To: exodus
I doubt we disagree much regarding what a conservative is. I just want the Democrats OUT! NOW! The sooner the better. This takes brute force and bludgeoning. No third party can accomplish that. After the death grip has been broken, then we can argue about finesse.
# 113 by Jim Robinson
Let's say that you get what you want. The Republicans win it all. They gain a two-thirds majority in the House and the Senate, and even win the Presidency, by pandering to the liberals. We steal virtually all the Democratic Party's voters.
Now we can work for smaller, less intrusive government! Now we can institute conservative policies! Now we can rid the country of nanny-state do-gooders! Now we can stop the officially sanctioned encroachment of our freedom!
Wrong.
At the first sign that Republicans are going back on their promises to support and extend socialist feel-good policies, the liberals would abandon the Republicans. If that happened, the Republicans would lose their majority.
They would never risk it. Republicans could never alienate their liberal base and still retain power.
In order to draw in liberal voters, Republicans will have to fulfill the desires of socialists. That's the only thing that will bring liberal votes to the party.
If the Republican Party makes a successful power grab by bringing in the liberal vote, the Republicans will become a liberal party.
We must teach the Republicans that to retain our vote, they must consistently support conservative ideas and conservative policies.
The only way to show that we are serious is to vote for third party conservatives.
"If I vote for a Democrat to protest the direction taken by the Republican party, Republicans will point to my liberal vote as the direction they should go to gain my support.
If I vote for a Republican as the lesser of two evils, they'll point to my vote as an expression of confidence in their socialist policies.
If I stay home, and don't vote at all, they'll use statistics to decide why I didn't vote this time, and they'll bend those statistics to mean whatever is convenient for their purposes.
I want a conservative, so I'll vote 3rd party. When I vote for a conservative, even a 3rd party conservative, THERE IS NO QUESTION what it takes to win my vote. I want a conservative, and I won't accept anything less.
Republicans will point to my vote as the direction they need to go in order to gain my support. Democrats themselves will move to the right, as Clinton did in 1992, in an attempt to show me that they believe, just as I do, in freedom."