I am as sick of the National Republican party as you are but, if we all give up and vote anyone but, we are the ones that will be screwed. We need to do more than complain on the blogs, etc. Get active in the party. It will take time to undo what we have allowed to happen. At lease, in Alabama, we have made great strides.
Many of the old folks here, like my Granpa, voted democrat till the day they died.
I used to argue with him all the time about it. Explaining that the Republicans were no longer the party of Yankee abolitionists and the democrats were just plain old communists...
I did get him once, when, after declaring my desire to vote for Reagan in 1984, he was mad at me, but then I pointed out how Jesse Jackson was running for the dem nomination. He was left sputtering and cursing, but did not have a comeback! He died not long after that, and did not see his democrats auger fully into communism. He would have HATED Obama (he was an old school segregationist).
Still, I ask, are we not seeing such political winds change again? It is not up to me to abandon the Republicans, but up to the party elites. I will always support conservatism; will they?
Note: I do not think this is happening in Alabama too much, but I correspond with Shelby and he is mostly a RINO, too.
Great post mtnwmn! I totally agree.