[Carthego delenda est]

I have come to believe that the GOPe does not care if their guy (Bush) wins the election. They (GOPe) and the libtards have become one party and are pulling off the greatest con job in our nation’s history, perpetuating the idea that ‘they’ are really giving us a ‘choice’ in the voting booth. There is NO other explanation for their fear and hatred of true conservatives.

[OneWingedShark]

Phosgood:
In 2012 the GOP blamed their loss on the Conservatives for “not going to the polls”.
In 2014 the GOP won in a landslide and claimed the GOP “could have done it without the Conservatives support”.
Not voting does not make a statement. I am tired of holding my nose for decades and will not vote for ANY GOP candidate. I WILL vote for a singular Conservative candidate to make one small statement.

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.

[itsahoot]

There is NO other explanation for their fear and hatred of true conservatives.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." Mark Twain -

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I have come to believe that the GOPe does not care if their guy (Bush) wins the election.

Winning elections isn't easy. McCain didn't stand a chance after the economy tanked. And could Gingrich or Cain or Santorum or Bachmann really have won last time?

They (GOPe) and the libtards have become one party and are pulling off the greatest con job in our nation’s history, perpetuating the idea that ‘they’ are really giving us a ‘choice’ in the voting booth.

Certainly most of the time the two parties' candidates are closer to each other in views than most passionate Republicans and Democrats or conservatives and liberals are, but there has to be some reason why passionate partisans hate the candidate of the other party so much nowadays.

There is NO other explanation for their fear and hatred of true conservatives.

Is it really fear and hatred? If Newt Gingrich, say, is a true conservative and Karl Rove isn't, do they really hate each other?