Posted on 04/20/2012 5:55:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
Well, hope, you just cut off your nose to spite your face. Now you can’t even influence the little Republican primary voters otherwise headed in the fast lane to the left. We just have to vote for Romney now; isn’t that what Jebbie and Barbara keep telling us?
Goldwater told conservatives to “grow up” in 1960 and back Nixon, and GHWB says the same this year for Romney. So we must “group up”, turn liberal and vote Romney. We just must. Goldwater later said Nixon was the “most dishonest man” he ever met, but our predecessors were commited to Nixon too.
My state allows me to vote in the primaries, so spare me the theatrics.
All you say is true, but we just must go with Romney now. Jebbie and his parents demand that we do so. And what Republican can say “no” to a Bush?
Hope, most states still have closed primaries.
Have to bookmark for tomorrow..too late to put a coherent contribution just now...but let’s say I’m very much in agreement with most if not all of your thoughts here. Sad mostly.
Not voting is a vote for Comrade Barack.
Or maybe it’s a vote for a conservative President in 2016.
I understand. Just for me, I had to do this. It was a personal decision. I don’t recommend everyone do the same. I’m just fed up to here!
I cannot argue with one word of your article. It’s exactly how I feel. I am sick of voting for the lesser of two evils and refuse to do it anymore.
Yeah, but it's mighty oppressive. Truly, today there isn't a 'dimes worth of difference between a Democrat and a Republican.'
But I lay the blame for that squarely on the 98.5 percent of those who call themselves 'conservative' that have never once attended a local district GOP meeting, much less their county or state meetings - or even a local politically active conservative club meeting.
But, more than that, I also blame 'Christians' that attend a church regularly where political issues are rarely if ever mentioned - and active participation in political activism is often openly discouraged.
W. W. SMITH says, "and when they are not prodded into thinking about the difference between parties will end up voting stupid" - which assumes a verifiable and significant difference, which has existed more starkly in the not distant past - but which has faded with the lack of interest in keeping that difference alive at the local district level.
Los Angeles CA has a lot of registered Republican voters, many who claim to be 'very conservative' - but, less than .001 percent of them darken the doors of the many GOP county meetings that take place monthly.
Recently of those 'Republicans' that do show up, near half of them are liberal, and they verge on being able to outvote the slim conservative majority.
Hence, I must take strong exception to much of what is said on this forum by many. They've not fought for conservatism themselves - posting here doesn't cut-the-mustard. They need to get out of the house and go fight for a conservative GOP where they live. If they won't, they haven't a leg to stand on when they complain here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-8g5S0z5Y4&feature=relmfu
I greatly miss Milton Friedman the way I missed Ronald Reagan. I pine for men to fill their shoes.
Excellent post. I was blasted four years ago when I said we should not vote for the GOP establishment candidate, that it was time to let the GOPe know we would not br taken for granted. I said the same eight years ago. If we had acted then we would not be faced with Romney.
You make a great point about the next election. If Romney wins this one we have Romney as the choice for eight years as.prez.. That is eight years of more shifting to the left and by then all firearms will be illegal. If Romney were a Dem I would not, could not votr for him. As as Republican I cant and wont vote for him either.
My party left me. I will vote for the best third party conservative candidate. Will some conservative please show me where I can send my contribution, lend my support and for whom I can cast a vote.
Every year you hit a grand slam in the 9th. Good job, and thank you for your effort here.
We must purge the GOP of RINO control, and we must find a candidate who will tell people of American exceptionalism ....spelled FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know if we can survive another 4 years of these guttersnipes. I will comment more tomorrow. Thanks again for this fine thread!
Warm regards,
SJB
” Excellent post. I was blasted four years ago when I said we should not vote for the GOP establishment candidate, that it was time to let the GOPe know we would not br taken for granted”
I didn’t vote for McCain, as I consider him a traitor, and a psycho. So we elected a mentally-ill Marxist con man. Now we have Romney, who is a left wing Republican....happy days.
If you don't want to hear all 29 minutes, he hits these points at 4 minutes, 8 minutes, and 10 minutes. At 12:00 in the video, he asserts (1994) that we were more than 50% socialist. We're much worse now. He discusses in a way few do, why this inexorable move to the left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15idnfuyqXs&feature=related
That is precisely what it has come to. Republican vs Democrat has now become a distinction without a difference.
We conservatives have backed up over and over and over, when the GOP demanded we accept their weakling, liberal candidates, but this time, they're asking us to back through the gates of the gulag while they shut the door.
Sorry, but I'm not going there.
Probably not, but implicit in your question is the belief that they have not yet taken over and with this I agree.
The problem is the following IMHO:
A Marxist ideologue is President. His party's leadership is the same. Leadership of the opposing party also include some of the same elements. The Marxists have a compliant media who will never call them out for anything. My seat-of-the-pants guesstimate is that at least 95% of Americans have no idea of what these facts could mean for our safety and liberty. All those of us who do understand can only guess as to the specifics of the future we face if the Marxists maintain control.
I have confidence if Americans understood these facts they would do the right thing such that neo-liberalism / socialism / communism / statism would diminish to the point of political insignificance.
So the cure starts with education. Teach what it is that makes America exceptional. Teach what the founding fathers gave us and why it is so different from any other system of government. Teach what Marxism is and why and how it killed millions. Imagine a classroom with Newt and others as teachers putting this all together for the American people.
In the mean time, we need to build a power base. The question is how. What are the most practical steps to take to achieve this end and to ensure that the Marxists are not able to destroy liberty such that it cannot return without America devolving into a soul and spirit destroying statist atrocity -- a thing that precludes the return of America forever?
These are tough questions and the answers require leaders of a caliber up to those leaders of the first American Revolution. By now, for all I know, that leadership may already have formed or be in the process of so doing. The original founders were pretty coy in the lead up to the beginning of the Revolution. I mean, this ain't beanbag, folks.
I understand the founders always knew it would come to this. As they look down on us now, I wonder what they're thinking?
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