This may come as a surprise to you but there are many kinds of Republicans just as there are many kinds of Democrats.
A Democrat is not a Liberal is not a Republican is not a Conservative.
Whether we like the two party system or not, it is what we have and do our best to work with.
Frankly it would be a good idea to have a viable third party.
Even if we had a Liberal, Moderate and Conservative Party, my Democrat Party would contribute very few moderates while the Republican Party would provide a few liberals but far more moderates than conservatives. This has always made it easier for Democrats to maintain a majority and it is only under rare circumstances that the balance is shifted.
You can not under any circumstance consider yourself or Free Republic a meaningful vehicle to discuss the Republican Primary when you dismiss 80% of the Republican Party which probably does not welcome suicide advice.
This is page one of what Free Republic is all about. If you are not with us on page one, I doubt you’ll be with us on any of the following pages. If you are not 100% pro unalienable rights, you are no conservative. If you do not understand the most basic foundations of life & liberty, if you are unwilling to fight for these rights, if you are willing to compromise away our unalienable rights for political expediency, then you have no idea what we’re even fighting for. In the never ending battle against evil, you are like a lost soul.
Your comment about RINOs destroyed any influence in the Republican Party and your insistence on one issue being the guide for discourse abdicates any role in any political discussion unless you choose to resurrect the Right to Life Party.
That would be a legitimate option for you to take rather than presume to hector Republicans about whom to select because you consider yourself to be purer.
Well, that is silly. You are not. You are not a Republican and you are not a Democrat even though the Republicans will make room for you at the table and no one in the Democrat Party will ever support your positions.
Assuming you will continue your slide into mindless mediocrity and political irrelevance there will be no Republican of stature who will dare be associated with you or the Free Republic Forum.
Of course you have the right to take this forum in any direction you desire and I will miss reading the pockets of sanity which still exist.
I respect your passion for a cause, but it will fail to make a positive contribution to the selection of the next POTUS.
Is that your opus?
Your comment about RINOs destroyed any influence in the Republican Party and your insistence on one issue being the guide for discourse abdicates any role in any political discussion unless you choose to resurrect the Right to Life Party.
***From the front page of Free Republic,
Statement by the founder of Free Republic
Free Republic ^ | Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103363/posts
Posted on 03/22/2004 6:22:17 PM PST by Jim Robinson
As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, ....We are not connected to or funded by any political party,
That would be a legitimate option for you to take rather than presume to hector Republicans about whom to select because you consider yourself to be purer.
***Nonsense. This is a pro-life website, always has been. It’s all the RINOs who’ve been invading that try to turn it upside down to try to convince pro-lifers to vote against their beliefs, and yet they’d NEVER consider asking someone else like an islamist who held their beliefs closely to go against their guiding principles. See COGamer’s post below... Let’s look at this through the prism of other movements: Would pro-choice women vote for a politician who announced he wanted to make abortion illegal? Would black voters ever support a politician who wanted to bring back segregation? Would muslims ever support a candidate who was on the record as saying islam was evil?
Well, that is silly. You are not. You are not a Republican and you are not a Democrat even though the Republicans will make room for you at the table and no one in the Democrat Party will ever support your positions.
***Fascinating. My bet is that JimRob IS a republican, and your statement here is proof that republicans are not making room at the table.
Assuming you will continue your slide into mindless mediocrity and political irrelevance there will be no Republican of stature who will dare be associated with you or the Free Republic Forum.
***Duncan Hunter has plenty of stature as a 14 term congressman, so you are wrong here.
Of course you have the right to take this forum in any direction you desire and I will miss reading the pockets of sanity which still exist.
***Then shall we take this to be an opus?
I respect your passion for a cause, but it will fail to make a positive contribution to the selection of the next POTUS.
***I disagree. I think such statements will make an extremely valuable contribution.
I like how Cogamer had to say it, so once again I’m stealing it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909436/posts?page=158#152
some people on this board are PUSHING it. They not only expect us to grin and tolerate it, they expect us to help!! They see conservatives being marginalized, and then bash conservatives for not supporting the politicians who are marginalizing them. It’s insane!
Let’s look at this through the prism of other movements: Would pro-choice women vote for a politician who announced he wanted to make abortion illegal? Would black voters ever support a politician who wanted to bring back segregation? Would muslims ever support a candidate who was on the record as saying islam was evil?
Would their friends even TRY to tell them they HAD to vote for these candidates even if they didn’t want to?
No! But conservatives are expected to vote for anyone who has an R after their name, no matter how dangerous to the movement, just to avoid the ire of a bunch of wishy-washy phonies whose only brush with conservatism is the fact that they post to this website.
They need to understand - if they nominate Rudy, THEY are responsible for what follows. THEY know many will refuse to support him. So, turning their flawed logic on its head : If they support Rudy, they must actually want Hillary to win. Indeed - if Hillary changed parties they’d be telling us we had to support HER to stop OBAMA!!!!
152 posted on 10/10/2007 6:28:13 PM PDT by COgamer
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