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Turn Out The Lights: The Grand Old Party Is Over
markamerica.com Blog ^ | August 28th, 201 | Mark America

Posted on 08/29/2012 3:23:29 AM PDT by Bratch

That’s it. You can shut down the convention right now. It’s over. Romney’s camp just shut down all dissent, and they rigged it that way. Twitter is awash in angry tweets from people who know this was a sham. John Boehner actually wielded the gavel without a hint of a tear as he said “the ayes have it.” They didn’t have it, and I think it was pretty clear that even if they did, this was a set-up. I have news for the GOP establishment. I am voting in November. I will vote for all the down-ballot candidates who are worthy of my support. I am not going to vote for Mitt Romney. Don’t look at the page as though you’ve read the words of a man pledging treason. It was not I who rigged the primaries. It was not I who rigged the convention. It was not I who rigged the rules committee. All of those things are actual treasons against the conservatives in the America, and all of those things were carried out by Mitt Romney and his legion. I am a small matter to it, but I will have my say. If the Republican party wishes to commit suicide by Romney, they may do so, but they will do so without my help in the matter. John Boehner may have enjoyed his moment in despotic pleasure, and Reince Priebus may have been doing his masters’ bidding, but Mitt Romney had it within his power to put a stop to all of this, but when tested by circumstance, Mitt Romney’s fatal character flaws prevailed.

The Republican Party is dead. It’s time we get on with this convention and consider it a funeral. You’re witnessing a party that will now fall, and I’m going to help it on its way. Some of you diehard Republicans who read this blog may wish to find other haunts. It’s not going to be pretty. When I saw John Sununu begin to surface with regularity on Fox News over the last few weeks, I suspected the fix was in. His conduct of the RNC Rules Committee on Tuesday demonstrates that fact.

I am a person who refuses to separate his convictions from his actions and choices. Mitt Romney could have done many things to gain my support, and the support of many others, but rather than do so, he seized control. He used all his pals and buddies to take over and make the voices of grass-roots Republicans and Tea Party conservatives silent. Some will urge that we remain focused on November, and I agree, but my focus is irrevocably changed. I am out to defeat the GOP establishment in any and every form that may take.

Note to conservatives: I will understand if you swallow your pride and your principles and vote for Mitt Romney, but do not come to this site to chastise me or others who refuse to join you. Your argument had consisted of convincing us that the Romnoids wouldn’t behave this way, and at precisely that moment when they needed to prove it, they behaved precisely as we dissenters knew that they would. Save it.

Romney had his chance. Today, he blew it.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012rncconvention; coup; nutburger; rnc; romney
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To: carriage_hill

“Get rig of the hate-America, marxist, commie, muzzie, racist POS 0bummer, FIRST! If we don’t, your can use your downstream ticket votes to wipe you butt. It won’t matter at all.”

I openly wonder how many of the folks who claim they wont vote for Romney actually get government support in some form or another?


41 posted on 08/29/2012 3:55:24 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Biggirl

Agreed. Get Barry out first. The Tea Party ain’t done by any means.


42 posted on 08/29/2012 3:55:42 AM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: MEG33

Amen to that.


43 posted on 08/29/2012 3:55:44 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Bratch

Yes, it sure did. The GOP-E acted exactly like the Rat Party yesterday.


44 posted on 08/29/2012 3:57:06 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

Cut...nose...face.

Not voting for Mitt is the same as voting for Obozo. If you think he’s better than virtually anyone else on the planet, I fear for this Republic.


45 posted on 08/29/2012 3:57:46 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: MEG33

I am sick of faux Conservatives demanding that we drink the Romney/GOP-E hemlock.


46 posted on 08/29/2012 3:58:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Bratch

Presidency means NOTHING with respect toa Tea Party Constitutional Government.

That starts way out in the states- in the local legislatures, statehouses and governors. When that has happened...a Tea Party presidency will follow.

That’s Sarah’s game

The liberals have been playing this game since the 1930’s. They’re still ahead...way ahead. The Tea Party is playing catch up...and has yet to show it can go the distance.


47 posted on 08/29/2012 3:58:21 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: fr_freak

We don’t know for sure, but already he and his surrogates have been tougher on Obama than McCain EVER was. He’s no conservative, and I don’t like him at all. Still, four more years of Obama’s distruction is not an option. Best we can do now is pray for God’s mercy on America and put it in His hands.


