It’s hard to dump your steady date …
I like this…
“O fear, anxiety and hesitation. How can I leave my dearest? We’ve been together so long! And I’m wearing his pin! Yet, now my beloved is dating someone else! I must make a break … No, I can’t, I just can’t!”Come on, republican men and women – your steady date has betrayed you. Your (somewhat) more conservative Nevada republican caucus winner has just pledged his love for mcCAIN. If those two can kiss and make up ‘for the good of the party,’ what good is the party?
Cast off your misplaced loyalty. Your loyalty is intended for conservatism, and constitutional principles. I know you have them – I was once a republican. And I, too, believed that by being loyal ‘to the party of conservatism,’ I was helping to stem the tide of the ugly liberal wave.
I finally broke up with my steady date 12 years ago when I realized that the parties were twins in both intent and results. We are being washed over by a wave of ugly liberalism of immense proportion. Look at what our situation has become. Look at what we allow our government to do to us nationally (borderless nation, ungodly taxation, meaningless currency), in our state (cameras on every street corner, looming bankruptcy due to govt employee retirees, smothering forms-fees-and-inspections for everything, a Nevada REAL-ID), and to our persons (half our family income to taxes-fees-regulations, removing clothing articles and being searched to board an airplane to fly to anywhere – even to such a terrorist destination as CEDAR RAPIDS!). Do you see which parties cooperated to create all of that? Why be loyal to that?
Further, why be loyal to something/someone that isn’t loyal to you?
I know you also have that secret gut drive that … besides thinking you’re being conservative as a republican … you also are driven to make sure the liberals don’t win. Is it because the win is more precious to you than the conservatism? The result of that is that liberalism has already won. When you have a hillary, a barack and a mcCAIN left to divide it up, all you have left on the table is liberalism. *
I repeat what I’ve been told before by a number of republican friends: “But your party, your candidate can’t win!” My answer to that is, “What do you win if mcCAIN wins?”
Join me in the IAP – you and I will at least spend our precious votes by awarding them to a deserving candidate who goes to battle for what’s right … not to just win. Remember, the republican party came into being in the 1800’s when there was no other party providing what was considered the third-party point of view.
Become a ‘FORMER’ republican and lend your good intent and effort to a cause worthy of your heart. We welcome broken-hearted lovers who have been dumped by their beloved steady date.
*Actually it’s socialism vs. communism vs. fascism; but we can talk about that another time.
-Mark Andrews
February 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I don’t know what you’re arguing about. Countless Republicans are all roarin’ and ready to break with the GOP on the Presidential level and support a 3rd party candidate. Problem is the 3rd parties themselves.
We’re Republicans cause we like to be on a winning team. We like politics. We like the process. 3rd party advocates seem to do nothing but bash the process and the “dirty world of politics.”
Thus, they don’t hold experience and credibility up as a high barometer. Instead, 3rd parties like the Libertarian Party and Constitution Party tend to pick longtime party hacks who are “trusted on principle,” people like Harry Browne, Michael Badnarik, Howard Phillis, and that Adam Clayton guy, over real world Libertarians/Constitutionalists who have real world political experience, like Don Gorman (against Browne), Gary Nolan and others.
Look at the current race. You’ve got top Libertarians supporting Losertarian Badarik-style candidates like Steve Kubby and George Phillies, over someone like Wayne Root or Bob Barr. Apparently Barr and Root are not “pure enough.”
Give us a more mainstream candidate with more credibility on a 3rd party ticket, and we’ll gladly support him/her. Give us a party hack whose sole qualification is that he/she is “right on the issues,” and we’ll probably end up holding our noses and voting for McCain.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
“We’re Republicans cause we like to be on a winning team. We like politics. We like the process.”
Not because you like lower taxes, limited government, and personal liberty? Huh. Thanks for the info Dondy.
Now I know that it isnt about being “pragmatic”, its about being on the winning team.
As for the process,clearly most Republicans dont like it—which is why ther dissatisfied with McCain.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
A nit-picky point…it’s Barack, not Barrack.
February 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Here in Michigan I have had several calls from Republicans that have joined the US Taxpayers Party of Michigan to run for political office with us. Most of them sound certain they can bring dissented republican with them. Only time will tell.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Trent: “Not because you like lower taxes, limited government, and personal liberty? Huh. Thanks for the info Dondy.”
Considering that the Republicans in power work every day to increase government, continue tax and spend policies, and erode liberty, I’d say you’re right, Trent.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Actually it’s Barack HUSSEIN as in the muderous dictator who slaughtered millions under his near 30 year reign in Iraq.
