Posted on 02/23/2013 6:21:42 AM PST by Trteamer
After a lifetime of being a Republican, I'm leaving the GOP and registering as a Democrat. Why? I've tried to change the GOP from within, wiht little luck, so I figure it's time I help to change the Democrat Party from within....
Quite honestly I have been mulling over the idea of registering as Independent just to shift the polling numbers into the grey.
I am Conservative through and through, but why let them pigeon hole you?
Keep the opposition guessing. That is a valid tactic.
Conversely, it weakens Conservative polling numbers
PS Oh, and liberal chicks are easy.
They can only see other peoples problems so you may be able to make some small changes. Could be an interesting op. I say go for it!
Excellent advice.
Well the truth is leftists have long infiltrated conservative ranks and institutions; perhaps as one lonely soldier, and given that you play yer cards well on that front in the war, there may be some value. Bring a friend. Good luck and shower often.
Like who gives a crap. Just do it and don’t bother me with your life’s choices.
My parents were like this. They are distinctly conservative, but vote democrat. They figured that they could “change the party,” but it’s only gotten worse. They’re coming around to my views, but I can’t offer them much when my party is a bunch of bungling RINO’s.
I want the Democrats to waste their time and money on me. I like that part of it the best. I don’t need the GOP to waste their resources on me, heck, the last election I got 73 pounds of junk mail from the GOP. I saved it all and weighed it. LOL!
Operation chaos was not about trying to have Hillary win the nomination. It was meant to keep her in the Primary so she would keep going after Obama (Rush would say, “bloody him up”) in a way Rush knew the GOP would not. He was right and it worked. He was also correct that the GOP would be spineless jellyfish in the general, so we lost.
That makes no sense.
Vote Democrat?
You play them, and influence them in dribs and drabs, but you NEVER vote for the opposition.
However, be ready for the smell that shall assault your nostrils when you attend a party function-BAD AIR!
I will tell you this brother.
It’s a long slog, but just getting into the camp can be beneficial and it can influence them.
You have to get in a position to gain an ear.
You have to be patient.
Don’t show your cards to quickly or they will just roll you.
I’m glad that in our state, Illinois, we aren’t required to choose a party, when we register. I don’t want to call myself a registered Republican, since too many IL Republicans are too liberal.
That is absurd. The Democrats are the host for the virus.
Thinking about this and reading the thread gave me a sense of the thoughts of being one, doing as one, and succeeding as one. It might work. It could work. Most persons attempting would, and am in agreement with kevslisababy, it would drive a sane person nuts. If one (would not recommend mass migration for the masses) may hold onto their sanity, perhaps much could be achieved. Slightest glimmer of insanity or belief in what the democRATs actually stand for and one should HEAD FOR THE HILLS, is my humble recommendation.
I agree with you completely, and have studied this idea for some time.
Nothing else seems to be working. I say go for it. A few years ago in Georgia the republicans banded together to support the least offensive dimocrat congresswoman running and were able to oust Cynthia McKinney.
The quicker we polarize the USA into roughly North - South (lib vs conservative/ Red vs Blue ) the sooner we can get CWII kicked off. That is after the formalities of secession. 5 million killed tops, 10 million wounded.
After a lifetime of being Republican I am tempted to create the “DINGBAT” party. I think there are now more Dingbats than non-Dingbats in America so they should have their own party. As someone who still has almost fifty percent of a functioning brain I will be able to control them and make them do my bidding, my first move will be to have them elect as president a complete nonentity of unknown origins who will babble incoherently in between rounds of golf while my evil minions will control everything from behind the scenes. I will also make sure that he selects a vice president who thinks FDR was president in 1929 and went on television to address the nation when the market crashed in that year. I will have my Dingbat minions control the news media so that none will point out the obviously absurd incompetence of these clowns.
Of course there must be an “opposition” party so the current GOP will be left in place but it will be necessary to install a leader who will actually have some credibility as an “opposition” leader, the present GOP “leadership” simply don’t act like “opposition” any longer. I am thinking maybe Jim Demint and Rand Paul as the “opposition” ticket in 2016, they will present a credible “opposition” plan but will have no chance of winning against my clowns because well over fifty percent of the voters will be hard-core “DINGBATS” by then.
By the time the final collapse comes I plan to have sucked a trillion or so out of the economy, converted it to gold and silver and set up my own little country on a private island as soon as I find a suitable one for sale. Maybe Japan will become available.
I think that, in the long run, conservatives must de-legitimize the RINO driven primary system (AKA: Karl Rove run system) currently in place.
Until we put the country-club RINO’s from Harvard and Yale in their place, we will continue to get New England liberal “republicans” in the federal elections.
It HAS TO START with the primaries; make them “closed” to certified contributors/supporters. Make them prove their popularity by eliminating “national” funding for the “preferred local candidate”.
I believe that when conservatives have this level playing field, they are definitely viable (even in Ill-annoy).
Who cares?
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