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Title: How Many Freepers Will Leave The GOP?
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Published: Feb 7, 2008
Author: Man50D
Post Date: 2008-02-07 14:32:52 by catcher
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Free Republic Home · Browse · Search News/Activism Topics · Post Article Skip to comments. How Many Freepers Will Leave The GOP? Man50D Posted on 02/07/2008 10:39:44 AM PST by Man50D Romney has now bowed out of the race leaving only McCain, Paul and Huckabee. It's impossible the latter two have any chance of garnering enough delegates to win the nomination. That leaves McCain. He has slapped Conservatives in the face more than enough times by siding with Socialist Democrats on issues. It's clear McCain will take the GOP farther to the left. The question now becomes how many of you have had enough of the GOP abandoning Conservatism and will in turn leave the GOP? 1 posted on 02/07/2008 10:39:45 AM PST by Man50D [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ] To: Man50D I am out.... 2 posted on 02/07/2008 10:40:20 AM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I am leaving the day McQueeg clinches the nomination, and all hope for a conservative nominee is gone. 3 posted on 02/07/2008 10:40:40 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Don't trust anyone who can’t take a joke. [Congressman BillyBob]) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D The GOP left me with me years ago. 4 posted on 02/07/2008 10:41:06 AM PST by bmwcyle (the Beltway crowd is like a bunch of women who have started menstruating together) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D The GOP has left me. 5 posted on 02/07/2008 10:41:16 AM PST by Ikemeister [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I was never a Republican, so for me the question is meaningless. 6 posted on 02/07/2008 10:41:26 AM PST by Jim Noble (Look out kid they keep it all hid) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I’m already gone. Last one out turn off the lights and lock the door. 7 posted on 02/07/2008 10:41:41 AM PST by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Nothing would make McCain happier than for conservatives to leave the GOP. No. I plan on sticking around and making life miserable for the fifth column - the way they did when we were in charge. 8 posted on 02/07/2008 10:41:47 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Not unless something better comes along. This is one battle in a long war. 9 posted on 02/07/2008 10:41:49 AM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D The GOP left me! I will NEVER support the GOP again! Good riddance! 10 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:01 AM PST by paratrooper82 (82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I am also out. 11 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:16 AM PST by indylindy (Don't even ask me to vote for McCain, Rudy, or Huckster.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D What party will everyone join if we leave the GOP? Constitution Party? Form a new party? 12 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:19 AM PST by Avery Morrow [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I resigned from the GOP after the Dole debacle in 1996. Still took years to get off the mailing lists. 13 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:50 AM PST by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Sorry I can’t sell out the military just to prove a political point. I will take my chances with McCain over Hillary. I support Huckabee right now. If Romney endorses Huckabee and campaigns with him, they can energize a conservative resurgence. 14 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:52 AM PST by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D The day McCain gets the nomination, I am gone. I will vote Third Party CONSERVATIVE. As long as he is on the ballot, I will support Ron Paul! 15 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:59 AM PST by jan in Colorado ("It's easier to believe a lie one hears 1,000 times than to believe a fact that one has never heard) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Can’t speak for anybody except me and my hubby. We’ve been hanging in until the PA primary. No reason now. One of us will hit the Court House tomorrow and bring the other home a card to change parties. Still arguing over who does the legwork. 16 posted on 02/07/2008 10:43:04 AM PST by penowa [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D See tagline 17 posted on 02/07/2008 10:43:13 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I’m out. 18 posted on 02/07/2008 10:43:21 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (McCain/Soros 2008) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D It left me. 19 posted on 02/07/2008 10:43:25 AM PST by MrChips (MrChips) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I will suspend my membership/affiliation to the Republican party. I wonder if the Shuckster will bow out now. That will be telling of the reasons why he has stayed in up to now. Even though we know, the Shuckster supporters fail to see why he has stayed in up to this point. 20 posted on 02/07/2008 10:43:36 AM PST by Bruinator ("It's the Media Stupid.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Had the nominee been Rudy, I'd be headed for the door. I may have been convinced to stick it out with Romney. I'll hold my nose for McCain and hang in, assuming he doesn't pick a horrible running mate. 22 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:09 AM PST by Antoninus (I survived Roe v. Wade. 40,000,000 of my generation did not.