[Trteamer]

Yep, I'm leaving the GOP and joining the Democrat Party. Why? I figure I can do more good by being a Democrat and helping their party swing more to the conservative side and away from the radical leftist side that has taken them over. Now I will be able to go to their caucus, vote against the leftist candidates, ask embarrasing questions about their ideas and the Constition, remind them the country is broke, and help them to send candidates with no chance of being elected as their choice. In addition, I will get them to waste their campaign funds on sending me junk mail, waste their time by calling me, and I get a chance to chew on any Democrat cadidate who calls me asking for my vote. What the heck, I figure I am doing the country a favor by helping to nullify the leftists control. Thoughts?

[AppyPappy]

If enough Republicans did that, we’d have it made. Blacks have to vote for the Democrat. If he is more conservative than the Republican, we win.

[kas2591]

The good news is you’ll be able to register and vote as many times as you want.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

You may be interested in this LA Times 2006 article. Of course this is the LA Times and they bash Bush and seem to feel that the fight against Bush is at least as important as the fight against terrorism.

Channeling Kennedy and Truman, Democratic neocons want to beef up the military and won't run from a fight.

.. but the thing is-- and part of this article comports well with what I remember -- these are

"liberals fighting to reclaim their party's true heritage -- before they decamped to the GOP in the 1980s.

"Indeed, the credo of the new Democratic hawks is eerily reminiscent of the neocons of the 1970s, who ran a full-page ad in the New York Times called 'Come Home, Democrats' after George McGovern's crushing defeat, in a play on his campaign slogan 'Come Home, America.' In it, early neocons such as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Norman Podhoretz called for a return to the principles of -- you guessed it -- Truman and President Kennedy.

"They lamented the fact that their party had been taken over by the forces backing McGovern's run for the presidency in 1972 and wanted to purge the party of the McGovernites."

.. and there's this which surprised me (if it is true!): "Just as the old neocons wanted to expel the McGovernites, so the new ones want to rid the party of the Moveon.org types and move it to the right."

Of course the old neocons who wanted to expel the McGovernites (back in the 1970s) gave up and fled to the Republican Party.

The article ends with advice for the few real Democrats remaining in today's Party:

"if they are to revamp the party, they will have to do a lot more than simply evoke the ghost of Truman and Co."

[radioone]

There is no way in this world I could sit and listen to an entire group of Progressive/Marxist/Socialists spew their crap.

And, I'm so ticked off at the Republicans, I re-registered as an Independent, and told all the cell-phone callers begging for more money to stop calling.

Both my Senators from this Solidly Republican State are going to vote for Hagel, so, after 40 years I'm D...U...N...Done!!!!

[Shimmer1]

You know, I’ve been thinking of the same thing.

[SeminoleCounty]

Join the Constitution Party or even the LiberalTarians before joining DNC

Unless you are minority or gay...the DNC is not going to listen to you

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

You’d have a better chance at success by being devoured by jackals and changing them from the inside.

[molson209]

say good bye to your family and friends now, because after they install the implant you’ll never talk to them again

[G Larry]

Evangelizing in Hell might seem noble, but YOU are singularly ill equipped.

[Rocky]

Yeah, who knows, maybe you can find ways to get free government benefits. All the Democrats do it.

[bmwcyle]

It will be like stand at the base of Niagara Falls and making the water flow back up.

[trebb]

Probably just as useful as anything else folks can come up with - good luck and stay sane.

[Longbow1969]

You aren’t going to change the Democrat party from within. Worse, in order to go to their functions and talk with them you’ll have to endlessly lie about your beliefs. You will have to pretend to adopt at least some Democrat positions in order to maintain your cover. If you’re the kind of person who likes trolling liberal internet forums you might be able to get away with this for awhile, but if you are a decent person I bet you’d find lying that much to people in person isn’t appealing.

If you really want to help, the best way is to encourage the division between red and blue in the United States. If you are in a blue state, move to a red or purple one. If you’re really into trying to influence people, go for the purple state where you can help tip the balance to conservatives. If you want piece of mind and vote properly but don’t feel like battling with others all the time, just go for a red state.

