Anyone Else Fed UP With the GOP?

[Karama]

I am posting this, because of recent events. I am very upset with watching our freedoms being signed away by this new "President", and seeing those who are supposed to be leaders in the GOP not even batting an eye over it. I am sick of the spineless way some of the GOP behave when they should be standing up saying, "Heck No we are Not going to let you do this."

We voted for these people on the notion that they would carry out the conservative agenda that we sent them there to perform. So far we have yet to see much of this. We as citizens give these people the power to rule us. I say it is time we start taking it away if they will NOT obey the will of those who gave them their power in the first place.

I think also the crowing moment that has set me on fire for a new kind of change is the "President's" comment that he won so we should all just sit down shut up and do what ever he wants. When he told the officials we elected that he in effect told us this as well. I say now is when we need to break this silence and be as loud as we can be. I refuse to sit down and shut up any longer. I don't care if I am the only one who is willing to get a bull horn and speak my mind. I will. Conservatives, friends, silence is getting us no where, but shafted. We need to take a more proactive tack with our government. Even if it means starting a new party.

I have as of late felt that the GOP leadership has left it's grass root conservatism behind. It has fallen prey to the notion that if they become more "moderate" that they will be loved by the liberal left. Hog wash!

So in light of this, I feel if our so called "leaders" are going to leave us behind, then I feel we should do them the same turn. I call for all those with a mind for justice, and a love of freedom to stand up. All those who wish to not see this great Republic fade into the night stand up! Stand up for the constitution, for God, for the betterment of mankind! STAND UP!

[PhilCollins]

I think that the majority of voters already know that Democrats control both houses of Congress. I’m surprised that you have any co-workers who didn’t know.

[McGavin999]

Nooo, you’d be surprised how many don’t know that. The average person on the street doesn’t pay attention. They think Bush had a republican (EVIL republican) congress doing his bidding.

[maine-iac7]

That video is a nice video. The guy makes a nice presentation, but he doesn’t lay out a grand plan to return the party to Conservatism. He asks folk to vote for him. He makes a good case for them doing so, but he doesn’t lay out ways to make sure he is elected, other than please vote for me

Good golly! This was only one clip! And he WAS campaigning then.

Listen to 'em all - read his bio - read about him -

http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Link-Leadership-Trial-Allen/dp/1434395693/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233176599&sr=1-5

[maine-iac7]

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I'm not “presuming” a thing. It's you who are completely missing the point here.

There are several of us who have repeatedly and faithfully supported the GOP over the last 3 decades.

It is only until recently that the GOP has completely abandoned us, with the exception of only a few isolated individuals left who represent us.

We have been more than patient and have sent in our hard earned money in support of a party that has squandered our faith and trust with outright betrayal.

You, on the other hand, have taken a self righteous stance by insulting many hard working Conservatives on this forum, whom of which you owe an apology.

If you still can't grasp the magnitude of disgust many of the Conservatives here feel, at least allow them the right to deal with it the way they see fit. Their method or opinion is no less valid than your own. So stop trying to correct what is not correctable. They feel the way they do for several reasons.

So, get over it.

[malia]

“Yes and I feel pushed. I feel as if the party I have backed since 9/11 has forgotten itself and needs to get off it’s collective back sides and get on the march!”

Tell me how it has ‘forgotten itself’.

First, go back to 2004..

Second, go back to 2006.

Forget 2008, ‘we’ had done a great job on ourselves and by this time it was too late!

Forget what Obama is doing now. I’m asking about the Republican Party and how YOU feel it has forgotten you.

Should not take many words.

[DoughtyOne]

For most of my adult life, I spent ten to twelve hours per day working to support and raise my family.  When I could I have helped to produce campaign stops for Congressmen and Presidential candidates, probably about eight of them.  I have been to Washington four times to show support for Conservative leaders.  I have also contacted my leaders continually over the years, urging them to do the right thing.  I have talked to people at my place of business trying to keep them abreast of the issues of the day.  I joined Free Republic's Foundation, and tried to help and establish and support chapters across the nation.  I served as the Los Angeles Chapter President for a few years.  We protested on the streets of Los Angeles a number of times, confronting thosuands of A.N.S.W.E.R. representatives in the process.  We supported President Bush out there after his first election.  We appeared on the local media outlets a number of times.  And you know what, I do come to Free Republic, have been for eleven years now, and I will continue to express Conservative opinions here, because tens of thousands of people pass through here.

