I still think there are many of those old Blue dog, Reagan, Conservative, ‘Southern’ Democrats around.
If they and the conservative ‘right’ could ever drop the ‘old family political party’ mentality and join forces, they could create a viable political party.
The GOPe would lose so many that they could lose their viability. The Dems also could lose many (they aren’t all liberals and leftists and progressives). The GOPe and Leftist Dems would have to merge or the ‘conservative’ party could blow them away in national elections.
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Otherwise, we are going to see the status quo and that status quo has moved substantially leftward since 2000.
Have you folks heard of Restore America?
David crowe came to speak in Oregon a couple of weeks ago. He says that Evangelical Christians would make up the biggest voting block in the country if we could only get them all registered, and get them voting. His suggestion to us was that’s where we need to focus our ‘Get Out the Vote’ efforts.
I am also pretty depressed about the state of the Republican Party, & the elites that aren’t working for us, but I’m not quite ready to give up on them. Most of the base is conservative. We just need to change our leaders.
So instead of giving up ALL of our Conservative tenants... and yes LIFE is codified in the very first words put to paper by this Republic... then we just have to give up “some” of them? I prefer to remain loyal to the laws of GOD and the words of our Constitution as written.
LLS
I can’t think of one conservative left in the Alabama democrat party. Maybe Bobby Bright, former mayor of Montgomery and my one-term Congressman. We replaced his sorry lardass back in 2010. He told us that he was opposed to Nancy Pelosi, then voted for her as the Speaker. Not a Bright liar at all.