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Franklin Graham: 'I Have Resigned From the Republican Party'
Newsmax ^ | 12-13-15 | Todd Beamon

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: evangellicals; franklingraham; gop; newsmax; omnibus; pelosi; plannedparenthood; reid; toddbeamon
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


61 posted on 12/24/2015 1:06:30 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The GOP-e is likely getting an earful this holiday. Having a respected voice like Franklin's surely isn't helping. The anger has not subsided. I'm friggn' gobsmacked at the sell out with this omnibus bill. Establishment candidates fall further back. The message is clear; there is no use for his currently constitued Republican party.

They've made a mistake from which they will not recover.

62 posted on 12/24/2015 4:48:47 PM PST by chiller (One from the Right - One for the Fight)
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To: LS

Be sure you vote in the primary for the doctor lady running against the ever popular McPain.


63 posted on 12/25/2015 5:43:40 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Right-wing Librarian

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.


64 posted on 12/25/2015 5:45:12 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Nickname

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.


65 posted on 12/25/2015 5:47:43 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: chiller

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.


66 posted on 12/25/2015 5:56:42 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Theodore R.

Yes, Kelli Ward, already planning on it. I’ve been in touch with her to work with her campaign.


67 posted on 12/25/2015 6:56:02 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Mamzelle

Good thinking, or the RRP “The Real Republican Party”.


68 posted on 12/25/2015 3:11:32 PM PST by Bellflower (It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
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To: onyx
[Quoting Rush] "'Betrayed' is not even the word here," he said.

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.

69 posted on 12/25/2015 8:03:43 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Don’t worry, be happy.


70 posted on 12/26/2015 10:03:16 AM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

He’s got a point there.


71 posted on 12/26/2015 6:31:14 PM PST by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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To: LS

We Must Retire McCain/


72 posted on 12/26/2015 9:24:45 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: jagusafr

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! ;-)


73 posted on 12/28/2015 11:54:42 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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