These are mine in the following post from born to Conserve. He said it much better than me, but I once tried to encourage this Freeper who was saying he was tired, he had had it, no more republican party, he wasn't going to do anything but prepare for the end of America. And I tried to tell him, I could understand why he was tired, but if he could hold on, and even vote for romney if he had to, on Jan 21, 2013, we could start organizing to oppose romney at re-election, and a new generation of young people would be on board because of Newt. a lot can be done in 4 years, and no 3rd party this time to screw things up really.
03/16/2012 9:47:19 PM PDT · 65 of 72 Born to Conserve to true believer forever
The dual party system is about to shift on its axis. In the great depression, the distinguishing axis was that of socialism vs individual rights. During WWII and the Cold War, the distinguishing axis was socialism vs national defense. Now we’re going back to the socialism vs individual rights.
Seeing the pattern? We have to quash socialism once and for all. Get rid of the red menace, and everything else will resolve itself.
What to expect: the republican party is going to split, the “Tea Party” will form, the big government socialists will go to the democrat party and the republican party will cease to exist. In the democrat party, the moral conservatives will go to the Tea Party, and the socialists will remain. For this election cycle, Romney will win, and will be the last Republican (in name) president. During his reign, the representatives and senators will start taking sides, of the aisle, literally. The left (democrats) will support Romney, the right (Tea Partyers) will oppose him.
“the moral conservatives will go to the Tea Party”
I don’t completely agree with this. I see some moral conservatives that are quite comfortable with programs like Social Security etc. Many conservative Catholics, for instance, adhere to “social justice” doctrine. Furthermore, I see a statist/nanny state streak among some conservatives ala Mike Huckabee. I don’t think it would be a 100% shift. Do you?
Before anyone jumps on me I mean no offense. Just making an observation. Not making judgements.