The "unappeasables"? Is that what you call folks like us who are tired of trying? ?Tired of trusting in the Republicans, only to get kicked in the teeth after the election?
:How about some "trying to appease" us, for a change! How about the Republican nominating a conservative once in a while? How about the Republicans standing up to the unconstitutional actions of our elected representatives and making an issue of it once in a while?
This next election cycle will seee an exodus of conservatives out of the Republican Party the likes of which haven't been seen since dissillusioned Whigs left in droves to form the Republican Party.
And it's too late to stop them (us).
I'll see some (or many) of you at the Constitution Party this year.
Sad to see the naive on this thread don't understand that the Republican party is a big tent party. You can try for a "true" conservative, but you'll never get one. Ever. Too many special interests and single issue people out there.
So go jump to another party and say hello President Hillary. If your little Constitution party ever gets over 14% of the votes in my lifetime, I'll eat my computer.
Alllllright. The new term for insertion instead of "unappeasables" as regards those who do not but complain and support the "vote Democrat" position is.. "the unwinnables". Is that better?
Claiming you were dupped into voting for Bush in '04 and using nothing but examples from before the election does not reflect a lot of credibility.
How about some "trying to appease" us, for a change! How about the Republican nominating a conservative once in a while?
You mean like Roberts and Alito?
This next election cycle will seee an exodus of conservatives out of the Republican Party the likes of which haven't been seen since dissillusioned Whigs left in droves to form the Republican Party.
The disillusioned Whigs were mostly big government types whose party was essentially decimated after the deaths of Clay and Webster. They were hardly the states' rights conservatives you seem to be in search of. BTW, they favored public schools!
As for an exodus of conservatives, why didn't that happen during the '04 cycle? The answer was simply that there was no place to go except into the arms of John Kerry!
I'll see some (or many) of you at the Constitution Party this year.
Very, very few. Most Republicas learned that lesson in 1992 when they put Clinton into office for 8 years by romancing Perot. So have at it.
Republican nominees are elected by Republican voters, in most states anyway. Your beef is with Republican voters, not the "party" as a separate entity.
If enough Republicans voted to nominate real conservative candidates, the Republican candidates who would be nominated as a result would represent conservative positions. Since that is often not true, it must be assumed that most Republican voters are not themselves as conservative as we would like them to be. The only remedy for that situation that I can think of offhand is to better educate the average Republican voter on the virtues of conservatism and how to identify a real conservative candidate.