Posted on 07/06/2015 6:39:03 AM PDT by demshateGod
If we elect Jeb Bush to be the nominee for the Republican Party, I will relentlessly and effectively push for a third party candidate in the general election.
This Republican primary will determine the fate of the party. There are millions of Republicans that see this time in our country as a turning point. We have a great opportunity to rally together clearly communicate our message to a generation that has never heard the truths and values that so wonderfully make up the conservative stance. Conservative policies work for everyone. They make life better for us all. However, the average American has never been given the opportunity to hear an honest presentation of our principles. I am 35 years old, been voting since I was 18, and have never been given the opportunity to vote for a conservative in the general election for president.
Party leadership and big doners have bought into the theory that if we simply elect someone in the middle, we will get everyone to the right of them and everyone in the middle, while the democrats are stuck with the far left. That is such a flawed simplistic campaign philosophy. The independents and middle voters are often moved by the passions and ferventcy of a candidate's supporters. The Republicans continue to elect candidates that generate no enthusiasm; therefore they fail to persuaded the middle. The conservatives have no passion, no ferventcy for a candidate who doesn't see why all of the conservative positions are crucial. It is not just about "social issues", it is not just about "economic issues", it is not just "foreign policy"; every issue is tied together. They are all related. They will all crumble as you allow one of them to slip away as we refuse to even give the American people an opportunity to hear a voice in descent of the left leaning media, education system, and the leftist politician. The American people have a natural bent towards conservatism. When given a fair presentation, they will more often than not choose values and freedom. If the country has shifted left, it is only because they have been hearing one side of the argument for decades now.
I for one am tired of the ineffective leadership of our party. I am not working for anyone's campaign, I don't work in politics, I am not a lobbyist, just a fed up conservative. And I view it as my pressing duty to make sure that I have the opportunity to vote for a conservative for president in 2016. If that means we have a third party, we split the vote, and the Democrats win... so be it. I know it would take a few election cycles before a conservative alternative to the Republican party would gain traction. But, at least a message would be heard. And my conscience would be at ease knowing that I am done compromising this country to death.
I still think there is hope in the Republican Party. I am not done with it yet. The average voters of the party are good and conservative. The money and power in the party has just been distracted and misled by the media and the insiders. They are detached from reality. If those in influential positions within the party would back conservatives that will communicate their message, not hide it, we will win.
I have never financially contributed to a presidential candidate before, I have never went door to door, or helped get people registered to vote. But if we elect a true conservative, someone like Ted Cruz, perhaps Ben Carson, or maybe with some strong convincing someone else, I will poor myself into their campaign. I will give financially, I will go to the nearest battle ground state and go door to door, I will give myself for this great country that is hurting and struggling so much. But, if we elect Jeb Bush, I will still give financially, I will still go door to door, but it will instead be against the Republican Party in favor of a conservative alternative third party.
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Signed it.
I’m also not going to vote for Pataki or Perry or any other amnesty pimp.
...Vote for a bunch of Republicans and they elected McConnell and Boehner as their leaders who used the IRS to attack conservative groups.
Normalcy bias is extremely powerful. The first thing conservatives need to do is convince their friends and relatives that the GOP is not representing them and have no intention of doing so.
~ attributed to Karl Rove
In reality it would be a second party, an actual opposition party, something outside the entrenched washington power structure.
I will definitely not vote for Jeb.
I knew they’d come calling. The only thing that makes any sense to me is they have a monetary or other self-serving reason for supporting fake conservatives. There are countless articles on FR in which the GOP shows their true colors. Funny, I never see the GOP apologists on those threads.
She would indeed. If Jeb Bush or and equally bad backstabber elitist gets that nomination, they've taken it away from a Constitutional Conservative. Without a real opponent, the forces of evil will not be stopped.
What fits the facts is they vote for liberals in the GOP because they want liberals in the GOP.
If the GOP-e pushes 'el Jebbo' to the nomination, I'm staying home on election day.
Signed!
Party leadership and big doners
therefore they failed to persuaded the middle
I did not create the petition or write it. If those are the only typos, then I’d say he did better than most of the fishwrap writers.
You were eleven seconds late, norm.
Evil never rests. And these people are as evil as those they demand we vote for.
The author should not worry, he’ll be able to vote for Trump in the general. BTW, political power is not given to you. You have to earn it. Conservatives lose b/c we are too fractured.
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