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I’ll vote McCain over Hitlery or Obamination. It’s a lesser of two evils thing. Besides, McCain has said that he’s only in for one term. If he grabs Fred as his running mate I’ll be happy enough. (If he grabs the Huckster as a running mate I might consider bolting) 23 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:09 AM PST by Filo (Darwin was right!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Already posted this on the PA board last week. I am a Republican through April 22, so I can vote against McCain in the PA primary. On April 23, I will head to the local courthouse and change my affiliation to independent. This November, I will be writing in John Galt for president and voting for and supporting any conservative candidates down ballot. The Manchurian Candidate never gets my vote. Never. 24 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:14 AM PST by Ogie Oglethorpe (2nd Amendment - the reboot button on the U.S. Constitution) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D 37 25 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:26 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (If you can't run with the big dogs...) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Let’s retake the GOP! Starting with supporting conservatives for Congressmen and Senators! Resignation and surrender will ONLY ensure an eternal Democrat grip on power! 26 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:32 AM PST by SolidWood (All conservative effort into retaking Congress!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Was never in. Independent here. 27 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:40 AM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Avery Morrow Constitution Party, or a new CONSERVATIVE Party! 28 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:45 AM PST by jan in Colorado ("It's easier to believe a lie one hears 1,000 times than to believe a fact that one has never heard) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ] To: Always Right It is a long war, and this is a battle, you are right. Suppose McCain loses out to Hillary or Obama this year. Then conservatives will want to gear up and plan for the 2010 mid terms and 2012 presidential election. And if McCain wins, he’s getting old, he may not run for re-election in 2012. The Clintons were criticized for running the permanent campaign, but maybe it’s a good idea. There will be events and candidates and issues to consider beyond whatever happens in this years election cycle. 29 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:53 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Not much point in leaving until there’s somewhere useful to go. But I haven’t given a dime to the RNC for many years, and I will not vote for McCain no matter how many lying promises he makes. He is a born betrayer. 30 posted on 02/07/2008 10:44:58 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I registered Independent back in ‘99 when I turned 18, and only switched last year for the sole reason of wanting to vote for Hunter in the primary. Now, though, since Louisiana is becoming a closed primary state for other state-wide elections, I currently have no choice but to remain Republican so I can participate in choosing the candidates from the git-go. 31 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:02 AM PST by conservativecajun (Hunter '08 - vote for the most qualified for the position) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I vote for Huckabee is now an almost pure vote for a contested convention. Huck is unlikely, even if almost sweeps the next 20 some odd states, to collect the delegates needed to win. That said, he can collect enough delegates to block McCain . . . 32 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:03 AM PST by Greg F (A vote for Huckabee is now a pure vote for a contested convention. Think about it.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Already left. 33 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:14 AM PST by rintense (You don't advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. Piss off McCain and Huck!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D The Republican Party without the Conservatism is no longer the Conservative Parry. 34 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:18 AM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I won’t re register but I will either vote 3rd party or leave it blank for President in the general elecion. 35 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:31 AM PST by dalereed (both) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D i am on the way out aswell..... Just having a mental fart. But there just might be enough folks that hate McCain and Hilary that a third party candidate will be able to consolidate the anybody but MCAIN/Hilary vote... time will tell 36 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:33 AM PST by Vlaxo [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D The GOP has left me. 37 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:35 AM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I left when Trent Lott got all warm and fuzzy and gave us “power sharing.” 38 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:45 AM PST by gundog (John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Reagan79 What makes you think the Huckster is a conservative? Huckabee is as nutty as McCain. 