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Title: The Crocodile Tears of the Republican Faithful
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Published: Dec 6, 2012
Author: F.A. Hayek Fan
Post Date: 2012-12-06 20:04:49 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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If you peruse the multiple online Republican (as opposed to conservative) political forums you will find a common theme - the outrage by grassroots Republicans that the Republican Party is once again betraying them. They post article after article of big government Republican politicians and pundits blaming “them” for the Party’s presidential loss. They lament the fact that they are being scapegoated and used as an excuse for the Republican Party to move even further to the left than it already has. Day after day they bitch, moan and whine about their betrayal. They swear they will never vote Republican again. They threaten to leave the Republican Party. These are nothing but crocodile tears. They are meaningless statements which no one but themselves believes. The Republican Party isn’t buying it. Most of these same people have been making the same empty threats for years, sometimes decades, yet every election cycle they not only dutifully march into the voting booth and vote Republican, they mercilessly attack and attempt to intimidate those who refuse to follow their lead. The Republican Party knows this which is why they completely ignore the whining and the threats in between election cycles and consistently capitulates to the Democratic Party and why they run left-wing candidates for president. They have the votes of the Republican faithful locked up. No matter what the Party does, the overwhelming majority are going to vote for them. If the George W. Bush years didn’t cause them to leave the Republican Party then nothing will. This leaves the Republican Party free to do whatever it takes to attract more voters. The last several presidential elections proves that the Republican Party has determined that the best way to attract new voters is by moving to the left, hence Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. By moving to the left on social issues, welfare, and immigration the party hopes to garner votes from authoritarian and pro-war Democrats. So is there a solution to this problem? As long as the Republican faithful care more about beating Democrats than they do about the values and beliefs they claim to hold I do not believe there is a solution. There is a chance that eventually the Republican Party will die off. The Democratic Party has become as authoritarian and war-loving as the present day Republican Party so it will become harder for them to pull authoritarian, pro-war votes from the Democrats by moving to the left. Plus, every election cycle produces a very small minority that has had enough and actually goes through on their threats and vote’s third party or stays at home. With any luck eventually those small minorities will add up over time. The question is do we have the time? Between the police state both parties are aggressively creating and the economy both parties are aggressively destroying, I have my doubts. By the time that minority grows large enough to become meaningful it may be too late.
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#1. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
The Republicans are really comfortable being losers like they were in the 1960's and 1970's: always on the outside looking in and forever railing against their drinking buddies across the aisle during daylight hours....
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0) (Edited)
Yeah, they're bawling their eyes out and blaming the "Paultards", voter fraud, not passing out MittPhones and other freebies, welcoming illegal invaders, kissing Jessie Jackson's behind, bombing Iran back to the stone age when they had the chance, and indefinitely detaining all dissidents in gitmo. Their candidate was a real gem, so it must be something like that! There's no chance that things will get better by voting. the Republican Party has determined that the best way to attract new voters is by moving to the left, hence Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. By moving to the left on social issues, welfare, and immigration the party hopes to garner votes from authoritarian and pro-war Democrats.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: X-15 (#1)
Back in the 60's and 70's they could still get away with pretending they were against the welfare state and believed in small government. The Bush administration pretty much destroyed that sham for thinking individuals (not the Republican faithful). The Republicans are really comfortable being losers like they were in the 1960's and 1970's: always on the outside looking in and forever railing against their drinking buddies across the aisle during daylight hours....
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown
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#4. To: hondo68 (#2)
I tend to agree but I'm not willing to martyr myself by taking up arms and I refuse to not participate so voting is the only option I have. There's no chance that things will get better by voting.
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown
I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT!
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#5. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
While I can see how you could reach that conclusion I think it is more a matter of the Republican Party being controlled opposition just as the Demoncrat Party is when occasion arises. Ron Paul scared them because he actually was what he represented himself to be - a threat to the corrupt power structure. The last several presidential elections proves that the Republican Party has determined that the best way to attract new voters is by moving to the left, hence Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.
#6. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0) (Edited)
Bullshit. They are meaningless statements which no one but themselves believes. Now that's true. They don't know what else to do. The last several presidential elections proves that the Republican Party has determined that the best way to attract new voters is by moving to the left, hence Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. That's why it's the Stupid Party. The purpose of the Republican party is to ratify the last leftist revolution. "Obamacare is the law of the land," sayeth Weepy Boner. Non-whites will increase in number until a ratifying pause is no longer needed. We're very close to that now. Soon, non-whites will have numbers such that they will no longer need white Democrats. The Republican faithful doesn't know what else to do because it can't know. The Republican party must die. These are nothing but crocodile tears.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#7. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
Good article and right on point.
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