Trouble Brewing in GOP

Townhall.com ^ | March 19, 2013 | David Limbaugh

[Resettozero]

Expect them to be slandered in the media, and by the Soros trolls here on FR.

Yes, they are here, waiting to pounce. FR has an cadre of posters who seem organized and ready to disrupt, mislead, vilify other posters, and diminish the value of some threads and subjects they want to see discussed only their way on FR or not at all.

On the other hand, conservative FReepers who wish to become more influential again in the Republican Party talk of bolting instead of resisting the GOPe portion of the RP, like "the Soros DNC" and others resist the openness, the freedom, of posting on Free Republic.

Often, I've been guilty of wanting to punish the RP somehow but that is too easy, since I never ever considered myself a member of the RP. Just registered that way to vote for conservative candidates in primaries.

As long as conservatives are divided over who are the actual conservative national leaders, and heads turned by the New Conservative Persons of the Month, we may expect the same results we've been getting. And that's bad for the USA.

And...I regret that FR has become dependent on the donations of non-conservatives and pretend-conservatives.

[TexasFreeper2009]

what is wrong with condemning an action as sinful and immoral and yet acknowledging that someone has the freedom to do it if they wish?

[Rational Thought]

One thing which continues to strike me is the assumption by most that Obama is the driving force behind all the socialistic changes being implemented. I have never viewed this guy as being as clever (politically) as he’s usually given credit. Instead, he continues to have plenty of help from many within the Republican Party.

[randita]

A libertarian faction is on the rise in both major parties. It remains to be seen how much influence that faction will have in its respective parties.

Although the GOP has major internal issues, so do the Democrats.

For Democrats, the money is running out and you have unions fighting against Democrat governors and city mayors (Detroit, Chicago, and Philly, e.g.). Democrats can only keep their disparate coalitions together when there is sufficient $$$ to dole out to all. When there are only scraps left, the teeth are bared and the viciousness begins.

[Jim Noble]

I haven't seen a church (other than Islam) this extreme in years

Fifty or so, to be precise - but this was exactly the situation, right here in America, the year I was born and for all the years in Christendom for more than a thousand years.

The term "traditional" doesn't usually mean "whatever has happened in the last few years that I happen to like".

[ThePatriotsFlag]

“Republican” has become the “Democrat-Lite” party.

[Kaslin]

Both my husband and I have TRICare and are both on Medicare. Neither one has signed up for Part D and I am sure those who have, have to pay a fee that is deducted from their Social Security. Both my husband and I have part A and B which is both deducted from our SS.

[listenhillary]

Wrong on issues like a promised first budget that removes the department of education?

[greene66]

If the GOP jumps on the deviancy bandwagon and accepts homo marriage, it deserves to die as a Party. And I’d be the first to contribute bullets for its execution.

[listenhillary]

How about the DHS while the Republicans had full control? Great idea or a poor idea?

[Timber Rattler]

That may be true at present, but they’re in very small numbers in the USCP. A big infusion of pissed-off, motivated, erstwhile GOP conservatives would overwhelm the defeatists’ numbers.

Something similar happened in the Libertarian Party in early 2008, when a large number of pissed-off Conservatives departed the Republican Party (because of McCain, Romney, Huck, etc.) and joined the Libertarian Party and attempted to do just that, much to the horror of old-line, ex-hippie Libertarians, who still wanted to hang their hats on drug legalization, open borders, appeasement and pacifism, and abortion. That's how Bob Barr ended up being its nominee for the 2008 election, thanks to the brand new Conservative wing of the Libertarian Party.

An internal civil war ensued soon after that election and the liberal wing won, causing many of the disaffected Conservatives to do a second exodus, this time into Independent status. Consequently, for 2012, the Libertarian Party ran a platform based heavily on drug legalization and open borders, and descended back down into complete irrelevancy. In the meantime, the disaffected Independent Conservatives refused to have anything to do with Romney and stayed home in large numbers on election day, making a huge point that the GOP-E is refusing to acknowledge at its own mortal peril.

The Libertarian Party Takes a Hard Right Turn

[cripplecreek]

I'm doing something on my own because I'm tired of waiting for others to step up and government doesn't do solutions.

Next week I'm having dinner with a black neighbor who fled Detroit in 67 and a pastor and his mother from a Detroit church. The pastor wants to hear what it was like to grow up white, rural, and poor in a single parent home so he can build a series of sermons about how similar people are despite vast differences. There is also a possibility of going to the church myself in the future to meet the folks after the reverend lays some groundwork. I'm also looking at creating some conservative themed motivational posters for the pastor with conservative quotes.

"No one who lived through the great depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion".

-Ronald Reagan.

[GBA]

I remember reading "Never trust anyone over 30" in MAD magazine, as a little kid in the 60s, and not fully getting the joke.

I was reminded of that when it hit me that I barely trust anyone in Congress who got there before 2010, if even then.

Of the few who haven't obviously sold their souls, they act like they can't do anything they know they should do, like someone has something on them, dirt or deals, or they're under orders.

The newbies seem to be a bit less restricted, still connected to the money and folks from back home...so far.

Impeachment would feel good right about now.

2014 can't come soon enough.

[Resettozero]

Informative and succinct post.

[TArcher]

 its refusal to live up to its decidedly conservative platform.

 

The GeeOpie hasn't had an actual conservative platform for a long time.   It's become a canoe for ferrying RINOs across the River Styx whilst the infestation of inbred pervert fiscal "conservative" termites eat the woodwork out from under them.

 

 

"Ohhhhho say can you seee...."

 

Eyes Wide Shut

"8-1984 - Lawrence King [Homosexual and alleged Pedophile] throws a lavish party in Dallas, Texas, after singing the National Anthem at the Republican National GOP Convention."

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=Lawrence+king+singing+pedophile+franklin&oq=Lawrence+king+singing+pedophile+franklin

 

http://www.franklincase.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=9

[Kaslin]

It probably wouldn’t have been necessary at least not to the extreme that it is. If 9/11 had not happened, for which you can thank Billy Jeff

[Redleg Duke]

You are correct. We need to focus on the local Republican organizations and retake the party from the roots up.

That is the only way to cut off the Dem-Lites who currently run the GOP.

[odawg]

I can go to the local court house and make copies of my ancestors’ marriage licenses dating back to the 1840s, long before Jim Crow laws.

[GailA]

the spineless gop leadership has gotten to cushy with the perks of office they don’t want to give up. If the senate has a free barber shop then you can bet that the house does too. And with nearly 5 times the need for hair cuts. Since there are more women in the house, then is there a beauty shop for them that we are paying for?

These people are rich enough to afford such items as hair cuts and salon services out of their OWN POCKETS. We pay them to much as it is, and when you add up all the perks it probably nearly doubles their salaries.

I resent having to spend several billion dollars for the first female’s clothing, that is not a perk in the Constitution. Nor are barber shops either. We have become a two tier system, they take it from us and to enrich themselves, and we do with out or are rationed.

Michelle’s clothes binges
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/10/analyst_places_27_billion_valu.html

[TomGuy]

Any third party is a joke, if you ask me

The two party set up is little more than an ole carnival shell game. One gets their turn at the treasure, then the other does.

The current GOP has been moving in the same direction, just not as fast, as the Dems have.

They are different sides of the same coin.

There is no real alternative. Both parties are run by progressives who are driving toward socialism.