Posted on 02/25/2021 6:05:25 AM PST by rustyweiss74
I would but to be clear this is about much more than just Trump.
The Democrat vote cheating will keep them in power. Not a MAGA party.
I abandoned the GOP long ago... it’s why Trump was SUCH a welcome choice!! It’s also how he won, because he was NOT the usual old RINO, Republican BS.
It’s why the Liberals try so hard to smear him and even now they still want to defame the man.
Pathetic
USA Today ignores that most Trump supporters have been long since disaffected with the GOP. It is not a matter of “abandoning the gop,” it is a matter of being independent thinkers and voters.
Changed registration to Independent when there were no WMD in Iraq. I have nothing in common with the GOP. They have no fight in them and they have been compromised by investment participation “offers” from Saudi, China, Ukraine, etc. every bit as much as Obama, Biden, Kerry and the Clintons.
Changed from Republican to unaffiliated for the first time in my life this year.
I will vote for the person and not the party.
Why vote for a democrat in republican clothing?
Plus maybe the IRS will leave me alone during these next four years.
If Trump started the Patriot party, the only people left voting for the R jersey would be the corrupt and the stupid.
Whistling past the graveyard. Never again voting for the Controlled Opposition. That is suicidal.
“Would you?”
I’ve already abandoned the GOP, so I guess the answer is an enthusiastic YES.
Voting no longer matters. We live in a totalitarian dictatorship. The free USA is is an historical anomaly. Come back in 100 or5 00 hundred years for what replaces ideas of freedom.
The GOP needs to die.
Elections need to be changed to paper ballots and with proof of ID.
Sadly, neither will happen.
He’s smarter than that. We’ve got a ready made infrastructure, we’ve just been ignoring it.
Yep. I would. But don’t think it will happen.
Trump will root out as many RINOs as possible within the GOP.
Liz, McCarthy and McConnell better be careful .
Truth29 wrote: “Voting no longer matters. We live in a totalitarian dictatorship”
Exactly what the democrats want you to believe.
I choose to liberate them from the distaste of having to ask for my support. They won't get it so they don't have to tell me sweet lies and while they beg for my vote and money with the intent of stabbing me in the back - again - the day after they get elected.
And for the doubter, you know who they are, the vote for the republican at any cost people, here’s what else we will have...
A boatload of former dems who do not identify as communist..
we win
“Would you?”
Count me in.
I’ll go
“Nothing like committing electoral suicide.”
Daddy said many times, “do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always got.”
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, “I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”
The Republican party is like that cheating spouse who comes home with the smell of his/her latest conquest on them. You cry and complain.
Then they verbally slap you around for good measure.
The Republican party will not change.
They best we can do is recognize we suffer from Battered Conservative Syndrome and deal with it. Tear ourselves away from those who abuse us and chart a new course.
Short term pain for long term gain.
Pay attention to the words of Patrick Henry...
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
https://www.ushistory.org/documents/libertydeath.htm
Yes!!!’ Gone in a heartbeat!
Republicans have left me, unless they want a campaign contribution!
They make me sick how pathetic they’ve become.
They’re worthless and weak!!’nnm
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