With greater numbers of real conservatives in its ranks, the party might not have to wheel and deal with the GOP quite so much and might be able to run real conservatives while the bulk of Republicans continue their RINO shoot-your-own-foot joyfest.
Very bright, firebrand. If the Conservatives get 5 percent of the vote, all the Dems have to do is get 46 percent of the vote. I have said over the years on FR that I will vote for a RINO who caucuses with Conservatives.
The real problem, though, is that those under fifty have shifted so far left.
I would guess that 30 percent of my students are bisexual or gay/lesbian—and I teach at a conservative Catholic college.
There is no sense of the constitution, of limited government, of why states are sovereign. There is NO, and I repeat NO, basis for hope among the present generation of opinion makers. Academics will teach only one side. Journalists will print only one side. Ministers are becoming more politically correct every day. Most Rabbis sneer at the conservatives in their congregations.
As Conservatives concentrate on FOX, the other channels are free to mainline liberals. We Conservatives, even those of us high enough among public-opinion makers to make a difference, have placed ourselves in a ghetto.
Instead of pursuing the Black vote and the Hispanic vote since most Blacks and most Hispanics share our conservative values—particularly on social issues—we have been too busy fearing them.
McVey
I was a member of the NYState Conservative Party for 13 years and changed to R to primary a legislator.
I still am active with the state,, the county party is so corrupt I avoid them like the plague. I got into battles with them here locally. The Conservative party that is...