Posted on 09/03/2013 11:55:20 AM PDT by Maceman
I suggested this idea on another thread, but I’m thinking maybe it deserves its own thread.
I’d love to see a full-blown glass roots campaign for Republican voters to constructively express their anger and demonstrate their absolute determination to save our nation by formally leaving the Republican Party.
I’d love to see the GOPe face a well-documented and very highly publicized walk-out.
It's easy and free. All we need to do is un-register.
I propose a massive grass roots movement for conservative Republicans to officially leave the party by changing their voter registrations to Independent or Unenrolled (or Conservative Party or Libertarian Party or any non-left party that is legally established in their state of registration).
If you live in a state with a closed primary, keep your Republican registration until the primary is over, and then switch (unless the conservative candidate wins).
Otherwise, let’s show the GOPe, the RINOs and the Democrat enabling aisle-crossers that they are on their own and will never win another vote from Conservatives.
In the current political climate, changing party registration is a revolutionary act. And this is a time for revolutionary acts if we are to save our beloved nation.
It’s time.
Let's turn our backs.
That liberal RINO “take over the party from within” nonsense is a waste. It is a loser idea. Real Conservatives aren’t buying that nonsense anymore
Get out.
You'll show 'em, brave patriot!
Go sit with the Perot, Buchanan voters. Or is it really the Democrats you'll be sitting with?
I’ve been registered (I) for a long long time. The extreme problem with this is in my state, I am not allowed to vote in the primaries.
Already did that a few years ago.
The minute Cain dropped out of the race, I dropped my party affiliation.
Every envelope they send me gets sent back with junk mail.
The DEMs have enjoyed a functional voting majority in both houses for decades now. No the 1994 elections did not change a thing. Even when the GOP had a two house majority with a GOP DOOFUS POTUS what did they accomplish? They accomplished paving the way for the abuses by Obama. Three cheers for the GOP The Tyrants they are.
Technically, I’m still registered as a Republican. But, my lifelong affiliation pretty much died the past four years when the GOP-E was joining in with the loathesome Dems and their media minions to backstab Palin at every turn. A big part of why I didn’t even bother voting for that bastard Romney, the first GOP candidate to NOT get my vote.
With the GOP consistently siding with Obama and the whole liberal establishment elites, from amnesty to fiscal cliffs to Obamacare funding to NSA domestic snooping to now this hairbrained Syrian idiocy.... I honestly can’t see a single reason to ever give my support to the GOP again. Heck, they don’t even bother offering a voice on the social/cultural issues anymore. The GOP just no longer shares ANY of my values it seems. No, not a damned one.
The only way I’ll support the GOP again, financially, is if Ted Cruz is the nominee in 2016.
Being one of the few “youngsters” that actually pay attention to politics a mass exit will not fix what is wrong. The only real solution is an exit from the financial system supporting terrible morals. This is essentially impossible as local government in many instances is at odds with individual rights, mostly limiting the ability to ostracize terrible life choices under the threat of losing your business.
What’s YOUR suggestion?
I’m out too. My only fear though, is that a “mass exodus” might also include a number of Republicrat operatives who would attempt to taint the Tea Party organizations. That might, in fact, already be happening.
People talk about how Palin is "damaged goods." She is not even remotely as damaged as the Republican brand, which has come to mean hypocrital government statist with zero credibility and zero trustworthiness. At least when Democrats vote for Democrats, their candidates are consistent in promoting what they say they're going to promote.
But when we vote for the Republican, there's as much a chance that he or she is going to promote what the Democrats promote as there is that he/she will promote limited government conservatism. It's a total crap-shoot at best, outright fraud at worst, as it was with Romney, a functional liberal Democrat statist government tyrant in philosophy and deed registered as a Republican.
The Republican brand is destroyed. Time to move on not so much to send a message, but to blaze a trail that can lead to the restoration of American freedom.
That is why we need to kick the RINOs out. Let those fools try to start a RINO-only party.
Why is it a problem, let alone an “extreme” one that you are not allowed to help choose the candidate for a party you are not a member of?
We tried that. Ruling Class in Washington responded by outlawing the Tea Party. When RINOs discovered this, they feigned outrage for a couple of weeks and then shut up about it.
There’s an apparent catch-22 in third party efforts. You need a large enough mass of voters to overcome the rigged game when it comes to ballot access. But you need ballot access to attract a large enough mass of voters.
We’ve solved that riddle.
For the last five years we’ve been laying the groundwork for what we call a “meta-party,” or, to put it simply, an organization that goes beyond party, to principle, while fully utilizing whatever is still viable or useful from the old way of doing things.
http://www.selfgovernment.us/be-a-leader.html
waiting on the My Party Tis Of Thee Defenders to start posting
This makes no sense unless there is another party to register with. All this does is prevent you from having a voice in the primary which is where the battle for the soul of the GOP is. If another squish wins the nomination anyway, there will be plenty of time to vote for someone else. Why would you weaken the tea party by throwing away the opportunity to vote in the GOP primary?
It might be a better idea if the Republican brand had any credibility. It doesn't -- its only "brand" is "hypocrite," bad risk, inconsistency, and unreliability. A REPUBLICAN created the EPA, a REPUBLICAN okayed Campaign Finance Reform that prohibits free speech, a REPUBLICAN created state-run health care in Massachusetts, etc. etc.
Hehe.. you should sent it taped to a brick.. so they get the extra charge ;)
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