[Beagle8U]

"I have a question -- why do we conservatives assume we must have our home in the Republican party?"

You don't, unless you want to have a chance of ever winning anything. The Republican party is the only conservative party that ever wins. If you want it to be more conservative you have to work within the party.

You could try to make the RAT party conservative, but you will be starting with Marxists. Why bother?

[BamaGirl]

You could try to make the RAT party conservative, but you will be starting with Marxists. Why bother?
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You're from Michigan, so you know better than I do -- all those union guys who vote Democrat, how many would be more amenable to conservative values than Marxist ones?

And they only vote Democrat because their parents did, and don't realize how wacky the party has become?