I am done with the GOP (vanity)

That’s the thing.

The last true conservative was Reagan and he got elected twice.

OK, the electorate has changed a lot since Reagan so for more recent history, Baby Bush got elected twice as well, trying to pretend he was a conservative. Even that was good enough to mobilize the base.

Now, who failed.

Romney. RINO.

McCain. RINO.

Bob Dole. RINO.

Daddy Bush lost his re-election once he was exposed as a RINO.

And people here say conservatives can’t get elected. NO. The opposite. It is the damn GOP RINOs that are unelectable, as proven by the massive failure of Romney, McCain and Dole. The conservatives GOP candidates tend to get elected.

Yet here was Boner and Ronald McConnell shoving yet another RINO down our throats.

“This country wouldn’t elect a moderate Republican and you think they would elect a Conservative?”

Good observation.

Could Mitt Romney actually become —the most conservative— candidate the Republicans offer up for the voters in the years to come?

“The only hope I see for reforming the GOP is to leave it and show them the huge numbers of voters they could draw if they nominate conservatives.”

Good luck. That isn’t going to work.

Yesterday’s election produced “huge numbers” of voters — who voted for Obama, voted for what he will “give to them”, voted for what he represents. Those voters have made their intentions very clear to us.

If a Republican candidate as “conventionally attractive” as Romney could not pull these folks towards our side — presumably because the left sought to portray Romney as “extreme” and/or “too conservative” — what makes you think they will be attracted to a REAL conservative? Are you really serious about this?

Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, Colorado, and it looks like Florida — ALL of them voted a SECOND TIME for Obama. I contend that these can no longer be considered “battleground” states — they are clearly “tipping over” towards the blue side. And Obama is as leftist a candidate as has ever been put before the American people. Look at whom they chose.

I have no answers as to what could replace the Republican party. Certainly not a “conservative” party, which would take away from the Pubbies, and make it easier for the ‘rats to win.

The country is now divided. No need to try to explain to you what “the two sides” are.

Of course, “our side” would like to just be left alone to live in peace. But the left will never permit that. NEVER.

How do you really suggest that they be prevented from achieving dominance?

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