Tell that to the Elites who are using slash and burn Tactics to try to destroy Conservatives at every damned turn...
Remember Mississippi!!!!
If the GOPe would embrace the tea party movement instead
of trying to smother and destroy it, splintering wouldn’t
be necessary...
Reform what?
The Democrats of the 1960’s and 70’s have more in common with Tea party values than the Repugs today.
I will NOT hold my nose and vote anymore. If that means Obamatrons stay in power, then so be it.
What do you think the Tea Party is trying to do?
And what happened in Mississippi?
When the GOPE start using the same tactics against conservatives as the Democrats, it is time to go somewhere else.
We’ve been trying to reform from within. Mississippi is one example of where that has gotten us: an even more corrupt GOP fighting to hang onto their surrender power.
The Tea Party isn’t doing the splintering only exposing who the fake GOP RINOs are by their own actions. If anything the Tea Party is purifying the party.
Welcome to Free Republic.
I suspect your stay here may be tumutuous, and may end up being short.
The GOOP CANNOT BE REFORMED short of WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS.
The liberal republican party must be destroyed, either at the primary, or in the general election.
It must be a political kiss of death to run as a liberal republican.
I don't vote for liberals. The republicans have problems running candidates that match their own party platform.
/johnny
To put it another way, there is no longer a GOP. There are two Democrat parties.
Fine. Tell the stupid - The GOPe - of the stupid party, to sit down and STFU.
We’re tired of their talking out both sides of their mouth, wer’e tired of them being dem lite. We’re tired of them tellings what we want to hear, what we expect them to do if elected, and then completely disregarding once in office.
And Mississippi was the LAST STRAW! So, according to the stupid people, we’re now racists.
FU and the horse you rode in on.
GOP-elites have been making that claim for years — where are the conservatives going to go?
GOP-elites don’t seem to really care whether they win, as long as those in power and position can retain their status quo. The consultants still get their big checks. The elites still get their invites to the Washington dinner parties.
They LUV the status quo.
Any allegience I had to the GOP was hanging by the merest thread. Then came Mississippi. They can take the scare tactics and shove ‘em. I’ve held my nose and eaten the sh!t sandwich for the last time.
And I suspect I’m only one of hundreds of thousands.
LOLOLOL! Pure. What a joke.
The republicans can't manage to make sure their candidates match the party platform.
Purity isn't required. Matching the party platform (no abortion, pro-2nd amendment, no socialized medicine, NO AMNESTY, and smaller government) would be enough.
/johnny
MS proved beyond a reasonable doubt that reforming the GOP from within IS FOLLY and an impossibility.
It’s as stupid as the insisted belief that if the Colonists petitioned, prostrated and ‘worked within the system of Parliament” that their redress of grievances would be heard and settled.
Separation and Independence are the ONLY options when an institution is thus so corrupted as we have experienced.
Elections are moot at this point forward anyway. We have a Soviet system now.
The GOP needs to find common ground, but it must be common ground within the limited government parameters specified in the Constitution. I’m happy to have a debate on how rapidly FedGov should be shrunk back to its enumerated powers. What I cannot support is a debate over how quickly FedGov should expand to control every aspect of our lives (beyond the current light bulbs, toilet flush volume, size of soft drinks, whether we pay for an employee’s recreational sex and subsequent abortions, etc.).
The GOPe needs to compromise with conservatives on which unconstitutional programs and which ineffective but lawful programs will be eliminated and how quickly. The GOPe needs to compromise with conservatives on whether illegals should be deported; jailed and then deported; or jailed, fingerprinted & DNA swabbed, permanently barred from lawful reentry and from any path to citizenship, and then deported.
Why would anybody want to “reform” a rotten and corrupt party? The GOP power structure has sold out principle for power. They are corrupt, they are immoral, they are rotten. The entire structure is rotten.
Now, rotten is what is expected from the dems, but how do you fight rotten with rotten?
Time to raze the rotten old house and build something new...WITHOUT the corrupt PsOS that have corroded the current building.
I generally agree.
But I like the term take it over, or take control, rather than reform.