Posted on 02/07/2008 10:39:44 AM PST by Man50D
Romney has now bowed out of the race leaving only McCain, Paul and Huckabee. It's impossible the latter two have any chance of garnering enough delegates to win the nomination. That leaves McCain. He has slapped Conservatives in the face more than enough times by siding with Socialist Democrats on issues. It's clear McCain will take the GOP farther to the left. The question now becomes how many of you have had enough of the GOP abandoning Conservatism and will in turn leave the GOP?
This was all a set up and 'moderate' Republicans are going to be gleeful about putting it in our faces too. They will be gleeful and happy as they are squashed by the New Reich taking hold under Hillary
I heard Michael Savage last nite talking about starting a "Nationalist Party". No other details, except he won't be the candidate- just the architect. Like his personality or not, and I DON'T, you have to give him credit for some very insightful analysis- he pegged GWB way back (as in not a friend of conservatives).
A lot of people on FR have mentioned the need for a third party, and I agree- but it really needs someone like Savage or any talkshow host, with a media platform and large audience to start one.
Not surprised you didn’t answer my question - what are you going to do when he drops out and endorses McCain now that he’s accomplished his ONLY purpose for being in the race?
PS: Somebody tell that slob from Arkansas with the dyed hair and eyebrows and the stomach staple to get the hell out of the way of the process. He is a perverse snake oil salesman.
I plan on sticking around. I’ll not work for the campaign again or support anyone who supports McCain’s leftist agenda. I will work to recruit conservative candidates to run against the establishment hacks and try to help local guys move up to state and national office.
I’ve worked for Republicans since I screwed my grade point average missing classes working for Goldwater. I’ll still work for those who are conservative, but the rest can KMA. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OR SUPPORT A LIBERAL!
I’m looking ahead to the mid-terms with the hope we can purge some of the RINOs then. This presidential race is already lost no matter who wins now.
Never been a party faithful.
I’ve always been a RINO simply cuz it was the only way to vote in the primaries.
If my choice is to hold my nose and eat crap then live with a bad taste in my mouth, or just say no thanks and pass, I’ll pass.
The GOP is untying. They need to UNITE!
I won’t leave without a destination. But in TX, it’s really meaningless- there is no party registration anyway.
“Not unless something better comes along. This is one battle in a long war.”
I’m with you. This has shades of 1976 on it. I’m not out. (They won’t be getting any checks from me until I see some conservatives though).
You mean like the last time we had a Republican majority in Congress?
SCOTUS !
I left Tuesday and will note vote for anyone in NOV. Republicans picked this loser and I’ll be damned if I pick my poison. Hillary or mccain will be diasters, so why bother. mccain is going to drag the whole party down in Nov. I predict Republicans will only have 38 Senators and we lose 35-50 house seats.
No Freeper has left the GOP. It’s the other way around.
We all know the web phenom of the flame-out, the hissy fit storm off post flurry as a person deprives us all of his illustrious presence. And we are all aware that it is hysterical, a piece of laughable self importance.
If you want to go, then just go. Nobody is stopping you. The grace of the angels does not follow your footfalls and desert whoever you desert, that we should run after you, pleading, or follow along.
Welcome to adulthood, where you realize nobody else needs you, they have their own lives, and if you choose to work with them great, and if not fine, and the world will turn regardless.
I wrote this for our state board just a minute before I saw this thread but it fits:
Have any of you ever seen a train wreck? I mean a really~for~truly off~the~tracks train wreck? The fascinating thing about trains is that most of the wrecks occur at relatively slow speed but because of their mass and momentum, they happen over a large distance.
The net effect is that, unlike a car crash that is over in a second or two, you can witness the damage almost at your leisure. The cars just keep going and going, tearing up everything in their path. Witnessing a train wreck is a combination of fascination and horror. It is terrible to behold, but you just can’t bring yourself to avert your eyes.
What we are seeing (in my best humble opinion) is a political train wreck of epic proportion. The cars have come off the tracks and they are chewing their way through the American landscape, shredding and destroying as they go.
Instead of a survival of the fittest, winner takes all wherein the lamest candidates are eliminated, leaving the champion, we are seeing the best cut from the field of contenders, leaving the dregs behind.
I truly can’t imagine what sort of crap will be left by November, but I just can’t bring myself to look away.
And all of this is being “settled” before any of us even get a chance to have our say.
The Republican party is currently the only viable mechanism for political expression for conservatives in this country. Until such time as another party becomes viable, I’m not going anywhere. But I have no interest in subverting or perverting my principles by voting for non-conservatives so my “support” of the party is mutually non-existent. Hell of a bind to be in, isn’t it?!
God help us...
I never left anything. The GOP left me. I did not change, they did.
Not me!
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