Posted on 06/24/2014 8:09:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin joined Sean Hannity to weigh in on the latest election news, and Palin told Hannity that it would be hard for her to stay with the Republicans and get excited about them if they continue acting like Democrats and rolling over.
She took a shot at the “status quo” politics of people like Senator Thad Cochran and said the Eric Cantor upset shows people want strong constitutionalists in power who don’t represent “the man [or] the establishment” in Washington.
Hannity asked Palin if she would actually follow through on her previous hints she’d go third party. Palin replied, “If Republicans are gonna act like Democrats, then what’s the use?” She said the GOP needs to thrive and stand strong against the president’s policies, otherwise “it does no good to get all enthused about them anymore.”
Watch the video below, via Fox News:
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Sadly, no. They are real Republicans, in office, wielding power that can create tyrannical law, acting like Democrats, no "pretending" about it.
Yep. As Yogi Berra might have said, we've reached a fork in the road as "Republicans," and it's time to take it!
Thanks for the ping.
I have never seen such a corrupt, disingenuous Republican primary campaign in my entire, long life. If I were still allowed to vote there, I would write in McDaniel’s name on the general election ballot.
Barbour’s machine is rivaled only by the Chicago machine.
That is so disappointing, and very disgusting, to me.
I am becoming increasingly aware that the "pie in the sky" thinking is that the Republican party could change direction in time, especially considering its legit image of hypocritical opportunist -- don't squawk at me, I've always voted Republican, for 35 years, until 2012. It was ludicrous and insulting for the Republican party to have expected my vote. Apparently they think I'm a ninny. I'm not, and neither were most Americans, who rejected the whole charade of getting to choose between Coke and Pepsi.
No person shall be eligible to participate in any primary election unless he intends to support the nominations made in the primary in which he participates.Mississippi Code Section 23-15-575
There is no reasonable possibility that the Democrats courted to vote for Cochran in the primary, will vote for him in the general.
Notice the “Secret ballot” remark in the close of that? That’s there because it is against the law in Mississippi to vote, in the general election, for the candidate of a political party that you did NOT vote for in the primary. Vote GOP in the primary? You must vote GOP in the general. Cochran won the primary with voters who are going DEM in the general.
We HAVE/HAD 3rd parties. How did they do?
Glad Reagan didn’t give up, even though he lost before winning the big prize. Ronald Reagan wasn’t afraid to fight the GOPe.
Did Reagan take back the Democratic Party or did he leave it? Or rather did the Democratic Party leave him and he try to get it back? No! The GOP for the past 20 plus years has been controlled and all agenda set by the OWNED GOP-E. Time to walk away and rebuild elsewhere. Let their rotted house come down around them.
How many presidents, or congresspeople, or senators have we had from 3rd parties so far?
3rd parties is not a new concept. They already exist.
Oh but he most certainly did give up. Perhaps you forgot he used to be a Democrat. how did he switch to the GOP without giving up? When the dems presented him with the reality of the day just as the GOP has presented us with their reality of today, he wisely saw a losing proposition in remaining a Democrat and...wait for it...
Gave up.
Then hammered them through a wall in a new party.
My thoughts exactly!
Bust up the GOP-E cabal.
Send Haley Barbour, McCain and others, of that ilk, to the wood pile.
Reagan didn’t give up when the GOPe was against him. Ask Mark Levin.
Reagan LEFT the Dem Party, because they were worse. He did not start a third party. He changed the GOP Party for the better. Let’s do that again. We MUST. We CAN.
Well let's see the first Third Part POTUS was Lincoln. Actually when the GOP was formed the nation was close to where it is now a failed political party or several who fail to properly represent the people. The GOP formed in 1854? as one of many third parties at the time which eventually merged into the party know as The GOP.
Yes it can be done. It was done when there was no wide spread media to get the word out fast yet within a decade they had elected a POTUS. The "where else can the voters go" nonsense was propaganda generated by King RINO Gerald Ford in a comment he made to W in 2000. It's nonsense. Get some Conservatives behind it and the current GOP would be a third party by 2016 elections definitely by 2018.
The fear within the GOP is this. They don't care about Conservatism or even agenda. All the way up through the GOP hierarchy from local election commissions, state party officers, to federal offices, the party leadership fear Independent voters ending their choke hold on the party more than they fear the DEMs. So to keep their power as they have since 1994 they become one with the DEMS. The Parties over. It died sometime in mid to late 1995. It's time for The Wake and to move on.
No. We have tried your way since Bush1 changed it back to what it was. Tell someone still stupid enough to believe the change from within crap. History shows nearly 30 years of that nonsense have a GOP now indistinguishable from and begging support from Democrats.
Fact.
We don't have time to run this marathon before Oboingo collapses the whole system. We need men and women of steel now, we don't have a decade.
I don't want to run in their race anymore. Time to start our own game....
Most people including diehard GOP loyalist do not know what happened after the 1994 elections. There was a major coup within the GOP. People would be real surprised to learn of the names behind it. They need to start reading here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Paxon Most persons likely never heard the name or remember him. Now for an extra added bonus who was the other keynote speaker at the 1996 GOP Convention besides Christie Todd Whitman?
The keynote speaker answer can be found here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Republican_National_Convention Who is the keynote speakers spouse?
OPEN PRIMARIES sunk McDaniels....STUPID OPEN PRIMARIES!!! Democrats NEVER have OPEN PRIMARIES!!
“Only problem is, as we all know, it helps Dems. I say let’s take Reagan’s Republican Party back.”
No such animal. There is only one party, the uniparty.
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