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The Republicans are Toast

johnny2k.com — Decades long, historical support for Republicans, local, state and federal, have been jeopardized by the callous treatment of our fellow conservatives by Republican party politicians. It is high time for us all to make our own decisions regarding our future. The future of conservatives with the Republican party is bleak. Time to move on!

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johnny2k 72 days ago

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Krisgi, on 05/15/2008, -12/+3Buried. Along with your party.
- johnny2k, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14And that is the scary thing! Didn't you read this?
  - IconoclastStill, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Sorry . . . meant to do thumbs up and missed. My bad . . . :-(
- drachemorder, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14If you don't like conservative articles, don't friend people who digg them and don't read them. Problem solved.
drachemorder, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11I'm feeling the same way. I'm only considering voting for McCain myself because the alternative is completely unacceptable. Unless the Republican party makes a drastic change and embraces true conservative policies like limited government, low taxes, and traditional values, it will be condemned to a small minority for many years to come.
Conservatives will demand representation, though. Currently there is very little of that. Something will have to fill the gap left by the failing Republican party.
- vault, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4I'm not really convinced this is a 'years to come' issue. I think the swing voters are just unhappy with the war and the economy, blame Republicans for it, and are leaning left because of that. You couldn't follow Bush with a diehard conservative candidate and expect to win.
  
  I don't really care for McCain and he wasn't my first, second, or third choice for Republican nominee. But I'm voting for him exactly because of what you said, that the alternative is completely unacceptable.
  - drachemorder, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2"You couldn't follow Bush with a diehard conservative candidate and expect to win."
    
    That depends. If people are fed up with the status quo, you need a candidate that makes a case that he's not the status quo. A strong conservative would be just as much a radical departure from the status quo as a strong liberal --- witness the dissatisfaction we conservatives have with the Republicans right now. He'd just have to make it extremely clear that he represented a different approach since he'd be from the same party as the incumbent.
    
    The problem is that McCain is NOT a departure. He IS the status quo.
    - vault, on 05/18/2008, -1/+1That candidate would be a departure in the wrong direction, is my point. The far right doesn't really represent the majority of Republican voters.
AlwaysAwake, on 05/15/2008, -3/+5There's always Ron Paul. Or are Republicans not ready for the whole truth yet ? I've been a life-long Independent who always ended up voting Dimmicrat. But this guy I'd vote for in a heart beat. And once the party got behind him, he is electable. Trouble is, the Big Boys have too much to lose, and would sit on their wallets.
DWposts, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I respect John McCain's service, but not is judgment or leadership. I will not vote for him. There's always that thought in the back of my mind that says "the lesser of two evils is still . . .evil."

I don't recall during the Nixon administration if it was Pat Buchanan or Nixon himself that said "we (conservatives) are the (n-word)s of the Republican party." It's true, like (majority of) American blacks to the Democrat party, conservatives feel like there's no place else to go. It's time to revolt and get off the plantation, and it will not be painless.

I have always viewed the Democrats as a coalition of very narrow special interests under one umbrella, and as the differing interests became more extreme they would turn against each other. However the delirium with Obama is frightening - each special interest hears only what they want to hear and their eyes glaze over. With 90% of American blacks voting for Obama it's not likely they will break their chains of enslavement to the Dems anytime soon.

I hope that conservatives are not equally as brainwashed to the Republicans. After all, I'm not sure that there is a significant penalty for not voting for McCain since his views are so similar to the Dems. With only the choice of Rs or Ds, I think we wind up with pretty much the same thing.
savvyconsumer7, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Read the platform at
America's Independent Party National Committee ... http://www.aipnc.com or
http://SelfGovernment.US
A new conservative party was birthed this month ... the website is under construction, but the platform is posted.

Take a look ... see if this will be a party you can proudly support.
- flip2trip, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Alan Keyes? :)
flip2trip, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2I've just about decided that it might be better for the Republican party to lose this election and to lose many seats in the house and senate. Maybe that would wake them up to the fact they have abandoned the traditional conservative values that got them elected in the first place. It's time the conservatives took the party over again. Ronnie is probably spinning in his grave.
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