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?
I will not vote for President in 2008. I reserve the right to return in 2012.
Leaving the GOP now would be foolish. We are just beginning the battle to take back our party.
I’ll wait till I see what happens but if I were a wagering man , I would venture a wager on Obama taking the whole shootin’ match. He’s raising money faster than his boyz can fill his ledger.
Calm down.
/sarc
I abhor Hillary more than I dislike McCain—but I could never vote for Huckabee and pray he is not the VP nominee. Romney’s pulling out today makes the continuation of the Huckabee nomination irrelevant unless he wants to run as VP.
The day after the nominating process nominates McCain, the wife and I will change our voter affiliation.
Already gone.
Last one in the GOP turn out the lights.
So, what is a "RINO" now anyway? Someone who's not a modern big government, socialist, mainstream Republican?
I guess that would be me, since I'm a conservative. Guess I'm a RINO now - at least until my local election board processes my latest registration application to change my party affiliation to "I". In the meantime, I'm a "RINO".
Screw the Dem-lites!
Already gone.
I am planning to stop by the election office on the way home and switch to Independent. It pains me to do so because I have been a proud Republican since I signed up to cast my first vote for Ronaldus Magnus in 1984. I consider myself a conservative before a Republican, however, and the party has made it abundantly clear that conservatives are no longer welcome by nominating Senator McCain.
I’m not saying I will never come back if the party actually welcomes conservatives again but for now, I am gone.
Vote for Republican senators and congressmen, that is what I say — otherewise we sound like the screaming, flailing kiddies who have been crying since 2000 and threatening suicide because Kerry/Gore didn’t get elected. If you would prefer to hold your breath until you turn blue, or until Al-Qaida finally grows a brain cell and waits for ObamaBoy to be elected and then starts blowing up American daycare centers, while he wrings his hands and feels your pain, do so.
But do not wait up for me.
It’s not the freepers leaving the gop, it’s the gop leaving the freepers. :p
I registered as an American Independent Party member less than five minutes ago.
I suggest others might want to do the same thing. Look, we can always register as a Republican again on a moment’s notice, but registration numbers are seen by the party elite. It’s time they get a wake up call.
You're more than welcome! If this is the way it is to be, then this is the fight we must continue to fight to exhaustion. Quitting is easy, that's why losers take that path. But the next four years are far too important to run away from considering we are at war and have Supreme Court appointments coming up. My Conservative Congressman and Senators need a Republican in the Whitehouse even if it is McCain.
I can't leave them on the battlefield to be completely slaughtered by treasonous Democrats. They are counting on me and you, the electorate, to make the best choice under difficult circumstances.
Fight on brother! It's gonna be a long and exhausting 4 years...
The day I die.
One battle,lifetime war.
Good point. It’s clear the party doesn’t want us except to vote for their liberal hacks. I’m just used to the term.
I guess we should come up with another on for the establishment elites.
I cannot speak for Free Republic Founder Jim Robinson, but can write that he thanked me in a FReepmail for my post. I hope that signifies that there is a message therein that is of great importance to our nation. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966125/posts
“..........we bury it and form a new party,”
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Rest a while, regroup, and go for it.
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