Know what Barack means in Arabic? Lightening.
Obama’s Radical Muslim father from Kenya is quoted as saying that he named his son after Muhammed’s horse – “Lightening.”
February 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Yeah, that’s right Jeff, like Republican Court appointees who do “big government things” like legalizing sex toys.
Read the latest:
www.mainstreamlibertarian.com
Bush appointees and Conservative justices in the 5th Circuit just legalized sex toys as a “protected right.”
February 17th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Quoth Eric Dondero:
“Look at the current race. You’ve got top Libertarians supporting Losertarian Badarik-style candidates like Steve Kubby and George Phillies, over someone like Wayne Root or Bob Barr. Apparently Barr and Root are not ‘pure enough.’”
You’re mis-categorizing.
Barr and Kubby, as candidates with actual political experience and qualifications, belong in the same category. Barr obviously excels Kubby in terms of credentials … but he’s not running, at least yet. It’s kind of silly to bitch about people supporting a candidate “over” a non-candidate.
Root and Phillies have less in common—Phillies has some political experience, Root seems to have almost none. However, Phillies suffers a deficit in self-promotion ability, which is Root’s strength.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Dondero likes being on a winning team. That’s why so far this election cycle he’s backed Giuliani, then Romney, now WAR. Who else wants to be a Dondero “winner”?
February 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Dondero: “Yeah, that’s right Jeff, like Republican Court appointees who do “big government things” like legalizing sex toys.”
Have you had your head in the sand for the last 7 years? We’ve had nothing but big spending, more government in your private life, EXPONENTIAL spending increases and overall less liberty.
February 17th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
“Here in Michigan I have had several calls from Republicans that have joined the US Taxpayers Party of Michigan to run for political office with us. Most of them sound certain they can bring dissented republican with them. Only time will tell.”
Same here Ronald. Republicans are calling and emailing me by the day asking who are candidates are going to be, how they can help, etc.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:33 am
For anyone considering moving to a third party;
I was a GOP party member for 22 years. It was my parents party. I have always supported a balanced federal budget, a strong defensive military, free trade, low taxation, smaller less intrusive government & maximum personal freedoms. Unfortunately, the GOP has not supported those platforms.
Also, I have had a problem with the ‘Moral Majority’ types, the ‘Right Wing’ if you will of the GOP who’ve adopted the ‘Left Wing’ inspired NEO-CON manifesto that the GOP now readily employs.
So I left the GOP & I decided to join the WAR! Wayne Allyn Root, Libertarian for President. www.rootforamerica.com
WAR is a Fiscal Conservative, a Defense Conservative & he’s Socially Tolerant. He admits he’s not a contender yet, but he is planning on being in the presidential fight for many years. I think he’s a viable ‘Right Libertarian’ or ‘Libertarian Republican’ who just may get the job done by enlisting the ‘middle’ voters.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Trent now is the time for Constitution Party to grow, We had a meeting on Nine mile and Woodward at the V.F.W. there, about 35 persons where there with many new members of the party and some new candidates. We are having a another meeting next week end at Okemos Mi.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Frank, Wayne Allen Root = WAR. How approriate.
Everyone read this brilliant article from Glen Greenwald and tell me you can’t help thinking about Dondero.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/17/steyn/index.html
February 18th, 2008 at 11:57 am
The hits on the CPMN.ORG website have skyrocketed in recent weeks.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Thanks for the link Red, I enjoyed the following;
Glenn Greenwald? Yawn.
Wake me up when he’s interviewed some of the people trying to kill us and spent a few weeks with people maimed in terrorist attacks (I’d have spoken with the dead, but they were unavailable).
I agree with most of what Glenn has written concerning the ULTRA-CONS. Self defense against a known terrorist faction while utilizing low intensity conflict scenarios (that are sanctioned properly vs unilateralism) is one thing. Nation-building for freedom’s sake at the end of a gun, is another.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Quoth Eric Dondero:
“Instead, 3rd parties like the Libertarian Party and Constitution Party tend to pick longtime party hacks who are ‘trusted on principle,’ people like Harry Browne …”
Harry Browne joined the Libertarian Party in 1994, about the same time as he announced his presidential candidacy; his pitch was not that he was a “longtime party hack”—as a matter of fact, for the 22 years prior to his LP membership/presidential candidacy, he publicly preached against voting, let alone running for office—but that he was a well-known author and investment advisor.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Is that Mark Andrews the former US Senator from N. Dakota?