Today's GOP are mostly Centrist refugees from the Democratic Party who have left because the Rats have gone so far to the left. They have squeezed out the conservatives in the party.
Democrats vs. Republicans = I see it as black getting blacker and white getting whiter and the gray area is starting to disappear. Just my $.02
"They have squeezed out the conservatives in the party."
We conservatives are still here and number millions.
And almost all conservatives are in the Republican party because that is the most effective place for conservatives to advance the cause.
Here's why AMERICA needs conservatives to stay Republican:
There is no place else for conservatives to go, if they are patriots. ... Sure, if you dont give a damn about the country, you will go third party, stop voting, or go insane like this 'consrevative punk' fool. if you are childish, demand perfection out of imperfect politicians who have to please many constituents, you'll never get 100%. so some give up. Too bad for the country when they do.
If you are a PATRIOT, you want America to succeed, you won't give up and you won't do dumb things.
For America to succeed, it cannot be led by the Democrats - infested with treasonable ideas, socialist clap-trap, and seeks degradation of society. The Republican party is the only American political party that can lead us away from the danger zone that the leftist Democrats place us in.
Teddy Roosevelt spoke of those who get "in the arena".
That is a duty not just for candidates who run for office, but for voters in the voting booth.
If you are - like me - pro-freedom, pro-family, pro-life, pro-American, pro-war-on-terror and against socialism, anti-Americanism, Big Government, liberal extremism, etc., you have one choice: Support, vote, work for, help and advocate for the conservative cause. In the ballot box, that is voting Republican 99% of the time in general elections, because 99% of the time the more conservative candidate is the Republican.
That's the simple reality. There is a lot more conservatives can do, but the most important thing conservatives can do is this: Keep the Republican party conservative, and keep it winning... by abandoning the Republicans, we lose both, and America suffers.
Centrist, nothing. They're liberals who don't want to call themselves liberals.