Maybe, maybe not.
I am reminded of the stranglehold rats have on "minorities" and secular Jews. It always amazes me that those groups can vote for a party that does them such a disservice and holds them in such low regard.
I guess conservatives are now in the same boat and we can answer ourselves how a party can keep a group "on the plantation".
I've never appreciated a man peeing on my boot and telling me it's raining. A great many republicans have already told me that I'm a sexist and a racist, I guess I should just consider it rain and be a good slave and mash that old "R" button even thought I know it's for a party that doesn't share my values and appears to think that I'm some sort of low life. My party, right or wrong. I guess Zell Miller is the only person allowed to have standards.
Let's hope it doesn't come to this but if the republican party wants to spend the next 40 years in the wilderness so be it, I didn't leave the party, the party left me.
I agree with you. I guess I’m a “racist, sexist, phobic” of some sort - at least that’s what I’m told daily by the media and even the politicians I helped elect. I’m not of course but I keep getting told I am.
I’ve talked about this same thing (dems and minorities and why minorities keep voting for dems, those who hold them down) with friends, who are minorities - it’s funny, their kids get a free college ed just because of their skin color and mine won’t have those scholarships - they agree and KNOW they get freebies. They also know that their kids get singled out in our district - not too many minority kids here to keep the funding coming. We fought the district ( I was there as the kid’s Godmother but funny thing, I wasn’t, yet the entire conference was directed to me - all the questions, answers, examples, the whole PC BS lines) which wanted to put this 1st grader in a special class. And the thing is, he didn’t NEED to be there but they needed the numbers for funding. They needed the diversity and his parents knew it but needed to know how to fight it. Then, it happens again this year and my friend calls me, needing help with all the doublespeak, stupid paperwork and again we’re fighting the school district, special services for a kid who doesn’t need special services but the district needs the numbers and needs the minority thing. It’s frustrating. Many take advantage of it but then there’s a few who won’t and they get screwed. It all sucks.
I guess what I’m saying is this is my party and those politicians who don’t belong in it should be the ones who leave or who are forced out. Let THEM start their own 3rd party of fake repubs. I’m a Reagan Rebublican (that was during my initial voting time so that’s how I see the party). I’m grateful to Bush, his SC choices, his WOT. I hate his stand on illegals, globalization crap. But I still think he’s the better choice than Kerry or Gore so I’m happy he won.
I’m not sold on any of the current repub nominees. I do like Hunter and Tancredo some. I have no idea who I will vote for in the primary but I will vote for the repub in the general. I think Hillary, Obama, Edwards, and anyone else running on the dem ticket would be far worse for this country than any repub. I’m conflicted because I don’t have a real choice so far. The party left me but it’s my party so we should force out those who don’t believe in our platform rather than us being forced out.
I’m also surprised by how many Jews are dems or support dem politicians when their interests aren’t covered - heck, if it weren’t for the repub party/US, Israel wouldn’t still exist yet most Jews I know are solid dems.
I get what you’re saying. The repub party LEFT me too, I didn’t leave them. However, I don’t think the power is on that side, we have the power and those politicians who don’t follow the repub platform, they should leave, not us.There’s no reason for us to leave the party, it’s our party, let the RINOS leave and start their own party.
I hate seeing conservatives splitting or throwing away votes. I’d rather we get out the RINOS on the local and State level first. We’re losing locally, at least here. This primarily repbublican/conservative town threw out its republican mayor and town council last election and we are now a solid dem town. IT was unheard of here, it’s absurd. Yet it happened. If my little, conservative, affluent town can elect a dem mayor dem town council and dem school board, we’re losing this fight and it doesn’t make sense to me. The repub party sucks at PR.
On the bright side, conservatives won an important battle here in this town. We successfully eliminated That’s A Family video from our 3rd grade curriculum. And we did it with a dem mayor, dem town council and dem school board. It’s just the beginning of the fight but we won the first round. We’re gonna get sued for it too and maybe when taxpayers get hit in the wallet with this lawsuit, they’ll start voting and taking a real interest in local and state politics. The fems, homos, other goofy alternative lifestyles pervs are gonna make us, this town, pay for defying their agenda.