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Get Rid of the Republican Establishment, Once and for All
GOP USA ^ | 12/27/2012 | Matt Towery

Posted on 12/27/2012 1:20:29 PM PST by IbJensen

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To: Longbow1969

The problem for “third party” voters is they haven’t stopped to think about the quality of the person they’re voting for. These people have a serious personality defect or they wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing. They cannot win and they know it and they’re doing it for their ego. If these folks are so perfect, why don’t they simply stay in the Republican party, where they might actually win? They are not worthy of a wasted vote—they are just as flawed as any Republican candidate.


61 posted on 12/27/2012 4:53:43 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: IbJensen

Great idea. Let the Democrats have the next fifty years as the majority party in both Houses, AND the White House while we promote the new party and propagate the message.


62 posted on 12/27/2012 4:58:37 PM PST by Little Ray (Get back to work. Your urban masters need their EBTs refilled.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
they are just as flawed as any Republican candidate.

A republican who is in it for the ego, and will lose.

You vote for an egotistical loser that is a liberal, and that's ok.

I vote for an egotistical loser that is conservative, and that's not ok.

Got it. You would rather be GOP than conservative.

I find GOP cheerleaders with their bashing and negativity to be annoying.

/johnny

63 posted on 12/27/2012 4:59:18 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Longbow1969

What I am “babbling” about is your single minded devotion to moving America left, that is why I posted what you quoted.

“”Amazing, we are only weeks past your last disaster as you lost the presidency to Jimmy Carter the II, with your liberalism, and already you are fighting to make sure that the candidate four years from now will be another liberal.””

You are a one note johnny, always fighting the tea party and conservatives, and promoting the Rockefeller/Romney part of the GOP.


64 posted on 12/27/2012 5:02:01 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney--guns not for recreation or self-defense"sole purpose of hunting down and killing people".)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Well, you have no plan to win an election. If I have to support a RINO to defeat the Dim, I'm willing to do it, if I can have a hard-core conservative, I'm all for that, too. I don't know what we're going to have to do but I am highly suspicious of ANYONE who claims they know why Romney lost because I don't believe them.

I hope it can all be explained to be because of voter fraud, but I don't know that, either. Maybe between voter fraud and those who either stayed home, or voted "third party", things may have been different.

We MUST stop this circular firing squad. We have primaries to choose our candidates. I will ALWAYS support the party's nominee because I despise Democrats far more than I despise Republicans.

65 posted on 12/27/2012 5:03:43 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: JRandomFreeper

There is no point in going through all this to deliberately lose. I want to defeat Democrats. Always vote for the most conservative of the choices. In the primary, vote for the most conservative but then in the general, again, always vote for the most conservative and that will always be the Republican.


66 posted on 12/27/2012 5:09:22 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
If I have to support a RINO to defeat the Dim, I'm willing to do it,

Bull, you are devoted to promoting it.

You are another one note johnny who's only message is to keep moving left, stay away from conservatism.

You aren't 'settling' for rinos, you are here to promote them.

67 posted on 12/27/2012 5:09:41 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney--guns not for recreation or self-defense"sole purpose of hunting down and killing people".)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
We MUST stop this circular firing squad.

Won't happen while you are willing to support a liberal.

Personally, I despise liberals, no matter which party.

I do know that Romney would be caving on 'assault weapons' if he had won, just like he did as governor.

So either way, I wind up with someone that wants to take my freedom away.

No thanks.

/johnny

68 posted on 12/27/2012 5:09:55 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Longbow1969

Truth is nobodies kicking so cons out. They want to win the presidency? Fine. Put up or shut up. The Gop is already working on it....Jindal...Rubio..Jeb...all I hear from the far right is whining...”not good enough...I’m leaving” Find a candidate who can win. Nobodies stopping you. But if the best you got is Palin/West...don’t waste everyone’s time.


69 posted on 12/27/2012 5:11:30 PM PST by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Longbow1969
If you want my vote and the votes of an increasing number of actual conservatives, nominate candidates worth voting for. If you won't do that, if you insist on nominating greedocrats in elephant suits, if you and your worthless GOP-E polo player candidates don't care about the babies, marriage, economic freedom for ordinary folks of modest income, military issues, veterans, and other issues worth caring about, then again the GOP can go straight to hell where it belongs.

As to "likely voters," I have never failed to vote in 44 years. I am just not voting any longer for the trash that the GOP-E vomits up onto our ballots by buying nominations as Mittler did. I also note that you only see fit to reference "socialism" as though only money mattered. You will sweep the polo players and the art afficionados and the charity contributor tax dodgers. Good luck finding a majority by appealing only to such voters.

