Posted on 10/23/2016 6:57:19 PM PDT by Hildy
I am. Win or lose.
If trump,wins it won’t matter what party affiliation is attached to your name
If hillary wins better register as democrat and lay low
Who was your nominee? Has it been Trump all along, or somebody else?
I’m proud to say that I NEVER WAS A MEMBER OF THE GOP. Independent.
Anyone say that with a Freeper history of more than 10 years?
I’m sorry but you guys wasted your money and time ponying up your hard earned dough to a lying party which raped you the entire time.
I’ve hated the Republican Party for years now and don’t identify as one.....not any more.....
If we lose, there will only be one party.
No. I can no longer tolerate the way the Republicans act while in Washington. They compromise more than they get anything done and they go against the will of the people.
Way back in the beginning it was Cruz. But then when I heard Trump, WOW! I was all in. I was a Trump delegate at the Convention and I stood there right next to the stage when Cruz wouldn’t endorse Trump and I will never forget that. I will also never forget the energy for Donald Trump and how much that man is fighting for us and everything he has exposed about the political machines of both parties. He is my hero.
Me too
At this point I don’t see much point in the Republican Party except as a brake on the greater insanity of the Democrats. It is corrupt, incompetent, and increasingly represents only a self-satisfied upper class demographic that has interests incompatible with my own. We should use the GOP if it serves our purposes, but not belong to it.
Their reaction to Trump has made it crystal clear that they are comfortable being a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC and will resist any real reform to the death.
Also, the GOP “brand” is very seriously damaged with the public and makes it hard to reach out to the young, minorities, and others that share some of our frustrations with the direction of this society.
I think, however, that we need to think beyond the GOP, Democrats, and third parties and ask ourselves what sort of organization would be most effective at fighting to give the people of this country a future. Political parties were not part of the founders original vision for this Republic and creating a 3rd selfish and venal political faction may not provide much of an improvement.
“Stoping the Democrats” isn’t a message that resonates with the romance and purpose that attracts people to a cause. We need to be offering something very powerful and affirmative. We need to give people the opportunity to be part of something that is redeeming the world. Communism, Christianity, the Civil Rights Movement, and most other successful movements had that magic too them. We must find that magic. Cold policies are not enough.
People in this country are increasingly without hope, isolated, robbed of the sense of community, purpose, and belongingness that religion and a functional civil life provided in days past. The Trump rallies provide some of that. We need to study that phenomenon and learn how to make it a permanent thing. A Trump rally has something of a rock concert and a rock concert has something of the Catholic mass. People want hope, people want purpose, people want to feel good about themselves, people want to belong. We need to give them the opportunity to do so.
I would rather not be associated with any party.
Accurate and well said.
Trump,will not run again. He’s worked his ass off for this one, he will be 74 years old. He’s given it his best shot. He can buy and island and tell the plant to go F itself.
ME
Now that I switched back to the Republican party to vote for DJT, I rather think I will stay here. I want to be able to vote in Republican primaries, and that is the only way to do that here in FL. If the GOPe run only their candidates in the primaries, at least I can write in a name as a “creative” alternative : )
I heard Rove thinks of conservatives in “his” party as pesky ants at a picnic. He’d rather not have to deal with us. Therefore, I will remain in “his” party, if only to annoy him.
If we win, I stay so I can help Trump in 2020 primaries.
If he loses, I’m out but at that point it won’t matter.
I will only leave if Hillary wins.
My family has been Republican since Lincoln. I know that’s not a good enough reason to stay, but I’m staying. A Trump victory should present an opportunity to build a new party leadership — purge the globalists and cheap-labor-express types, and put in those committed to America first. A successful Trump Administration should be able to solidify that kind of change. As for elected officials — the grassroots can work to primary the RINOs or, failing at that, work against them in the general.
Besides — if I left, where would I go? As far as I know, there is no option to be an Independent in Indiana, and that’s not really a party affiliation because there is no such party. When I vote, I would wind up voting for acceptable Republicans anyway, or not vote at all.
If my vision fails to materialize, I would be open to a viable replacement for the Republicans on the national level. I am not interested in wasting my time or vote on existing parties which, if they get on the ballot at all, wind up with less than 1% of the vote.
he won’t run again.
Under President Trump, if the GOP is gutted of RINOcrats, what happens to the GOP members of Congress, who have demonstrated themselves to be the epitome of RINOcrats?
Can’t leave a group to which I do not belong. Then again, living in the San Francisco area, the local Republican Party HQ is a closet in the back of the “chairman’s” house, so there’s not much of a party.
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