lower taxes on the wealthy
20% of the issues = everything else
So if I agree on lowering taxes, I should ignore every other belief I hold and vote for the guy who disagrees with me on ‘the 20%”...
And meanwhile, no GOP-E person will EVER support someone who disagrees with them on anything. Thus, when a conservative who agrees with me on 99% of things wins a primary, the GOP-E gets out the knives and slices him into little pieces while cheering his Democrat opponent.
No thanks. Not buying.
Another dig at veterans in support of the pro-abortion, anti-American Romney family.
Also, not voting for your pro-abortion liberalism to take over the GOP, doesn't mean conservatives are staying home.
Do you know how Mitt Romney reacted to Reagan’s ascendancy in the party and that wave of American patriotism and success?
Yes I do, here’s an informative read that covers the topic.
http://bluemassgroup.com/2006/12/romney-against-reagan-and-contract-with-america/
You’re a slow learner, aren’t you. I have expressed my voting philosophy on this thread, that’s all. I havn’t expressed any affection for Romney, quite the contrary.
What I have made clear to anyone who can read is that I don’t consider staying home on Election to be a worthy endeavor. It’s important to me to vote to deny the most destructive candidate a victory. In 2012, that candidate was Obama, not Romney. Only a fool would ignore it or deny it.
You’re going to need to find someone else to heap your pathetic insults on, I’m finished with you.
You keep repeating that people stayed home rather than vote for your anti-American, pro-abortion candidate, they didn’t, many just didn’t vote for your man, not enough to endorse his proabortion ads and coming out against the party’s pro-life platform.
The article you linked to didn’t cover half of Romney’s reaction to Reagan, your man left the party, in time he became a supporter and fund raiser for the democrats, and even voted for Tsongas in 1992, and didn’t return to the GOP until October of 1993.
Romney has spent years trying to create a myth that Reagan was “adamantly pro-choice”. Romney’s goal was to bury conservatism and get revenge for his lifetime of family slights from the Reagan/Palin wing of the GOP.
I will vote for the most conservative choice in the primaries.
I will vote for the most conservative choice in the general election.
To do anything otherwise is foolish.
My vote is my voice, and I will not be silenced.
Period.
End of story.
IMO, you’ve got it right, yours is the best way to approach every election, be it primary, general, or runoff. It comports well with the Buckley Rule.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/340485/print
“Settling for mediocrity” is one of the GOP’s central problems.
Show me your real plan to cut taxes, slash spending, reign in cronyism and corruption - and act on those plans once in office - and I'll vote for you. If you don't, I won't.
I'm beyond party now.
I want to be able to vote for "None of the Above".
At least the electorate would have the ability to reject the candidates proferred by the parties in toto, without getting stuck with "the lesser evil".
YMMV.
Precisely!
If the issue is lost (or sometimes won decisively), they let a few vote to please the hicks back home so they can trumpet their hometown cred come next election.
If it's close, the people lose.
I agree with your premise (How much poop in the soup before you call it poop soup?) but it’s polyticks, Gunner, when the dust settles you’re lucky to get 20% cake.
Too late!! We had a taste of what a real candidate, not just someone 'whose time has come', but someone who could light a fire in the belly of the electorate, and I for one, am done eating pablum and being told it is 3-alarm chilli.
My vote ISN'T automatic for anyone, and the GOPe can't count on me and others like me to vote the ticket, regardless of who is on it.
Independent. Hmmm? Bernie Sanders comes to mind and I’m betting you are about as far removed from his ideology as anyone, yet you claim independent status. Bernie is the face of the independent party and makes no bones about it. There is no one claiming an ideology for independents other than Bernie.
We have Independents, Democrats, and stay at home Republicans in ideology similar to independents, to thank for the two times elected face of tryannical Government, the lawbreaking, Constitution hating, race baiting, progressive Barak Obama.
Like it or not we have a two party system, so the idea should be, if the party isn’t to your liking, gather a group of like minded folks and at least attempt to get it back, lest we be forever gifted with politicians like the present occupant of the White House.
I suggest also a reading of the party platform to understand the fundamental differences in the two primary parties, and know that in many cases the platform is ignored by legislators who ought to know better, just as the Constitution itself is ignored by those who do not understand the meaning of an OATH.
What we have is a one party system now. Has been for quite some time. I have yet to see the Republicans repeal any legislation (even when they had the majority in both houses) that was passed by a democrat majority. They support the most irrational Dim legislative bills without a thought to their announced party line.
The Republican elites are in control and they are globalists. They follow the strides of international corporatism, after all that’s who pays their bills these days. They have no intention of ever reducing the size of government or any of the social programs.
You need to accept that the GOP is dead and gone. They hate the idea of the Tea Party standing up for the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. I am done with contributing to them.
So, what's the plan to keep another ultra-leftist out if we don't have a "solid" conservative on the ticket?
What does the Left do to earn your compliance as they take over the place?
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