Posted on 04/09/2014 11:48:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The GOP-E cheats, and they hate you because you are a conservative.
/johnny
The GOP-E hates you because you are conservative. But they think they own your vote.
/johnny
So do you suggest we just stay in the two useless rotten corrupt two-party system we have now? Why?
With every passing year the gulf between me and the R’s becomes wider and deeper - and I more clearly see them for what they are. Democrats are worse, no doubt about it. But the two are so close as the difference is almost irrelevant.
It’s time to let the GOP die. Then burn the body and take the house and stuff away and start over with a conservative base and grow it back from there.
I don’t believe that’s true. AZ also was penalized; we had only 29 delegates; the others were able to attend but did not have a vote.
I am of that mindset now as well.
I don’t feel like conservatives have much say in anything the GOP does anymore, particularly choosing a candidate. Back in 2008 McLame had been chosen before I got a chance to vote.
So I get this mailer from Rand Paul a few days ago with a litany of questions focusing on the 2nd Amendment: “Do you support the 2nd Amendment!?” “Are you a red-blooded, He-man gun-grabber hater?” etc. and blah blah blah ...
To all of them, `Yes, yes, I do! I sure am!! etc.’
It finally got to the `short-strokes’ where he asks for a contribution (I suppose JEB will call it a `love-offering’ like passing the plate after a fire and brimstone sermon), I wrote, “Get serious about our southwestern border and I may get back to you. Try to be more of a conservative.”
Conservatives: No Mama, no Papa, no Party. GOP-e, feck `em.
You are wrong about the 1980 convention....this rule change would have prevented Reagan’s name from being entered in the 1976 convention
You are wrong about the 1980 convention....this rule change would have prevented Reagans name from being entered in the 1976 convention
I remember it well. They passed it by voice vote even though the Nays were louder.
I remember it well. They passed it by voice vote even though the Nays were louder.
Again, my state primary is scheduled for late May. As in 2008 and 2012, the nominee is usually determined weeks before that date. Thus, the state presidential primary is useless.
Not what I suggested at all. The current system is not sustainable, but will certainly not permit a 3rd party to have any say in it. Sit back, enjoy the Kabuki theater for however long our lords and masters can sustain it and be ready.
Remember, every single thing you believe is wrong with the system now has come about because the Constitution which we all claim to love has permitted it to happen or actively abetted it. More voting sure as hell is not any kind of solution any rational person can have faith in at this point.
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