39 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:48 AM PST by DFG [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ] To: All Where will you all go? 40 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:54 AM PST by mommya [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I went to vote for Romney in the primary and couldn’t because I forgot I had registered as an unaffiliated many years ago. Now I’m gonna keep it that way. I’ll never vote for Obama, Clinton or McStain. 41 posted on 02/07/2008 10:45:59 AM PST by McGruff (Warner Wolfe: If you had conservatism in 2008. YOU LOST!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I’m not a quitter or a whiner. I’m going to lick my wounds, suck it up and get on with life. This too shall pass. 42 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:13 AM PST by Constitution Day (Yuckabee '08. I'd prefer another letter, but it would get me suspended.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Reagan79 What makes you think the Huckster is a conservative? Huckabee is as nutty as McCain. 43 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:25 AM PST by DFG [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Wrong question. It’s how many Freeper votes will leave the GOP now that the GOP has left them. 44 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:25 AM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I'm seriously considering it. I've got to THINK about THIS. I STILL WON'T SUPPORT McCAIN!!! Grab your checkbooks, and keep them closed. NOT ONE PENNY!!!, will be our battle call. Conservatives care about the United States so much ... that they're willing to DEFEAT McCain to save the nation!!! McCain needs to wake up and smell the "VILE"!!! "Bipartisanship" Is A Dirty Word; and RUSH: "We want to defeat them" THIS IS WAR!!! The only LEADERSHIP we have is RUSH!!! 45 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:26 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D If McCain chooses a super-conservative VP, I will hold my nose, vote for him, and pray God to sort it out. If, as I suspect, he chooses a VP matching his own cretinous outlook, I write in Fred Thompson and then vote my local ticket straight conservative. What else can I do? 46 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:42 AM PST by Eepsy (The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I’ve been supporting Republican candidates for years, but I’ve never been a registered Republican at any time. So I guess your question isn’t really relevant to me. 47 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:42 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D I’m out. 48 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:51 AM PST by Politicalmom (Don't blame me. I voted for FRED!! I'm a refugee from the GOP.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D Who cares? If party membership meant anything, then the Democrats would win every election. It makes no difference, election are won on votes, and McCain is going to have win without mine. 49 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:56 AM PST by Biblebelter (I will NEVER EVER vote for McCain or any other current Senator.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] To: Man50D There is no Republican Party anymore. It has been killed by independents, Democrats, and Christian-nationalists in this election. The sooner we bury it and form a new party, the better. The way I look at it, there is no Republican on the ballot this fall. I will vote for one. 50 posted on 02/07/2008 10:46:59 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers (Waiting for 2012 to vote for an actual Republican) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. Free Republic Home · Browse · Search News/Activism Topics · Post Article FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794 http://FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2003 Robinson-DeFehr Consulting, LLC.
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#1. To: catcher (#0)
That pretty well establishes the level of "thought" on FRaud Republic.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
Herr Robinson will have to purge these heretics, given his penchant to vote for the "lesser of two evils."
Alex Jones just ended his show today by "thanking the FReepers for helping destroy the country." LOVE IT!!!!!!
I've never experienced much "thought" at FR; it was mostly emotional tripe, spit in your face by emotional misfits.
LOVE IT!!!!!! PERFECT!
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! 15 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:59 AM PST by jan in Colorado Did jan in Colorado get the boot yet?
An alternate question is: How many Freepers will leave Freeperland when Rimjob blows McCain and annoints him heir-apparent to the "Reagan Legacy"??
"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." - Otto von Bismarck
15 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:59 AM PST by jan in Colorado oops, how'd that Paulite slip in there? ;)
The only solution to this mess is to dig a hole big enough to nudge them all in and cover quickly
15 posted on 02/07/2008 10:42:59 AM PST by jan in Colorado Ooops! You have to get the terminology right - on Freepistan it is Paulshevik. After all you know how those Trotskyites are towards anyone not drinking their Kool-Aid.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
I haven't spent a lot of time in the un-free republic in the past couple of years, but when I have looked in on them, there were several intelligent and vocal Ron Paul supporters.
