Posted on 04/16/2012 12:09:46 AM PDT by Mozilla
Basically the GOP is too divided to ever unite. There is a deep level of distrust and various factions want different things. People do not agree on whom the best candidates are anymore. Us Conservatives, like me, were all over the map as person after person fell apart in the presidential republican primary. Romney is the final nail in the coffin. Newt, to me, has no chance and he has his own baggage. He has a good message though, but it is too late to do much. I personally think it is time to just end the party.
THe facts of life are conservative. Most people are not on the public dole and work for a living.
If conservatives tarted a new national party that could attract 40% every time at minimum, what makes you think they would unite. When Socons call Fiscons not real conservatives, and Fiscons say Socons are big government conservatives, and Socons call libertarians commie appeasers and there is a debate on how to use the military, it makes it hard to believe they will ever come together in some new, mythical party.
I'm conservative but I realize that the country changes with the times. I'm pragamatic about the 21st century US population.
The two parties should be trying to move to the center to capture as much of the voting public as they can. Right now, the GOP is doing a better job of moving to the center as 0bama and the left are trying to move the country to the left. The GOP leadership who is managing the evolution of the party knows what they are doing. I expect that the GOP will win this November's elections because 0bama and the left scare the hell out of the "straights". We need to go with the flow on this one and try to get as much as we can out of it.
We are brothers, SIc Semper Tyrannis.
The Presidential Election is going to have only two results;
America wins
or
America loses
Put me in the third category.
I can tell you what I am doing. For the first one in almost thirty years I am vegetable gardening again and have three cords of wood seasoning and another left over from last year. I am set up to harvest over 12,000 gal of rain a year now and more coming an line. Our needs for food, energy, water can be met right here, right now. Good Luck, and God Bless!
I haven’t voted yet. We’ll see after the dust settles what the future may bring.
Oh, that's funny. The GOP 'leadership' left the GOP a tattered, soul-less shell by the 2008 elections. It was conservative Tea Partiers who made the 2010 election successes possible. But there are always pinheaded twerps like you who break out the RINO pom-poms every four years to try and convince us that the GOP-E has a clue on how to win, let alone govern.
It is NOT too late to push Newt to the top.
Don’t bother waiting for a response.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Conservatives now have about as much power to enforce conservatism in the Republican Party as a lamb has to enforce vegetarianism in a pack of wolves.
This being the case, there is a better way.
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And...finally you just might get the message.
Imagine if more people voted FOR Conservatism instead of accepting and eating whatever steaming plate of poo the party chefs prepared for them.
Too many people running around here with their arms over their heads yelling: "Oh noes! If I don't eat the warm poo, the cold plate of poo wins."
Correct!
what is it with politics and big hair?
Only one has a chance of defeating Obama”
NO!!! NONE of them have a chance at defeating Obama.
Are Conservatives, all of a sudden, going to “love” Mitt Romney? Are they going to rally behind him? Are they going to enthusiastically work for his election? No, they are not.
They will sit on their hands and stay home.
It is time to start a new Conservative Party which will plunge a dagger into the heart of the current establishment Republican Party. Without Conservative support, the Republicans can win NOTHING. Even as a minority, we have the POWER, if only we would exert it.
Good analogy. I'm not buying into the "Do you want Obama II" bit. Of course I don't want Obama II. That's why I'm not voting for him or Romney.
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