What we really need to do is concentrate conservatives in states so we have decisive voter advantages solid enough to do the complete opposite of what liberal states are doing - and challenge the federal government (ignore its rules, etc). Basically, red states need to go so low tax, regulation and as purely free market as we can so that the blue states lose so many businesses and productive people that they literally can’t fund their social welfare states. This will compel the leftist Federal government to try to “even the playing field” so blue states can compete, and will kick off absolute red state defiance against the Federal government (refusing to pay new taxes, etc). This is only real chance going forward.

[freeandfreezing]

Actually it can be very useful to slip in among the enemies of freedom and gather intelligence. During our revolution brave patriots served as spies to gather vital information. Keep a low profile and learn their tactics, systems, and membership. Seek to gain (legally) whatever information you can.

And then figure out how that knowledge can be used to help the cause of freedom.

Standing up and showing your true beliefs will cut short your mission, although ultimately you may want to try to gradually influence the local group you join once you have their trust.

[Mike Darancette]

But, who is changing your diaper?

[Trteamer]

Lots of differing opinions on this one...

Here is a conundrum...
Is it better to help the democrats put up loser candidates, or is it better to continue to go to the Republican caucus and primaries only to see the Rino candidate keep getting picked by the majority of the GOP?

[Wyatt's Torch]

LOL! Hilarious LAMP.

[fr_freak]

Don't listen to any of these a-hole naysayers. There is a reason that the GOP is the Stupid Party, and that is because there are too many members of it that think like naive idiots. Meanwhile, the Dems are ruthless devious and cunning and will consider no trick off limits.

Go for it. My advice is not to come at them straight forward. You join up and figure out which of their "values" seem to be in line with yours (i.e. Power to the People!) and you promote those values to the extreme. A good example of this would be to take advantage of the Left's famously anti-government attitude ("burn it all down, man). Now that the Left is in charge, taking that leftist anti-government attitude to the extreme would hurt the Left's most prominent guys. For example, you constantly harp on Obama and his illegal wars. You rant and rave about the racist fascism of the ATF, the FBI, the police, etc. Use key issues that are near and dear to the rank-and-file Left. Medical marijuana is a good one. Every time the feds raid a dispensary in CA, WAshington, or wherever, you rant and rave about the corporate fascism of the Obama regime and how they are just tools of the ruling class. Talk about how Dems are no better than the Rethuglicans and voting for Obama might as well have been voting for Bush III.

In other words, demoralize the living hell out of the Dems in your area, to where they are convinced that even their own politicians suck. Leave them so broken they don't even want to vote or participate any more. Take their own values to such an extreme that it is impossible for even the most leftwing politician to uphold them, then spew your venom at them when they fail to do so. When other Dem voters at meetings, or whatever, get incensed at your extremism, accuse them of being undercover Republicans and right-wing fascists. Find racism,sexism, and homophobia in EVERYTHING that your fellow Dems do.

I've thought for a while now that every conservative in a solidly blue state, like CA, should register Democrat and vote for the most conservative Dem in the primary. Voting Republican in CA is a joke and serves nothing. Infiltrating the Dem party as a bloc and voting for the least leftwing of the top candidates will eventually water down their ideology over time.

If you're wondering whether all of this will work, you have no need. I guarantee that it will. How do I know? Because that's what they did to us over the last 50 years, and look where we are.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Nice dream. I have bad news.

The commie Dems are signing up immigrants and welfare kids and government school brainwashed yutes at a much higher rate than we could possibly achieve by jumping ship to the Democratic Party to influence their outcome.

You are being demographically outgunned. The writing is on the wall.

Our fall began when we ceased to be a moral, infomed electorate. The immoral idiots are calling the shots now that we passed the 50% tipping point.

Nothing can save this nation short of a Constitutional amendment restricting the vote to property owners and tax payers. Like that could happen.

It’s over.