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I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over
The washington Post ^ | July 04, 2018 | Max Boot

Posted on 07/04/2018 10:56:46 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Personally, I’ve thrown up my hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP. I don’t want to be identified with the party of the child-snatchers. But I respect principled conservatives who are willing to stay and fight to reclaim a once-great party that freed the slaves and helped to win the Cold War. What I can’t respect are head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed.

They act, these political ostriches, as if this were still the party of Ronald Reagan and John McCain rather than of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller — and therefore they cling to the illusion that supporting Republican candidates will advance their avowed views. Wrong. The current GOP still has a few resemblances to the party of old — it still cuts taxes and supports conservative judges. But a vote for the GOP in November is also a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonization of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America’s allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators.

That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November. Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must first be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.

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To: the_Watchman

“With a #WalkAway movement going full bore on Twitter (which will not acknowledge it is trending)”

So glad to hear that! :)


21 posted on 07/04/2018 11:04:05 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Hojczyk

“Obviously a Yale man.”

Thurston Howell III


22 posted on 07/04/2018 11:05:01 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Hojczyk
key words used by the Fakes (never trumpers):
* principled
* reclaim party (instead of reclaim country)

23 posted on 07/04/2018 11:05:47 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: Hojczyk

He equates Reagan and McCain?

Writers like Boot, Will, and Noonan are thinking of their careers and their social status rather than the country.


24 posted on 07/04/2018 11:05:56 AM PDT by djpg
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To: Hojczyk

Noting that this is a WAPO piece, if Max is unsatisfied then I hope the door hits his ass on the way out. If anything, the Trump effect is also weeding out the cockroaches who have been hiding behind their elitist titles all these years. Good luck in the new Democrat Communist Party where you apparently belong.


25 posted on 07/04/2018 11:06:26 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Hojczyk

The guy is an over educated retard from Berkley.
He can say anything, he lives in some kind of post reality state.
Needs red pill.


26 posted on 07/04/2018 11:06:42 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Hojczyk

No question!
All nutso...no exceptions...no degrees, stupidity may be a rare case or two...fino!
@PlanetWTF?
;)No Joke!
++++++++++


27 posted on 07/04/2018 11:07:18 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Hojczyk

The WA Compost Heap is great at finding delusional, once great thinkers who have gone over the edge; more propaganda for the useful idiots.


29 posted on 07/04/2018 11:07:31 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Hojczyk

So glad networks won’t be able to claim that this slimeball is a republican any more.


30 posted on 07/04/2018 11:08:02 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Hojczyk

Compare this moron with the 40,000+ Twitter and 60,000+ FaceBook #WalkAway people...


31 posted on 07/04/2018 11:08:18 AM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: Hojczyk
I don’t want to be identified with the party of the child-snatchers.

Oh, brother. Thanks for the input, Max. One word of caution, though - your new co-religionists have a nasty habit of doing much worse things to children than "snatching" them. Hope they put some sugar in your Koolaid.

32 posted on 07/04/2018 11:08:53 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Thanks for the info on Boot: “I am socially liberal: I am pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-abortion rights, pro-immigration“ - Max Boot 2017

Anybody who can’t distinguish between being pro-immigration and pro-*illegal*-integration is intellectually enough of a pinhead to be dismissed out-of-hand.


33 posted on 07/04/2018 11:09:25 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Hojczyk

“That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November. Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must first be destroyed before it can be rebuilterv.!”

He clarified what so called “principled conservatives”!

May Max, Will and all other called “principled conservatives” live a long and miserable life full or hatred for the man trying to save America does his job.


34 posted on 07/04/2018 11:09:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: Timmy

Useful idiot.


35 posted on 07/04/2018 11:10:25 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Hojczyk

See ya, Max. You don’t belong in a party that stands for anything sane. The Democrats will welcome your quisling cowardice and convenient morality.


36 posted on 07/04/2018 11:10:30 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: Hojczyk

Dude, why do you hate America?


37 posted on 07/04/2018 11:10:32 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Hojczyk
The party of Reagan AND McCain?

If this c-sucker thinks this party is fashioned after McCain, that ol son of a B, then he is really devoid of any analytical thinking. I got a little information for this C-sucker. It IS the party of Reagan AND DJT, who has become the most conservative POTUS since Reagan. And some can even claim that he has become the most conservative since GOP POTUS since?.. I aint there yet, but I will tell you what. He is the first POTUS I have ever seen try to do what he promised during his campaign. The problem is that during and after RR terms, these fence sitters joined the ranks of the GOP turning it into the lame party. John Son of Cain never was a conservative and there are lots of others who are as bad as that back stabbing son of a b.

38 posted on 07/04/2018 11:10:43 AM PDT by crz
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To: Hojczyk

With some it takes a little longer for the mentally ill cancer to take root


39 posted on 07/04/2018 11:11:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Hojczyk
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.

The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
This was the state of affairs in the GOP for a very long time. And they were open about it back then as well.
40 posted on 07/04/2018 11:11:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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