48 posted on 08/29/2012 3:58:25 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("When America ceases to be good, she'll cease to be great!” - de Tocqueville)
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To: conservaterian
I really think Mitt will destroy this country faster than Obama can.

Anyone that spouts this drivel is too stupid to be allowed to vote.

I don't want you in my foxhole, you wouldn't bring any ammo.

49 posted on 08/29/2012 3:59:05 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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To: MEG33

Probably written by Obama’s campaign team anyway. He will do whatever it takes to get reelected the least of which is lying


50 posted on 08/29/2012 3:59:20 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: ChoobacKY
Those who refuse to vote against Obama are voting for him and for the continued decline of this nation as a display of selfish petulance.

Blah, blah, blah...

51 posted on 08/29/2012 4:00:09 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: conservaterian
I really think Mitt will destroy this country faster than Obama can. Conservatives can fight Obama, can keep him from doing ANYTHING.

Utterly delusional. Romney will at least part of the time do conservative things and at least will help to reverse the state socialism that Obama is trying to put in place. Obama in a second term will not be checked by conservatives. As he told Medvedev, he will have a lot more "flexibility" in his second term. I hope you enjoy Obama's "flexibility" and marxification of the USA.

52 posted on 08/29/2012 4:01:52 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Bratch

I will hold my nose and vote for Romney b/c the number one priority is getting Obama out of the People’s House. Today I am changing my party affiliation from Republican to Independent. I’m sick and tired of the GOP taking my vote for granted.


53 posted on 08/29/2012 4:04:07 AM PDT by Lilyjuslan
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To: RFEngineer
I get ZERO government financial support. How about you?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>What does government support have to do with this? You don't get ZERO government support. You get the same amount the rest of us do. You are protected by our military, you drive on our roads. You might get zero direct support like food stamps or welfare but I would guess that 99.99% of us on FR are the same.
54 posted on 08/29/2012 4:04:39 AM PDT by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12-NOPE Cain?- Guess NOT. ABO & ABMR. I'm going Goode.)
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To: conservaterian

It doesn’t get done the next election, Einstein! It starts the day Romney is elected, continues through the transition and then we cultivate the groundwork for ‘14 mid terms, GET IT?

Some here still carry that mantra that Sarah is stupid, well if you would take some advice and a clue from Sarah, she saw that the only way to emasculate the GOPe was to do it down ballot and not from the head. Take away the GOPe base, which is the down ballot, and then another age of Reagan can begin but this one even better than before.

What she is building is a coalition of tea party conservatives from which to take over the GOPe and she will do it just as she did what many said was impossible, put the cronies in her own party in jail. I don’t subscribe following anybody like the Obama idiots did, but instead look, listen and see what she does and how she does it. Her tact has them even more scared today than if she would have run and attained the nomination.


55 posted on 08/29/2012 4:05:14 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Here’s what I don’t like: Romney is a leftist Republican who really belongs in the Democrat party, yet he is now the only choice we have against Obama. After four years of Obama, we’ve got a significant portion of he country up in arms and darn near ready to revolt. If we elect Romney will every conservative then drop his guard and say “whew, that was close” and go back to business as usual? Will we fail to recognize that Romney is darn near as dangerous to our freedom as any Democrat? As far as I’m concerned, the revolutionary edge that many people are feeling needs to increase after Romney wins (assuming a lot here) rather than decrease, but I’m afraid it won’t.


56 posted on 08/29/2012 4:07:34 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Timber Rattler

You want a bellyful of Obama cyanide?

I love my country too much to enable 4 more years of the Marxist and his Czarists.


57 posted on 08/29/2012 4:08:08 AM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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To: Biggirl
I agree. Posters like this seem to want Obama to win.
58 posted on 08/29/2012 4:09:57 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: Hayride
Both parties are the same at the top

No, they are NOT the same. That is objectively false. Please learn to make distinctions. Romney is not perfect, but he is not a state socialist like Obama. He chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, so he can take some conservative actions once in a while. Obama will never do so. As for the rule changes, I don't understand all of it, but it seems to me that the delegates should vote for the candidate who wond the state concerned, as I believe is the thrust of the rule changes and what the Democratic Party's rules already require apparently.

59 posted on 08/29/2012 4:10:51 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: MayflowerMadam

What a pitiful campaign McCain ran.


60 posted on 08/29/2012 4:13:07 AM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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