Don't hold your breath waiting for me to come back to be used by the GOP-E and its useless Demonrat-lite candidates.

70 posted on 12/27/2012 5:18:35 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society. Broil 'em now!!!)
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To: Blackirish
But if the best you got is Palin/West...don’t waste everyone’s time.

If the best you have is Romney, don't waste my time.

/johnny

71 posted on 12/27/2012 5:19:21 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: ansel12
ansell, you are willing to LIE to make your point. I do not promote liberalism, I hate it. But neither you, nor I get to appoint who we want to win. The candidate must win an election by defeating the Democrat.

You can never find an instance where I promote a RINO. I repeatedly say, my goal is to defeat Democrats and I'll use whomever I need to to do it. There is no other way to advance a conservative agenda. If we continue to wait for the perfect, the RATS will have 100% control of everything.

72 posted on 12/27/2012 5:22:03 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Longbow1969
There's ALWAYS an establishment in a political party. You can replace it with a group of people you like better, but then they become the establishment.

True enough. We got rid of the Eastern Liberal Establishment Rockefeller Republicans over the years. Now new people, a lot of them who started out at the bottom sending out letters and answering phones for Bush or Dole or McCain, are the new establishment or elite. I guess Romney being his father's son obscures the changes, but throw out today's elite and you'll see another spring up soon enough with the same complaints attached to different names.

73 posted on 12/27/2012 5:25:48 PM PST by x
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

You are the one lying, and you do it every time that you deny that your goal is promoting rinos.

You are devoted to it on this thread, always trying to block conservatism and promote rinoism,

We are only weeks after a devastating example of how a rino loses even when it is impossible to lose, and what are you doing? Fighting to maintain rinoism for 2014 and 2016.


74 posted on 12/27/2012 5:29:31 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney--guns not for recreation or self-defense"sole purpose of hunting down and killing people".)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I do know that Romney would be caving on 'assault weapons' if he had won, just like he did as governor.

Romney is more than a conservative hating rino, he is something of a psycho.

" “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

75 posted on 12/27/2012 5:34:21 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney--guns not for recreation or self-defense"sole purpose of hunting down and killing people".)
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To: IbJensen
Well let's do it. If the Repubs embrace illegal immigration .and homo marriage, which they will, they are history.

need savvy media techs and CONSTITUTIONAL candidates

76 posted on 12/27/2012 5:35:27 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: ansel12

My goal is to defeat Democrats any way I have to do it. You confuse it as promoting RINOS—it is not. I see no virtue in deliberately losing to a Democrat—ever!! Again, my goal is to defeat Democrats!! Do you think it more virtuous to wait for a perfect candidate than to try to stop a Democrat? I don’t. Democrats are the epitome of evil and they must be stopped at every opportunity. You go ahead and help Democrats if you think that is the right thing to do but I will NEVER do anything to allow a Democrat a clear path to further their tyranny.


77 posted on 12/27/2012 5:48:24 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
I do not promote liberalism, I hate it. But neither you, nor I get to appoint who we want to win. The candidate must win an election by defeating the Democrat.

And that candidate must win a primary by garnering a majority of votes from people who cast ballots in GOP primaries. There is a wide range of people in this group and the candidate we like best won't often win and become the nominee. If you listen to the foolishness on this thread, that means we should stomp our feet and have a temper tantrum.

I've read your posts for a long time Conservativegreatgrandma and I know you are simply a realist. Some of these folks shouting at you are not politically serious people. On political forums like this you have to accept there are always going to be some loud mouths who talk a big game but accomplish nothing.

In the primaries, vote for the most conservative candidate that CAN win a general election. That means its pointless to vote for candidates, no matter how much we like their policy positions, if they have no chance to win against their Democrat opponent. In general elections, with very few exceptions, always vote for the Republican - even if you don't like that too terribly much. General elections are NOT an affirmative endorsement of a candidate (that is what primaries are for), they are a choice between the only 2 candidates that can win. It's really that simple.

78 posted on 12/27/2012 6:02:15 PM PST by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969
...you are going to have to accept that a large portion of the party members are not very conservative and simply don't agree with a lot of us conservatives on FR.

Perhaps you can explain to me why I would wish to affiliate myself with people who do not agree with my political philosophy. That one just goes right by me.

79 posted on 12/27/2012 6:04:08 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: BlackElk
I cannot tell you how liberating it was in 2012 to not vote for either major party candidate for the first time in a long adult life.

I'm right there with you. John McCain is the last liberal I will ever have voted for. - that doesn't sound grammatical but you know what I mean.

80 posted on 12/27/2012 6:04:24 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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