I don't think there is really any cause for despair. FR has always been a magnet for the disaffected third-party types. They are represented here in a percentage FAR outnumbering their real numbers in the general population.
They are loud and vocal and full of passion. They will take over threads here denouncing the President and the GOP. At times, it seems like they're even a majority here because they feed off each other and most reasonable people know better than to bother engaging them.
But they are a joke. They vote for losers every time. They apparently enjoy being out of power and being mad about it. It's what they are.
Look at the third party vote in 2004. It will take a microscope. It's all sound and fury signifying nothing.
I've voted straight republican since I was old enough to vote. The GOP has left me. I didnt leave them. 2006 may be the first time I vote for a 3rd party.
Now, those statements are starting to ring true for me.
It reminds me of a Freeper tag line - "the roar of the masses could be farts"!
It sure seems like more than 20% around here are simply pissed off an anything that Republicans do, as well as Democrats - but, I can see the why on the Democrat side. They don't seem to be smart enough to acknowledge that anything that Republicans try to do - the rats are on it like flies on poop. Well, lately it has been poop - but it's the only game in town and that game needs to be played skillfully with an occasional win that moves the conservative and party values forward sometimes all there is in the real world.
I guess I'm just way too upset at seeing the now 20% vote - on this site - for allowing the rats to run this thing down to hell. I'm also feeling a little lucky to not be one of those posters that "needed" to vote for the rats for whatever strange, stupid and blind reason.
I lost my only son (he was a Marine) - my only child and that "event" adds to my reasons for not wanting the rats to take over - he also would not want to see that happen - I'm hoping that he "can see" and "knows" that we continue to be on the right path, slowly moving back to the future in some ways and forward to the future in others. We cannot allow the really stupid and lame people on either side to take over no matter how loud they get, even here. Now, once again, I admire all conservatives - but the one or two issue conservatives need to get a life beyond those issues and not work against the only political party that even cares about doing the right thing.
Uh Excuse me but you can thank the third party voters for the 80's-90's GOP takeover. There are plenty of voters who will vote conservative even within the Democratic Party. So who had the brains to unite this force and bring about the Conservative takeover? Three names. Howard Phillips {Founder of the Constitution Party}, Paul Weyrich of Free Congress Foundation, and a Dem I'll let you guess the name LOL. They persons were the driving force behind the most successful Conservative Grass Roots movement in modern U.S. history.
GOP leadership has ignored the conservative base not just in the GOP but also the Democratic and Third Parties which is what Conservative landslide wins are made of. The GOP did not come to power on Liberalism it won on Conservatism by uniting voters from all three places. Dem's don't want GOP liberals they'll vote for their own. If the GOP doesn't give Dem Conservatives a conservative candidate they vote straight ticket. Why should they vote for the other party's liberal?