[lifeofgrace]

The issue of abortion is not going away, and the GOP can either choose a side or become irrelevant.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The RINO oligarchs are outnumbered. It’s time that we capitalized on it.

[Resettozero]

Erick Erickson, the man described by The Atlantic as the Most Powerful Conservative in America...

Snicker. Chortle.

[Menthops]

It is beyond high time for the GOPe to go the way of the Whigs!

[montag813]

Was it really a surprise that GOP women bolted over a provision to mandate that women produce a police report of rape before obtaining an abortion? That would have been a bonanza for the Dems in 2016 House/Senate races.

[nathanbedford]

Conservatives have never had less to lose.

[Soul of the South]

With respect to social issues the GOPe is choosing to either adopt the progressive position or ignore the issue. Witness:

Gay marriage.
Abortion.
Immigration.

Soon the Chamber of Commerce will have them siding with the Dems on gun control.

[ecomcon]

God hates abortion with a zeal beyond human expression, and either America will purge the most heinous scourge since slavery from its shores, or we will face God’s judgment

We are under judgment now. Look around. Our once great and blessed country is being destroyed as the majority watch and cling to their vanity, envy, money grubbing, and sodomy.

A strong delusion is upon most people.

[Little Ray]

IMHO, the abortion issue is lost, for at least a generation. Maybe the next generation will seek to secure the right to life for their descendants.

We’ve fallen so far down the slippery slope that now we’re fighting against euthanasia, death panels, and “duty to die.”

[Bill W was a conservative]

"So be it, and so we have the arc of history swinging against the GOP, whose own birth came at the death knell of the Whigs, because the Republicans stood for abolition."

This is a pernicious historical inaccuracy - a partial truth. I commend to all Freepers to familiarize themselves with the Corwin Amendment - the original 13th Amendment, proposed by Rep. Thomas Corwin, Ohio Republican, passed and confirmed by the House and Senate with Republican and Democrat votes, and ratified by a few States before hostilities engineered by President Lincoln broke out, thus shelving the Amendment which would have acknowledged and confirmed in perpetuity slavery in the States that permitted it.

[rawcatslyentist]

6. It is forbidden to promote or give any kind of support for parties other than the Republican Party

We no longer are the R party! We have become the Dhim II party! Our platforms and principles are so close there really isn't any discernible difference.