Posted on 10/22/2014 2:21:52 AM PDT by servo1969
Rank-and-file Republican sycophants will assuredly line up to vote for them filled with Pollyannaisms that things will change with the GOP at the helm.
So what are we going to do about it? Are we just going to sit around and complain about the establishment? We did that back in 2012 and ended up with Romney. Personally, I think Romney’s supposed candidacy is a smokescreen for another candidate. The media will clamor around Mitt. He’ll go around the country setting up potential donors and then he’ll announce he’s not running. All the money and organization that Mitt put in place will be given to an establishment Republican. Myself, I think it’s Paul Ryan, the “fake” conservative.
If you see him mount a campaign for governor of Wisconsin you might see that as a stepping-stone to a presidential bid, but not now.
I’m beyond ready for an alternative to the GOP.
While I still vote majority Republican, the days of my voting straight ticket are behind me.
People here will screech about it but I’m done with having Republicans rub my nose in poo until election time rolls around then expecting my vote.
Nope nope nope.
President Hillary....
Ben hasn’t quite got it right either. It’s not just border security or religious freedom. Two huge issues that both are off on are 1) stopping and reversing illegal immigration altogether, and 2) repealing Obamacare altogether.
Add in 3) energy independence and you’ve got a rational big three to go after. Some specific additional tax, spending and regulatory rollbacks (e.g., removing incentives for common core) could round out a top five.
The big theme is conservatism, Constitutional freedom, and a more limited role for government.
Ted C. is the only prospective candidate who aligns with this, though he’s short on the ideal, happy warrior, disposition.
Romney, who couldn’t beat McCain (who couldn’t beat Obama), will surely beat Hillary! after having lost to Obama!
You go, GOP!
That's 44 percent of those who will bother to show up and vote in a primary, by definition the most active of generally conservative Americans.
Which means at probably very most 25% of the country wants a truly vigorous conservative, one that would be popular here at FR.
I agree entirely with your sentiment, but to me the point is not that we run ‘centrists’, but that we have let the left define what the center is. The Democrats are anything but centrist. Obamacare is not centrist. Broad amnesty is not centrist. Sending subpoenas to church pastors demanding their sermons is not centrist. Pulling out all our troops from a war that we just spent American lives and American treasure to win - and thus letting Iraq fall into the hands of a worse set of terrorists than we ousted is not centrist. Using the IRS as a tool of coercion and suppression of the political opposition is not centrist. Letting people fly to the US from countries with Ebola outbreaks - because of some unyielding adherence to a ridiculous type of political correctness is not centrist. etc. etc.
Cruz, to me, is a centrist on most issues. Enforcing our sovereignty by having control of our borders is ‘centrist’, as just one example.
I see no sign that anything will change for 2016.
And this is the problem. Anyone who witnesses the words and increasingly fascist actions of the Demonic Party and its supporting sociopathic libtard base over the last 30 years and still believes that they share "the same underlying values", is too stupid to be in any position of power or authority.
Conservatives will go for novelty, instead of backing one person in the primaries, splitting the vote and then screaming about RINOs.
Those guys get behind one candidate early and back them to the hilt.
No matter how good the conservative canidate is, idiots will nit-pick the person to death rather than soil themselves with a real conservative that isnt 100% perfect.
Romeny has 'no fire in the belly' for politics
McClain who has proved he cant tell enemy from friend, and insists on being called a 'maverick', rather than the truth : "pre-alzhiemers".
Hitlary , who can't outrun her history of disasters, and who is in reality, Saul Alynski, or just another "community organizer" without a zampolit.
and Karl Rove , who hasn't won an election in years, except in his mind,, would rather have Repubies as Demorat-lite.
The stoopid party. They are pathetic feckless losers.
some of us were advocating and executing a general strike against the GOP in 2012 for nominating Romney and trashing the Tea Party.
Unfortunately 97% of Freepers rolled over and called us traitors.
What do you think now?
The establishment in both parties offer the same ride: Hell in a hand basket, the speed just varies.
you were wrong then and still wrong now
the solution is the GOPc that is being strengthened by the Tea Party efforts.
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