John McNasty is just itchin' to get the old gang back together
Posted on 11/17/2014 10:38:43 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Out of touch, Perpetuation of the Political Elite, Polite and Acceptable Discourse
Many on the Right were euphoric that the Republicans thrashed the Democrats in the elections earlier this month, expanding their presence in the House of Representatives while recapturing the Senate with a wide (and still growing) margin. Yet, in a move that seems to have been calculated to burst everyones’ bubbles, John McCain came out last week during an interview with the left-wing web magazine Salon and promised that the incoming GOP senators wouldn’t be “Ted Cruz types.”
Of course, the collective response of the majority of Americans who came out and voted on November 4 was to ask, “Say what??”
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You must be a troll, because this post is entirely against the monolithic GOP which has to remain intact to save us from the evil Democrats. Second reason this must be a troll is this goes against Reagan’s second Commandment, Every RINO is okie dokie, or something like that, and anything anti-Reagan is Anti-American. /extreme sarc
One reason why the GOPc is dangerous to the GOPe and Democrats. They both rely on the elites.
Their ideas involve breaking God’s laws. The GOPc (conservative) stands for Constitutional liberty and will get there via conservative populism. Eventually, enough elites will come around.
John McNasty is just itchin' to get the old gang back together
That photo could be in a biology textbook discussing a compromised immune system.
The GOP isn’t perfect and all large organizations have an establishment. Recently Dinesh D’Souza released a movie in which there was a world with no America. I would like to take it a step further and imagine what America would like without Democrats:
1) We would not have had the New Deal.
2) We would not have had the Great Society
3) We would not have had to endured the incompetence of Jimmy Carter
4) We would not have had to endured the antics of Bonnie and Clod.
5) We would not have had Obamacare.
Works for me!
Is the GOP perfect? Of course not, nothing is. But it is VASTLY preferable to the other party on every level imaginable.
/johnny
I would say 'preferable,' but not 'vastly preferable.' And that's not good enough.
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6) We would not have had Obama
7) We would not have had Obama’s dictaorial actions including
executive amnesty
That’s what I do too.
I vote conservative in the primary.
I vote GOP in the general.
While not every GOP candidate I have ever voted for was perfect, there was never a situation where the Dem candidate was a superior alternative.
Our choices in politics are never perfect, but they are always easy.
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6) We would not have had Obama
7) We would not have had Obama’s dictatorial actions including
executive amnesty
It's not about perfect. It's about whether the candidate is pro-life, pro-2nd amendment, for strong borders, for free-market medicine, and for smaller government.
I couldn't vote for Romney, because he was pro-abortion, for gun-control, for socialized medicine, pro-amnesty, and a big government liberal.
That's not imperfect. That's the kind of liberal that doesn't even match the Republican party platform.
/johnny
I always have more than D and R on my ballots.
I will never vote for a liberal republican in the general election.
/johnny
MR wasn’t perfect of course. No politician is. But as I recall he campaigned on a platform....
1) That was pro-life
2) Opposed to amnesty
3) opposed to same sex marriage
4) Committed to repealing Obamacare
5) Committed to developing the Keystone Pipeline
6) Committed to increasing domestic energy production.
7) Committed to repealing Dodd-Frank
8) Committed to decreasing domestic spending
9) Committed to Health Savings Accounts
10) Committed to allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines
11) Committed to turning over social programs such as Food Stamps and Medicare back to the states.
12) Committed to standing up to the Russians and developing missile defense systems.
13) Committed to across the board tax rate reductions for individuals and corporations.
Now....if you think this was ALL LIES....every last word of it, the promises and platform the Romney-Ryan ticket ran on, then I would agree with you.
Here in CA, they recently instituted the blanket primary in which only the top two vote getters get to appear on the ballot for the general election. This effectively eliminates most independent and third party candidates.
Of course, one can't be low-info and get their information from network news like too many Republicans here on FR do.
If you vote for a liberal republican, you ARE a liberal.
/johnny
The jerks who held their noses and voted for liberal republicans are why we are in the situation we are in.
/johnny
No one this election could say what Republicans stand for except for not being part of Obama or his agenda.
They need to lead as a good opposition party or forget about being a viable political party till all the old time establishment types are removed.
I think the definition of what a RINO really is has changed in recent years.
Back in the day we used to refer to them as “Rockefeller Republicans”. Politicians such as Lowell Weicker, Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Spector, John Chafee, Charles Mathias, Jacob Javits etc.
They really were liberal Republicans, mostly with very liberal voting records and mostly from the northeast.
Now, we have people like Mitch McConnell with a lifetime ACU rating of 96% being called a RINO, and Pat Roberts one of the most conservative senators in the US Senate called a RINO.
There is not satisfying certain purists these days. We have to work with what we have. Nothing is life is perfect, least of all politics.
Mitch McConnell used his cloture vote (not counted by ACU) to allow the bill funding Obamacare come up for a vote, instead of blocking that vote. That is supporting the liberal agenda.
Once again, you have to be fairly hi-info to follow the cloture votes (or even know what they are) to see that.
It's not about perfect, it's about matching the republican party platform (and not just with show votes).
You scream perfection, but you ignore the cloture votes of the senate republican leadership, which proves their liberal bonafides.
/johnny
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