Hale, there are basically two different mind-sets IMO.
One says basically what you have and contemplates voting for the lesser of two evils for the rest of their life, by which time they fully expect to see this nation even further beyond hope than it is now.
One says basically what you have and contemplates allowing the Left to take this nation down quick and dirty, so we can get on with rebuilding. Hell, we’re going to get there anyway.
After a lot of thought and wrestling with what to do, I’m thinking the later group may be the best way to go.
I’m tired of allowing the Republican elites to think they can screw us on turn at a time over the next fifty years.
When the fall comes, they’ll be hurt. You can count on it. At least I’ll get some comfort knowing that.
I got a "survey" begging letter from the RNC today. They told me I'd been selected to voice my "local" opinion about their platform of smaller government, lower taxes, no federal funding abortion, on and on, la de dah... and ended up asking how much I'd like to donate to them to accomplish this. Right. They had the executive, legislative, and thanks to Justice Kennedy, most of the Judicial branches under their wing for eight years and pissed it away. I don't even know how they got my name because I'm registered Constitution Party here. Letter, meet shredder. Amazing. There is little difference between parties due to their corrupt, so called leadership.
It helps to remember that the Clinton-Bush coziness goes back to the days of Iran-Contra, when Papa Bush was supervising covert arms shipments to Latin America out of Arkansas (with drugs making the return trip) and Governor Clinton was busy looking the other way. Further, as was clear during abortive Republican investigations into various Clinton scandals, in the culture of impunity of Washington, politics stops at corruption's edge. Almost all major corruption is either bipartisan or common enough that one side can effectively blackmail the other.
We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years. The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters.
The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.
— Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006
even a stopped clock, etc. ...