I am talking about the REPUBLICAN party, not the conservative party. Based on your comments, you are not part of the base of the GOP.
Here's a clue for you: Conservatives consider that an insult, primarily because most of the time, it is a slanderous lie. Just so you know why people are getting their danders up as you cast such aspersions...
Here's a clue for you, the Republican Party is not the Conservative Party. There is a New York State Conservative Party.
I hate to say it, but you're dumb, then.
Ah, now the ad hominen attacks, the last refuge of someone who can't win on the issue. You claim to to be part of the "base" yet you rule out voting for Allen, McCain, Giuliani, Rice, and Romney if one of them becomes the nominee. You fail to provide the name of someone you can support.
You are hopelessly naive or woefully ignorant if you don't understand how the two party system operates in this country. Each party has its constituencies and they all don't agree on every issue. I don't have to agree with the GOP or the WH on every issue, but on balance, I want the GOP in charge and not the Democrats. My most important criterion is national security followed by taxation and government involvement in our lives.
You may consider it dumb to support whomever is the GOP nominee, but then again, you are not part of the base. You would probably feel more comfortable in the Libertarian or Constitution Party.
Without me and the millions of other conservatives who believe virtually identically to me...on abortion, guns, gays, national defense, borders, taxes, spending, education, regulation, etc., etc., etc., the GOP would not hold even one branch of national government. It's not even debatable.
Here's a clue for you, the Republican Party is not the Conservative Party. There is a New York State Conservative Party.
Hey, dude. We conservatives can survive politically without liberals. The same can't be said for liberal Republicans. By yourselves, you're just homeless Democrats.
Ah, now the ad hominen attacks, the last refuge of someone who can't win on the issue.
Calling you 'dumb' isn't that egregious, considering that you just said you'd vote for the Republican candidate no matter what. You made that unequivical and without exception. Stupid. There, I upped the ante.
You claim to to be part of the "base" yet you rule out voting for Allen, McCain, Giuliani, Rice, and Romney if one of them becomes the nominee.
I am the base of the pro-life party, the GOP. Read the Reagan platform, bub. None of the proposed candidates you listed meets that platform's criteria.
You fail to provide the name of someone you can support.
I'll do it in my time, not yours or anybody else's.
You are hopelessly naive or woefully ignorant if you don't understand how the two party system operates in this country.
I've been a Republican Party official in the first in the nation caucus state. I've entertained countless presidential candidates in my home. I've worked on three presidential campaigns, and run campaigns at every level of American politics...from county commissioner to the US Senate. I seriously doubt that I qualify as ignorant or naive about our process.
You may consider it dumb to support whomever is the GOP nominee, but then again, you are not part of the base.
Don't twist my words. I said it is dumb to support a candidate just because he or she has an R) in front of the name. I don't support pro-abort RINOs who masquerade as something they're not.
You would probably feel more comfortable in the Libertarian or Constitution Party.
The day that the folks like me leave the GOP is one many will rue...because it will be the beginning of the end for the Republican party.
But for now, we still have the platform, and we still have a solid conservative majority.
And, though I doubt you're knowledgable enough to know it, pro-lifers still have a virtual veto when it comes to nominating a Presidential candidate.
EV's not in the GOP. He left a good while back.
He's even said so on FReeRepublic.
Unless he flip-flopped.
Or the check bounced.