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Weigh in. Do you vote Republican as a 'Republican voter always', or do you vote Republican as 'the lesser of two evils'? I think our Republican leaders need to get a load of the way we think on Free Republic as REAL conservatives. And so do we at FR. This thought came to me in the aftermath of the election. I'm pretty active on Twitter, and I saw numerous people calling themselves Republicans who obviously believed they were Republicans - but hated Trump because they'd been brainwashed by the Media. These people are politically naive, of course - while believing...

There’s a chance that what ails the GOP is terminal, but to give ourselves a chance at recovery, we’ve got to move—physically. The Republican Party is sick, so sick it can’t breathe, and its lack of oxygen has given it severe muscle fatigue. There’s a chance that what ails the GOP is terminal, but to give ourselves a chance at recovery, we’ve got to move—physically.The party’s national committees, think-tank brains, campaign strategists, and government functionaries all live in the fever swamps of Washington that firmly anchor the snotty southern end of the Acela Corridor. The GOP’s elected and unelected leaders...

Three of the four sides of the Republican Party are combining into one powerful group — conservatives — Ted Cruz says seizing that combined group is the key to securing the GOP presidential nomination next summer. "The players that were expected to be formidable in those lanes have not got the traction they had hoped," the Texas Senator told Politico in an exclusive interview.  "The most encouraging thing I would say is that I think three of the lanes are collapsing into one...the evangelical lane, the conservative tea party lane, and the libertarian lane are all collapsing into the conservative...

... A new survey from Public Policy Polling finds that one-third of Republicans believe the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory that “the government is trying to take over Texas,” and another 28 percent of GOP voters haven’t made up their minds yet about the matter ...

What is most missing from the Republicans is not so much the lack of an alternative to ObamaCare. It is the lack of a clear vision. Even if you can understand what their various proposals (and friends and close allies often cannot), it is almost never clear why they want to implement them. Here is the sad truth: Even though the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is a Rube Goldberg contraption that no one can explain and even though its rollout has been a complete disaster and even though the delay of one provision after another makes it seem as though...

WASHINGTON -- Voters desperate for an alternative to both parties in Washington got another dose of good news in this week's primaries. In Florida and, it appears, also in Alaska, Republican voters once again sent a chilling message to their own party leadership in Washington. No, they cannot stomach the untethered liberalism of Democrats in Washington any longer. But nor can they stand the GOP recklessness we saw the last time the "conservative" party was in power. That Republican Party of yore and the Donkeys of present are enough to send shudders through any sensible person who cares about the...

CORN wants people to register to vote – as long as they’re Democrats. Republican registrations go into the trash. Here is a first-hand account of how it happens. In February 2008, Fathiyyah Muhammad of Jacksonville, Florida, heard that ACORN was paying people three dollars for each voter they could register. ACORN paid her three dollars for each voter she registered, but Fatiyyah Muhammad says that the group threw out her votes and fired her when she brought them registrations of Republican voters. Fathiyyah Muhammad voted for Obama. “I’m a Republican,” she says, “and this was the first time that I...