I’m done with the GOP.
I will be voting for Donald Trump on 11/8 !!! I will NOT be voting for any other down ballot candidates. I will no longer support Republican candidates.
Yup!
Don’t need em
As unappealing as the prospect is I'll vote for the lesser of two evils.
And anyone who disagrees can save their "traitor"..."Rino"..."coward",etc. Rat Party nominees Michelle Obama and Chelsea Hubbell Clinton will applaud (quietly) as you vote for the Real Constitution No Transgender Bathrooms Party's nominee.
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.....
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.
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.
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.
The party already left me.
I’m staying. Plain and simple. They are going to need feisty little old ladies to settle things down and pin back the ears of the opportunists who will be looking to step forward for leadership roles. Stern adult supervision is going to be required.
I live in Florida, and left the Republican Party in 2008. The party turned their back on a individual and threw him under the bus. I told them to drop dead and go to hell.
All they cared about is to keep those in power, in power. Those with fresh ideas and that wanted to help the people where told no and those that towed the line and kissed the career politicians rear ends were rewarded.
Last time I checked, over 1000 republicans quit the party, and like me, have gone NPA (No Party Affiliation).
With the current bunch of SPRINO’s (Self-Centered, Power-hungry, repulsive, Imbecilic, No-Good, Obstructionists), in power, there will be no changes, only the continuance of there ways.
And realize this people. I is both parties that have this problem. there is no Republican or Democratic Party anymore. Only the scumbag career politicians demanding that we kowtow to their ways.
Considering I changed from independent to Republican to vote in the primary, it is no big deal to leave the Republican Party.
One thing is certain, if Trump loses there is no point in having a Republican party. In that case, “the movement” needs a new party.
I’m uncommitted (”unenrolled” in Massachusetts) but I’ve always voted conservative, which traditionally means Republican. But I have no deep commitment to the GOP and never did.
Trump is the first Republican I have ever wanted to vote FOR instead of holding my nose and picking the lesser of two evils. Well, the first since Reagan, anyway.
My problem is the enormous lack of conservative principles in the GOP as a whole. How can these weasels (I’m sure you can name a few) sell themselves as conservatives then immediately roll over and give the Dems everything they want? They failed as the opposition party, then failed after we gave them the House and failed AGAIN after we handed them the Senate.
Has ANY federal official been removed from office with the Republicans in charge of Congress? Any bad judges thrown out? Can any of these clowns even pronounce the word “impeachment” without giggling?
There is no Republican Party, from where I sit. There is a Uniparty and nothing else. I’ll support the Trump Party if one arises but I won’t hold my breath.
Was never in it ...... conservative here. Will stay conservative till the ole dirt nap begins.
Fighting foreign and domestic enemies never ends . 24/7 job herding polidiots and presstitutes in the dark.
Don’t get mad Hildy..... get even.
If there’s a new party to go to, I’m gone.
Otherwise sticking around to vote against the RINOs
For me it's meaningless. I registered Dem for my first election, voted for JFK, then Repub since.
We can have a long and pointless discussion about how the Clintons in the early 90s established that "my country first" was too old-fashioned and limiting. Loyalty to the Party has been the rule since.
Both major parties, now, probably all parties.
Much more profitable.
Who knew, 24 years later, Hillary would be running the biggest crime and treason network?
By far the most profitable political criminal conspiracy enterprise of the last 50 years?
And all of her political supporters are ignorant and, no other way to say it... STUPID.
The only bright spot : Identity politics are about to be rendered useless, finally. Soon.
Unless the idiot voters already outnumber the responsible, informed ones, and have already destroyed the Republic.