Af for joining the Republican Party aparatus in our state, I wouldn't waste my time.  The Republican Leadership in our state is invisible.  The only time it rears it's ugly head, is when it's got a solid RINO to foist off on us.  When we run Conservative candidates, it's nowhere to be found.

The one thing I don't do, is insult people I don't know for not doing what it is I think they don't do.

[DoughtyOne]

You told us to go listen write it down and follow through.

I didn’t learn one thing from that clip, other than that I like the candidate.

[ForGod'sSake]

Thanks for the ping. This thread gives us the opportunity to vent our spleens and say our piece, but I suspect little of consequence will come of it. I also suspect our collective righteous indignation expressed here in the choir will have little effect or influence on our representatives darkening the (self)hallowed halls of DC. It should be evident to all by now that DC only begrudgingly answers to the will of practicing Americans. When a misinformed electorate(non-practicing Americans) put into office what may in fact be an illegal alien, the time for dialogue with our feral government has passed. IMHO of course.

I'm of the opinion that perhaps our last viable hope of reclaiming any semblence of our sovereignty, as difficult as it might be, is to petition our individual states for redress of federal abuses. That is to say, we should ALL be pounding on the doors of our sovereign state capitals to demand they perform their duties under the Constitution, amongst other things, to defend our God given rights -- The Civil War notwithstanding. I'm under no illusions re the financial predicament most of the states coincidentally find themselves in now AND their reliance on the feral government for their very solvency. The printing presses must be running day and night!

~snip~

IT WAS THIS ASPECT OF THE CONSTITUTION that most captivated Tocqueville. He thought the Constitution of 1787 “the most perfect Federal constitution that ever existed,” the work of a small convention that contained “the finest minds and the noblest characters that had ever appeared in the new world.” No aspect of their genius seemed to him more appealing than the plan by which “each colony became an independent republic, assumed an absolute sovereignty,” and then took its place as one of the United States that form “not only Republic, but a confederation.” When Tocqueville wrote, in the 1830’s, he gazed with admiration on what he termed “the 24 small sovereign nations, whose agglomeration constitutes the body of the Union.” And he added: “The great principles which now govern American society undoubtedly took their origin and their growth in the State. We must know the State, then, in order to gain a clue to the rest.” To Tocqueville, the sovereignty of the Union was “an abstract being,” but the sovereignty of the States was “perceptible by the senses, easily understood, and constantly active.”

And so it goes...

[DoughtyOne]

Well if John’s voters can understand Keating, they can understand Abramoff. I do get the problem of the illegal alien stance, but aren’t Arizonans coming around on that point? I had a very favorable opinion of Haworth, but I didn’t want to get to far out on a limb because he wasn’t in my district, and I didn’t follow him real close.

[trisham]

Excellent post, D-1.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you Trisham. I appreciate it.

[SoCalPol]

The loons on the thread are now taking it out on Republicans because they voted third party or sat at home
which gave us more Democrats.

The idiots who voted third party in Minn. may have given
their state, the leftwing Al Franken.

200 votes and Republican Norm Coleman would already be back in the Senate.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

These idealists may also be responsible for giving us Senator Freaken. Thanks, guys—brilliant!!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

These idealists may also be responsible for giving us Senator Freaken. Thanks, guys—brilliant!!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I know there are many very good, hardworking Republicans in congress and they deserve more respect than they're getting. For instance, my congressman is Steve King and I know he wants all the Republican help he can get.

Sometimes we must hold our noses and vote for the better good. The way it is, we're going backward with no hope of ever advancing as long as we're fractured.

[maine-iac7]

ah, you wanted to know what I have done in working for the GOP - I complied and suggested you tell in turn - I must have missed it in this last reply? What, exactly, have you done?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, have you gotten any money back yet? I’d like to ask Oren Hatch for my donation back that I gave to his Senatorial Committee. What a twerp!

[davidosborne]

I tried a couple of time to call and got “mailbox is full” same with SEN Nelson & Martinez

[SoCalPol]

to the Trolls & Third Party loons, shove it as all
Republicans in the Hose just voted against Obama’s bailout