In before the zot?
Still, it's a vanity.
...KNOCK IT OFF!! {g}
Sadly...tragically...true.
Depends on what your definition of IS is.
Spork Weasel Alert!!
In all seriousness, you're (sadly) right...
An amazing number of people here back a so called Republican candidate who is pro almost everything you mentioned.
None dare call it treason.
Abortion, Sovereignty (Borders), Euthanasia, Hillarycare, Gun-grabbing, Kelo, Big Government and so many more issues are ALL deadly MISSLES aimed at the airplane that is America. WE CITIZENS are the pilot (or even better God is the pilot and we the co-pilot). And we must NEVER let people like Rudy and Mitt hijack us into the national suicide towers of Ba'al and Molech.
It is as I said to you a few times before: you are not leaving the GOP, the GOP is leaving you.
And the solution is as I said a few times before: with a big, sudden move, a whole conservative party shift needs to occur to a third party that uncompromisingly represents conservative values.
That will split the electorate, and it may mean some Democratic victories for awhile, but a real party shift - not just for the Presidential slot, but for Congressional slots - will put the third, conservative party officials in actual office, and able to block legislation, or horsetrade between the parties to get legislation.
And it is as I said to you before, something that cannot be done by individuals at the grassroots by ones and twos. Some individual with a huge following and lots of eyeballs needs to make the shift. FreeRepublic is THE conservative website, par excellence, THE one with the most eyeballs, THE place that brought down Dan Rather, even.
The person who has to do it, then, is YOU. YOU have the platform, here, by which a true American Conservative Party, from coast to coast, could be stood up in short order. FreeRepublic, under your control, gives you the power that nobody else in the conservative movement has - the power to short-circuit all collective action problems, and reach out and grab people who already post here, state-by-state, and draft them for office.
I said before that you should do it, because if not you, who?
And you should do it NOW, because the GOP has not, is not and will not respect conservative values, particularly on the border. They don't now, and they never, ever will.
It's dead, Jim.
Don't stay chained to a corpse.
Use your control of this amazing network, this FreeRepublic, and create an American Conservative Party overnight.
Sad but true. The Republicans are slowly becoming Dems, and the Dems are rapidly becoming Socialists and Greens.
Well put Jim.
We Republicans have our values of pro life, against big government, againt illegal immigration, etc.
We need to remember, we don't have to emulate the democrats
to beat them.
"... at the length, truth will out..."
True; but on closer examination you will discover they are merely two cheeks of the same ass.
I feel like a Black that is trying to escape the plantation because I won't vote for a liberal Republican. Whoever gets my vote is going to earn it by representing my conservative values and beliefs.
Jim, you sum up the current situation very well. What suggestions would you have to correct it?
As far as I know, the GOP platform has not undergone a re-write and the first of the candidate debates have yet to commence. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) primary number one won't be held until February 2008.
Join us in the New World Order Jim. Resistance is futile.