This is why I was hoping that the GOP would lose in 2014 (don't take that to mean I wanted the Democrats to win, I want them to lose, too); but the truth of the matter is that the Republicans are Democrats: There is no particular policy in which they are willing to stand up fo, and they're all too happy to stand around wringing their hands saying Oh, we can't do anything!
SunkenCiv:
If the GOP is permanently the opposition party, then there won’t need to be a GOP, because the Demagogic Party will always be in control. But that’s the goal of “third party” advocates anyway.
The GOP isn't an opposition party, they just play one on TV — at this point there's nobody standing up for liberty, nobody standing against statism.
DiogenesLamp:
If Jeb's the nominee, I advise everyone to send him down in flames by voting for the Liberal Democrat. It is the only means by which we *might* teach the establishment a lesson.
So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth."
We don't have to go quite that far (voting for the Liberal Democrat, I mean); simply going to some third party would work.
I voted for Gary Johnson in 2012 because Romney was/is completely unacceptable to me; if he hadn't run I would have gone with FR's own EternalVigilance; if I hadn't known of EV's candidacy I would have voted Constitution party or possibly Alan Keys.
In short, don't fall into the two party system
trap, and don't play into their you have to vote Republican
crap… they don't own your vote, make them earn it by actually standing up for what you want.
I might as well be living in Singapore or Commie China or some other one party political system with a capitalistic economy.
Singapore has laws against defaming the different ethnic groups, controls media and arrests anyone who protests too loudly against the system or organizes any new political party (COMMIE OR TEA PARTY?????).
One party rules with some scattered independent opposition there.
>>The GOP isn’t an opposition party, they just play one on TV — at this point there’s nobody standing up for liberty, nobody standing against statism.
It’s only an opposition party during the election. Then it reverts back to being the Chamber of Commerce Wing of the Progressive Party, in “opposition” to the Organized Labor and Welfare Wing of the Progressive Party.
One side wants an impoverished, government subsidized labor pool and the other side wants an impoverished, government subsidized labor pool.
Freedom is not a part of their platform. Freedom makes people think they have value as an individual.
Totally agree. I will NEVER support one of these creeps again.
If it’s Hillary vs Jeb, it won’t make any difference to me.
I will still vote on some other offices but I will not vote for president. That or I will vote 3rd party.
I would wonder about a “sin on purpose” strategy
“....but the truth of the matter is that the Republicans are Democrats....”
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Yup, sadly enough, you’re right.
My only contribution goes to the Tea Party and no longer to the GOP.
If conservatives think that the 2016 GOP presidential nominee is too liberal, I hope many of those conservatives will vote for the Constitution Party candidate, if those conservatives know that the race won’t be close, in their state. If they live in WY, UT, ID, AL, or MS, those conservatives know that the Republican will win their state. If they live in NY, MA, CA, DE, or VT, those voters know that the Democrat will win their state. In all of states, 5%-10% could vote for a conservative presidential candidate, without changing who will win their state’s electoral votes. I hope that will cause more republican candidates to be more conservative in the 2017 and ‘18 elections.