Posted on 01/10/2014 9:19:01 PM PST by uscga77
A Republican no more
Yeah, sure!
I did that some years ago, and I called them on the phone to do it. I cursed that MF up one side and down the other before I hung up as well. I actually think the guy was a bit understanding. Maybe he was not too happy with the RINOs either.
Roger on the going Galt. I did.
I’m with you uscga77,
With “leadership” like boehner and mc connell the pubbie party is just not what I’m in to.
Dem lite garbage
I had the opportunity when they called me for a contribution. Realizing the person on the other end was just a worker trying to earn a paycheck, I was polite but to the point. I asked him how old he was and he told me 20. I then told him in a calm manner that I had been a registered Republican for longer than he had been alive and that I was both saddened and furious to see the once Grand Old Party turn so far left. I told him I could no longer in good conscience support financially or with my vote a party that had abandoned me and my core values. He sounded as though he understood and told me that I was not the only person he had heard that from. That was 7 years ago and the party has not changed course, it continues to go down the sewer. I believe if more people would do what I did it would matter. They're not about to change as long as suckers continue throwing money their way. I haven't received another call from the GOP since.
Symbolic and in my opinion not too smart if it takes your chance of voting for a Tea Party candidates in the primary. Every time a conservative leaves the party it helps the RINO in the primary. I prefer being an Independent in spirit. Too many options are taken away otherwise.
I haven't either.
About a year ago I left the Republican Party and became a Libertarian. The final straw was the fiscal cliff fiasco and Boehner’s mishandling of it. I have many differences with the Libertarians but fewer than I do with what passes for today’s Republican Party.
I’ve taken it a step further. I’ve just quit voting altogether.
We have to acknowledge that unless things turn around a lot, there’s no use. While we weren’t looking, the b@stards have indoctrinated waves of students who now vote against this country as we knew it. IOW, they have won.
If a real second party emerges with possibilities, I’ll rethink my position.
Turning in pubbie stripes for independence is great, except if it disallows you to vote in a primary, ie for T Party candidates.
When the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Donohue, and Karl Rove et al make it perfectly clear that they will work to defeat conservatives in the primaries, why would we show up to vote for another of their milquetoast “moderate” Republicans in the general election? Let them win with their millionaire base.
“I’ve taken it a step further. I’ve just quit voting altogether.
We have to acknowledge that unless things turn around a lot, there’s no use. While we weren’t looking, the b@stards have indoctrinated waves of students who now vote against this country as we knew it. IOW, they have won.
If a real second party emerges with possibilities, I’ll rethink my position.”
Obama and the rest of his commie ilk that have taken over the country, thank you profusely!!
Don’t do that. Either register Democrat to vote in their primary, or republican to vote in the primary. If people here in OK followed your example, we would not have elected Jim Bridenstein, and be stuck with the RINO John Sullivan
I agree with you. I can't cotton to the idiots that stayed home, didn't vote and gave us four more years of the Rat@#%&!**. I almost quit FR during the 2012 election because of the overwhelming whining about Romney. He wasn't my first choice either but anything the Reps. put out there was better to take a chance on than giving the Communist four more years of unfettered power. Romney couldn't have done as much damage in four years as the Socialist can do in a week. But What did we have here on FR, whaaaaayyyy, whaaayyyy Romney is a Mormon......whine....whine.....Romney is a flip flopper......boooo hooooo hooooo......Romney is a RINO and it went on and on and on. People took their ball and went home leaving us to the mercy of a POTUS with no more elections to worry about and nothing to fear with every branch of government, government agency infiltrated by his command with enemies of this country hell bent on destroying it. Not to mention the opportunity to appoint liberal communist supreme court appointments.
I think it might be wise for constitutional conservatives to get registered for the primaries, though. We have to vote against the likes of Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan or any other RNC faves. Otherwise, we're letting them run the show.
Didn’t like Romney one bit as the nominee, but I pulled the lever for him and that’ll be the last time I do so for a man like him.
Don’t care about his Mormonism. He is a flip-flopper. No way he’d have repealed ObamaCare—there’d have been excuses and he’d have tinkered around the edges with it. Amnesty? He’d have been pushing for it. The courts? We’d have gotten more progressives. He was a terrible choice to represent the party.
Would it have been AS bad with him at the helm? Probably not. But it wouldn’t have been much different, either. Same course, just slower.
As for those who stayed home or voted 3rd party? I don’t blame them one bit. Probably because I was on the edge of it myself.
FACT:
We CAN NOT defeat the socialists in the democrat party until we defeat and purge the socialists in the republican party.
Therefore our PRIMARY targets are the socialists in the republican party. If there is an opportunity to hit secondary targets, DO IT! but the primary targets MUST go down first or we LOSE the war!
Im tired of stupid people who cant seem to grasp the nature of the battlefield.
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