Posted on 12/23/2015 6:41:23 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Franklin Graham has resigned from the Republican Party and become an independent, declaring that "I have no hope in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or tea party to do what is best for America.
"Unless more godly men and women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for trouble," Graham, 63, wrote on Facebook.
Graham called on "Christians, even pastors, across the country to pray about running for office where they can have an impact.
"We need mayors, country commissioners, city council members, school board members who will uphold biblical values."
The budget deal was widely slammed by Republicans and conservatives last week, who charged congressional leaders — including new House Speaker Paul Ryan — with "betrayal" for putting through a spending plan that financed many of President Barack Obama's programs.
Besides Planned Parenthood, other Obama efforts that were fully financed under the deal were Obamacare, sanctuary cities, climate change, refugee resettlement programs — and well as an increase in foreign worker visas.
"It is as though Nancy Pelosi is still running the House and Harry Reid is still running the Senate," radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh charged on Friday. He was referring to the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate.
"'Betrayed' is not even the word here," he said.
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What a dummy Franklin is. Here people are finally realizing they need to register Republican asap (ditchandswitchnow.com) so they can vote for Trump, and he goes and drops out before he could make his vote count in the primary. Even if he lives in a state where, by the time his primary is held, the winner may already be determined, this move of his may influence others to do the same, in early primary states. Sad.
They've made a mistake from which they will not recover.
Be sure you vote in the primary for the doctor lady running against the ever popular McPain.
NC primary is too late to make a difference: they must have moved it to the regular May primary after Reagan staged a mini March comeback in 1976.
That’s the right approach. Leaving Republican primaries makes no sense, but you can sit out awful nominees in the general election, as I did with John Cornball in 2014.
My freshman Congressman attends our monthly Conservative book club (discussion) meeting when he’s in town, and I shall see him on Mondaynight. He’ll get an earful, for sure.
Yes, Kelli Ward, already planning on it. I’ve been in touch with her to work with her campaign.
Good thinking, or the RRP “The Real Republican Party”.
Ditto bump. The e-GOP is rolling around in the same gutter they visited in 1964 when the People nominated Barry Goldwater, and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York denounced the Goldwater delegates, in prime time, at the convention, as "Nazis" and "fascists". The networks ate it up.
The donor class took their marbles and went home after the People passed up William Scranton and Rockefeller. Goldwater lost 65-35%, and the practical result was the creation of a vast, permanent, tax-fueled political machine at the federal level that would strap around State sovereignty and make direct payments, with no State input, to subordinate entities, thus tying them to the Johnson Machine.
And he did many other things we all know about.
The RiNO's did all that.
Don’t worry, be happy.
He’s got a point there.
We Must Retire McCain/
The cost will be great.....but the outcome will be fantastically worth it. I know that God will be with us and this gives me great HOPE! ;-)
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