Are all the federal bureacracies controlled by the Democrat Party?

MAYBE folks would remember that for the next election when they are too high minded to vote for someone not quite conservative enough for them. But not likely. <<

I feel your pain.....but it's hard to vote for someone that wants to take my freedoms away at a “slower pace” then the previous guy in the seat.....going slower in the wrong direction is still THE WRONG DIRECTION!
Think of it from another perspective....if u find yourself in a sea of quick sand up to your waist and look ahead to see people in up to their noses.....Do you follow blindly thinking that everything will be ok if the leaders just marched a little slower?

correct that!...

.....Do you follow blindly thinking that everything will be ok if the “HIGH MINDED” leaders just marched a little slower?

Maybe the solution is for us to get off our duffs and find people to run who DO meet our specifications. Failing that, we are still better off with someone who’s 80% with us than someone who’s 0% with us.

The quicksand and all other rationalizing analogies fail in that at least one is still alive under one scenario with hope for a knight in shining armor to come along and save the day vs. being totally dead and beyond any hope at all.

You got the “rationalizing analogy” perfectly!!.... now get off your duff and join “US” in fighting the 51% to 80%ers....just because your not up to your nose yet is no rationalization that you're going in the right direction!

but your right in one respect...you'll have lost most of your “high minded” Troops when YOU finally see the light and feel the quicksand tickling your nose!!

Its time YOU changed your direction!...not us....become a “Force Multiplier”....not a “Force Splitter”.....(all IMHO of course)

I guess I should have posted a “/sarc” for y’all. I was kidding when I posted that.

I’m well aware of the difference between the political elites and the bureaucrats.

Last time they pulled the amnesty scam on us, I wrote down the numbers of all of the senators and I called every one. I wrote down my talking points listed and numbered so that I would remember them clearly and I started calling with lots of emotion in my voice. I didn’t have to fake that emotion, I really felt it. Here I go again, and again and again as many times as I have to.

Bush didn’t exactly turn out to be one of us either.

I am totally in agreement with you, we have to vote for whoever is on the ballot and I don’t think that means George Washington. Our best chance is to financially support and vote for the best candidate in the primaries then if your candidate does not win, you have to vote for the Republican that is on the ballot. If you do not like that Republican you can still try to influence him by citizens’ action.

It is frustrating to have people say that voting for a lesser evil is still an evil. Well, what choices do we have? We can count our choices on the fingers of one hand: we can vote for a democrat, we can vote for a republican, we can refuse to vote or we can vote for a third party. If you refuse to vote because you are too pure to vote for the lesser evil than you are in effect voting for the greater evil because that is the effect that you are having on the election, if you vote for a third party that does not stand a chance of winning then you are wasting your vote. Voting for a third party candidate would only be feasible if the candidate is polling close enough to the Democrat to win.

I think the republicans could have won in 2012 and 2008 if some of these stubborn conservatives would have actually gotten out and voted. But no they kept their political purity and let the country go into the hands of a marxist, when the country was in a 16 trillion dollar debt. I read some people saying that they want things to collapse and get really bad. Are they crazy? Do they know what really bad could look like? What if we sink to the bottom and just sit there. I keep thinking about the mess of the Weimar Republic and how it paved the way for the Nazis and Hitler. This is what happens when things get really bad because people are not thinking clearly when they are in a panic, they will vote for the devil himself to get them out of their suffering, which is exactly what the people did when they voted for Hitler.

Also look at how the Great Depression brought Franklin Roosevelt into power. People were hungry and desperate and he was just the kind of false hero who rose to the occasion with many big government programs. We still have not gotten over FDR and many of the Republicans have an inferiority complex because they are not the party of FDR. The Great Depression was over 70 years ago and we are still not out from under the mind and tax enslavement of FDR. Bad stuff usually just brings about more bad stuff, it is better to just hang on by a thread if necessary, than to let go and suffer the consequences.

Bush kept lots of Clinton’s old baggage. Nice guys finish last.

Here's a question no Romney supporter has ever answered to my satisfaction: why should I vote for a Statist and a Socialist when I hate those philosophies? Moreover, why the hell do you say that a vote for someone else is a vote for Obama? That is only telling me that my vote does not count (unless it's for your anointed candidate).

I hate those philosophies too - at least Romney knew that what could be done at State level, could not be done at Nation level because of that pesky thing that we call the Constitution. I didn't say that a vote for someone else was a vote for Obama, but it really might as well be - all them votes for others helped put Obama back in the WH - your vote did count, but not for anything useful. When your choice has a chance to actually make a difference, then the vote is worthwhile. When all your vote does is send a message to those who do not listen, your vote says that you prefer Obama to anyone who can't walk on water. The Dims are very happy with folks with your mindset because they know that it will keep giving them extra opportunities.

Really? How much does the president control -- or, to put it another way, how much of the government stays in-place when the President changes? That's one strike against a Romney presidency changing things. How much would there be any change even if he wanted to effect it, keeping in mind that politically Romney is Obama [that is there is no difference large enough to matter policy-wise]? That's two strikes against him. How about the vaunted "supreme court appointment" argument? If you look at the appointments Romney made as Gov then you'll see a bunch of statist, socialist law-reinterpreters. That's three strikes against him.

Haven't you been paying attention to all the "czars" and folks like Holder/Napolitano and oh-so-many more? How about a HHS department that was no elected but will have the latitude to decide exactly how much additional pain must be exacted for the "HealthCare" deal? Go ahead and rail at Romney, but he understood that it was unconstitutional. How about the EPA that ignores Judges? If you don't think that Obama is doing much more damage than Romney, I suggest you move to Colorado and take advantage of the legal pot.

You can rail all you want about how flawed Romney was, but it doesn't change that you couldn't vote for a paler shade of Gray so you opted to let Inky Black continue to rule the roost - great strategy and if you keep working hard at it, you can continue to justify it. Of course you come across like Nancy or Harry when you do - everyone knows its just a way to make you sound like you have the upper hand in morality as you aid and abet the evil side. When the other side will stick together to gain millimeters, we will never stop them if we demand someone who is superior to us in every way.

Yes ... but some of them do put an "R" behind their names instead of a "D".

No they don't. No unelected government employee dares state they are from the enemy camp. Name some prominent Republican teachers for example.

No, we lost because the elites pushed Romney on the rest of us

Your ilk re-elected Obomber.

You can rail all you want about how flawed Romney was,

My issue isn't about how flawed he was; my issue is he is a statist and a socialist, and in that regard the same as Obama.
Again, why should I vote for someone who espouses philosophies that I hate?

but it doesn't change that you couldn't vote for a paler shade of Gray so you opted to let Inky Black continue to rule the roost

It wasn't a "paler shade of gray" it was the same shade of gray with a different color undershirt to make it look different.

I hate those philosophies too - at least Romney knew that what could be done at State level, could not be done at Nation level because of that pesky thing that we call the Constitution.

This is untrue: if you hated those the you would at the very least respect the decision of someone not to vote for them.