I am a Conservative, and I do not see many Conservatives in office, this includes our President. He has many Conservative principles, but over all, he is far from being a Conservative. I knew this in 2000 and 2004, but I voted for him. If I the majority of the voting public that want Conservatives in office would have voted 3rd party, then Al Gore (or Kerry) would have picked the US Supreme Court Justices. That is a fact.
Here is what I am saying......
The Marxist Liberals want a Collective Socialist society, and they are changing the democrat party to just that. Look how much it has changed since President Kennedy. Changing a political party to move in a direction can be done.
If you vote 3rd party or write in, the end result is the dame as voting democrat. And all those people that did just that this last election can sit back on their "principle", but I now live in this Country with the democrats running congress. Those that voted 3rd party screwed America in 2006. Harry Reid is now the Senate Majority leader. Nancy Pelosi is now the House Speaker. Do you think for a minute this "Helps" us? President Bush is not a true Conservative, but he picked a couple great Supreme Court Justices, he certainly did better that Algore would have done, thank God President Bush won.
I am saying that the statement of"If it takes the complete destruction of the republican party as a viable political force to create a truly conservative party then so be it." is wrong. I do not think it will work. I think it is destructive to the USA. Roodie is a RINO, he stands for things I despise. He is pro-abortion, he is a gun grabber. But so are the democrats!!! Who would be better in the War on Terror? Who would pick better Supreme Court Justices? Who would protect Capitalism and the Free Market better? Him or Hillary? Vote 3rd party and the result is the same. As Rush says “Election Results have Consequences.”
I am not trying to get a flame war going, I am not trying to be insulting to you. I do think this is an extremely important thing for all of us to discuss. We need to talk about this allot for the next 11 months. All of need to get this out in the open, it is to important to get polarized and close minded over. We need to analyze the long term results. Rb ver. 2.0 believes the long term results of destroying the Republican Party would be a new strong Conservative Party. I disagree with that opinion. IMHO I believe the Republican Party can be moved more towards Conservative Principles. Destroy it, and you will destroy our freedom, and never get the chance to build up a new stronger party.
jveritas, thanks for beginning this dialog. Grego, thanks for your very reasoned and respectful post.
It’s good we’re all ‘discussing’ this...and, when all is said and done, I hope we all come to the conclusion we are AMERICANS before we are conservatives, republicans, independents, etc. Except for Paul, sure seems like any of the R candidates would be better for America than Hillary or Obama.