Posted on 12/25/2014 8:36:57 AM PST by lqcincinnatus
GOPe / RINO bump for later....
I have been waiting. I waited for Nixon. I waited for Ford. I waited for Bush and then Bush. I’ve waited long enough. We have fallen asleep or are brain dead.
Lol, Washington will have finished storming us long before we storm Washington.
It looks to me as if the republicans are desirous of Hillary as POTUS if they are determined to run Jeb (common core/amnesty) Bush.
Familial political dynasties put the lie to the notion that we live in a republic.
Sad but true.
I don’t hate the Bush folks like many on FR, but there are better candidates available.
Familial political dynasties are also proof that most of the people want to be ruled rather than represented.
Not impressed with Levin.
He should have either announced he had left the party, or just said nothing.
The “I’m just an inch away” threat is worse than silence. It reinforces the idea that people won’t do anything other than gripe.
I registered unafilliated in 2007. I’ll rejoin when the party moves right instead of left.
WHat it means is that you have to get active at the local level and in the primaries. As long as we sit around and don’t get conservatives to run and WIN this is what we will be stuck with.
Face it lots and lots of folks stayed home in 2012 REFUSING to vote against Obama....So we ended up with Obama and look what has happened. Romney may not have been anything I wanted but he definitely was not as bad as O. On the house and senate side we have to hold their feet to the fire. Light up the phone lines, primary them, let them know they ignore us and attack us at their own peril
I don’t “hate” the Bushes. I do not like their politics and I believe they have been bad for the country.
I also believe that W deliberately squandered our last real chance at saving the republic. More proof that the lessor of two evils approach to electing our leaders simply slows down our descent into the abyss.
I’m also remaining a Republican, a Conservative Republican, I also belong to a new Conservative organization in my county that is affiliated with other groups that have already formed in probably half the counties in the state. Conservatives need to remain active.
Hate? Do you have evidence of this hate? Or are you thinking like a Democrat?
Conservatives strive to use their minds in political discourse, not their emotions. Democrats hate - they're filled with it. Don't project.
One doesn't vote AGAINST something, one votes FOR something. Give us something to vote FOR and we will. Throw yet another statist DemocRAT-lite RINO at the conservative base in 2016 and you'll get the exact same result. Of course, you'll blame the base, yet again.
It was the GOP backstabbing of Palin that first and foremost ended my lifelong self-identification as a Republican, and destroyed any sense of kinship I felt towards the Party. All the ensuing shenanigans from Boehner/McConnell/Rove, and the nomination of Romney, have just solidified all this.
Used to look forward to and watch the GOP convention every election cycle for decades. Couldn’t get myself to even watch a minute of it last time. Hardly watch any ‘political’ type talk-shows anymore, as I no longer care or trust what any of the so-called conservative talking-heads have to say. It all just makes me sick.
Yeah, for the Demo candidate Jeb.
I held my nose to vote for Jorge Busho’s second term. I held my nose and repressed the urge to vomit when I voted for McLame. That’s the last time I voted.
I don’t hate the Bushes, far from it.
I like GW as a human being. I think, considering the alternative, we were blessed to have him at the helm on 911. He is decent, he aspires to be decent. I got frustrated with many of his policies, though.
At one time I thought Jeb would make a fine president; from all accounts he was a good governor. With his own mouth he forced me to change my opinion, with his several attacks on conservatives, and his support for policies I can’t abide. Every time I think I might change my mind about him he opens his mouth again.
So, no, not no way, not no how. But hate him, no. Its more sadness. He could have been very good if only he thought more like me.
The only time we could see a third party taking hold is if GOP win the next presidential election and we have someone like Palin run against GOP. We could call this new party USIP which stand for US Independence Party
My state primary is currently so late in the spring that the nominees in 2008 and 2012 were determined weeks earlier."
That doesn't work out- Texas primary was/is Mar. 4- and that's way too late. Texas really has no say in the primary cycle.
Woohoo!!! It's 2008 all over again.
Sorry, but that don't fly anymore, after all that has been said and done.
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