i remain a registered Republican simply so i can vote in the primaries, but, i've voted on the Conservative ballot line since i was old enough to vote
If the mnessage is not received and understood by the party, it is likely that we, along with many of those we elected and retained in both 2010 and 2012 will come with us. Thus, we will, in effect, put the GOP in the minority in several state houses and perhaps even the US house of representatives.
This, my FReinds, could develop into a rerun of 160 years ago!
I gave up on the republican party a dozen years ago.
BTW the spelling is independEnt.
Democrats everywhere applaud your effort.
i remain a registered Republican simply so i can vote in the primaries, but, i've voted on the Conservative ballot line since i was old enough to voteDream on, you are a dem operative, go away.
Every situation should have been challenged so that at the next election cycle the Rats think twice before trying it again.
I’ve always thought it would be best to re-register en masse as Democrats. Then go to their next meeting & vote out all of their leaders & replace with hard-line conservatives. The far leftist types then might leave for Green or Workers Family Party. At least they’d be honest about their politics at that point & couldn’t hide (in plain sight) in an establishment party.
But if I was going to leave the R’s, as I did once before, I’d go to the Constitution Party.
It’s true that the GOP should have embraced the Tea Party but instead turned their backs on them. On the other hand, the Tea Party unfortunately faded into the background after the successes of 2010 so their influence dimished and allowed the GOP to go back to business as usual (i.e., snatching defeat from the jaws of victory).
My problem with the GOPe is that they are appeasers and just can’t understand that compromising with Democrats means doing things their way. Democrats are vicious infighters and play to win. Republicans perversely view a face-saving loss as a win. We need a resurgence of the Tea Party before the country goes over the cliff for good.
Sheeez, is even some cursory proofreading TOO MUCH TO ASK ? !
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and apropos of nothing herein, FR is running like frozen shite this afternoon :-/grrr
Conservatives need to purge the RINO’s from the state GOP so we can get the damn primaries CLOSED once and for all...dems are picking our candidates by ‘crossing over’, and they will continue to do so until it is stopped.
I’ve already done it.....right after the debacle of an “election” in November. For the first time in forever, I’m now an Independent. The GOP can kiss my lily white butt.
What is meaningful is to abandon the primary system and return to state party conventions.
Bkmrk
As a Democrat, you also get a shot at running the government, instead of complaining from the outside like someone who couldn't pass a sports team tryout.
The only mistake is registering independent. Everyone who wants to quit the Republican Party (as it deserves) should immediately switch over and re-register as a Democrat, and support conservative candidates in Democrat primaries. It would simply be impossible for the welfare statist MSM to reprogram the sheep in time to counter this strategy - which would acknowledge the existing reality of one-party rule but would greatly strengthen conservative and libertarian voices within the one-party system.
I like this idea...HOWEVER...
Unless there is candidate identified now, a single candidate, not ten to choose from, which will muddy the waters and cause divisions, weakening any chance of winning, then it will all be for naught.
This candidate will need to begin campaigning now, and raise vast amounts of money, as much as a billion dollars after expenses in the bank by January 2015, and the ability to raise a billion more in 2015.
With all that, the political machine (democrat and republican) would still win, unless measures are in place by 2015, to significantly reduce the impact of voter fraud.
No small task ahead, must begin NOW, don’t understand why wait until Feb 21st, wasting very precious time.
Beware the trap where everything is talk, talk, talk, this will mean hitting the streets, much harder than the Tea Party did in 2009 and still maintaining the same credible behavior.
All this stuff is just bluster to avoid the actual hard work. It's easy to claim a revolution is at hand, that you're going to rebel, that you're going to overthrow the "establishment". If only it were that easy. Nothing is going to get done that way.
Conservatives simply need to dominate one of the two existing party's (the GOP is just the better fit) and seize enough influence to push it in the direction we want it to go. It's tough work, it means being the loudest voices, it means showing up for the most meetings, it means putting the most time in organization wise, it means changing the public's mind about spending and debt (yes, you actually have to win the arguments to become more influential), etc. An existing establishment gets comfortable and doesn't wish to give ground to new ideas. If we fully take over, our own establishment would rise up and do the same.
But the real reason something like this won't even get off the ground is because there isn't even agreement on which direction we should go. After a poor election cycle we have a lot of factions pushing and pulling in different directions. Only some folks think the answer is to "just be more conservative". There are strong libertarianish forces taking hold in the conservative movement (and in the country) that wish to drop the social issues. What makes you think that conservatives are even united enough to stand together on much anything, let along pull anything big off. We can't even get our act together in the House of Representatives - and don't think if some Tea Party favorite was speaker it would be much if any better. It isn't enough to just vote for conservative things, you have to actually win the argument with the American people and currently, we aren't.
it is likely that we, along with many of those we elected and retained in both 2010 and 2012 will come with us.
Oh it is not. It isn't even likely that conservatives can band together and challenge Boehner - that's how divided and impotent our movement currently is.
You will probably get flack from the Phony Cons....but remaining in the GOP just means you are voting for different liberals.
Unfortunately too many still get their marching orders from people like Hannity, OReilly, and other Phony Cons.
I left the GOP a few days after the election.