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The Current Republican Party No Longer Represents Me

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-30 07:44|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 The Current Republican Party No Longer Represents Me

Did they ever ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-30 07:49|| 2023-10-30 07:49|| Front Page Top

#2 We are subversive. I like being subversive.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-10-30 08:40|| 2023-10-30 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Anytime an organization comes along and wants you to join, the main questions are 'what do you get vs what do I get' and 'can I leave?'

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-30 09:06|| 2023-10-30 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 1994 / Gingrich was the last time the Pubs resembled something like a genuine opposition party. The Beltway might as well be called the Borg home world. After a 'Pub's first term, most are assimilated into the collective.

Posted by Raj 2023-10-30 10:43|| 2023-10-30 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, but.

The Republicans represent me better than the Democrats do — the Democrats have reached the point where they don’t want me to be allowed to exist.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-10-30 13:45|| 2023-10-30 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I dig that, tw. I subscribe to Howie Carr's rule for voting - who's gonna screw me the least? 99% of the time, it's a Republican.

Posted by Raj 2023-10-30 14:29|| 2023-10-30 14:29|| Front Page Top

#7 My first vote was for Gerald Ford and since then I have only voted (R) ...though there was that vote for the Libertarian Party because Oklahoma had a "No Third Party" poison pill clause cooked up by the the Democrats and Republicans.

Anyway, as a young'un I kept seeing the Rainbow Coalition™ on the Evening News during the Great Democrat Purge after the McGovern debacle. Now politics is something of a Zero Sum Game™ and if the Coalition consists of Academic Liberals, Coastal Elites, Welfare Rent Seekers and "No Whites Need Apply" groups then where is there any cash for a white male Okie? So at least, as Raj put it, I am reasonably sure that the (R)'s may not help me but at least they are not out to pick my pocket 24/7/365.

Posted by magpie 2023-10-30 18:16|| 2023-10-30 18:16|| Front Page Top

#8 They are of course waiting for all us whites to boycott an election so they can disenfranchise us all forever. It's sort of a prisoners dilemma.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-30 19:03|| 2023-10-30 19:03|| Front Page Top

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