If I've learned anything about liberty, it's that our liberty has been stolen and deserves a fight to get it back! It is also vital for each of us to fight just as hard for the lost liberties of other citizens as for the lost liberties that you or I may cherish.(me) "I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have." The first time I was banned from the un-free republic, it was because I suggested that Shrub may be less than sincere. You know - I was "disrupting" their Bush worshiping service.
If I've learned anything about liberty, it's that our liberty has been stolen and deserves a fight to get it back! It is also vital for each of us to fight just as hard for the lost liberties of other citizens as for the lost liberties that you or I may cherish.(me) "I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have." :)
The only solution to this mess is to dig a hole big enough to nudge them all in and cover quickly
Well, not as of today. Who knows, Mr. Jim Robinson may run out of rino's and be left supporting the only conservative candidate in the field - Dr. Ron Paul.
If I've learned anything about liberty, it's that our liberty has been stolen and deserves a fight to get it back! It is also vital for each of us to fight just as hard for the lost liberties of other citizens as for the lost liberties that you or I may cherish.(me) "I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have." LOL. They're a legend in their own minds.
Which RINO has the biggest trunk? Huck, or McLame? The Republican party seems less like the GOP and more like the junior half od the Republicrat party all the time. I see that Donald Luskin is stepping down as an economic advisor to Ron Paul and signing on to the John McCain campaign. That is bad, and people need to not get disheartened and drop support for Ron Paul. The dust from this has yet to settle yet. Seems to me the thing for people to do is to rally around Ron Paul. There is allot of conservative dissent concerning McCain. And Huck's only attractive issue to some - eliminate the IRS - he stole from Dr. Paul. Rom Paul is clearly the best choice.
And a walk through the oceans of their souls would scarcely get your feet wet.
The majority of the GOP, including its most intense members, worships the 100-year war. "Peace is hell" from their perspective. They will never experience another moment of peace for the rest of their entire miserable lives and they intend, as best they can, to make the lives of all Americans a "living hell" as well.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
None of the FREEPERS will leave the GOP or FR. They are just waiting for JimRob to tell them what to think...and bring them a tall glass of the kool- aide.
So far as I am concerned, Dr. Paul is the ONLY choice.
America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.
What a bunch of tail chasers they are. They are already dizzy when Jimmie Boy tells them what to think. Telling them what to do is the easy part. That hard part is trying to tell them something to think and believe that makes sense with this current election year going like it is.
The only LEADERSHIP we have is RUSH!!!
#2. To: catcher (#0)
#3. To: All. AJ knocks FReepers but good, (#2)
#4. To: Original_Intent (#1)
That pretty well establishes the level of "thought" on FRaud Republic.
#5. To: Jethro Tull, *Ron Paul for President 2008* (#3)
Alex Jones just ended his show today by "thanking the FReepers for helping destroy the country."
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#6. To: catcher (#0)
As long as he is on the ballot, I will support Ron Paul!
#7. To: catcher (#0)
#8. To: catcher (#0)
As long as he is on the ballot, I will support Ron Paul!
#9. To: christine (#8)
As long as he is on the ballot, I will support Ron Paul!
#10. To: christine (#8)
oops, how'd that Paulite slip in there? ;)
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
Herr Robinson will have to purge these heretics, given his penchant to vote for the "lesser of two evils."
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)
#12. To: Original_Intent (#9)
#13. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
Did jan in Colorado get the boot yet?
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)
#14. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
"thanking the FReepers for helping destroy the country."
I've already said too much.
#15. To: christine (#12)
#16. To: MUDDOG (#14)
(Edited)
"They're a legend in their own minds."
#17. To: Ferret Mike (#15)
#18. To: Sam Houston (#17)
#19. To: Ferret Mike (#15)
Rom Paul is clearly the best choice.
#20. To: Sodie Pop (#18)
"None of the FREEPERS will leave the GOP or FR. They are just waiting for JimRob to tell them what to think...and bring them a tall glass of the kool- aide."
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