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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: JakeStyle on March 18, 2015, 11:56:52 PM
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http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/18/ive-made-my-decision-im-out-glenn-beck-leaves-the-republican-party/
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck announced on his radio show Wednesday morning that he has officially left the Republican Party.
Beck, whose program appears on TheBlaze.com, said the GOP lost him when they said “they were going to stand against Obamacare and illegal immigration.†Beck added that the party “set us up†and “enough is enough.â€
“I’ve made my decision — I’m out. I’m out of the Republican Party. I am not a Republican. I will not give a dime to the Republican Party. I’m out,†Beck said on his program. “I highly recommend — run from the Republican Party. They are not good. And you see it now.â€
He's right of course, but what is the other option?
I wonder how much influence he still has, since he has done a really good job of marginalizing himself by acting like a hysterical fool in the past. Mark Levin, who I have much more respect for, has said that he is about to pull the plug on the party as well.
I'm worried that going the 3rd party route is just unrealistic, but maybe the threat of losing the Conservative base will pull the Republican leadership back to the right.
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Being a registered conservative is an option.
I don't know if the libertarians have formed an official party.
Same goes for the tea party.
But all of them would most likely caucus with the GOP anyway.
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I'm worried that going the 3rd party route is just unrealistic, but maybe the threat of losing the Conservative base will pull the Republican leadership back to the right.
It will do no such thing. What it will do is guarantee a revival of a democrat party that is on the ropes and ready to be knocked out. I personally don't give a damn what Glenn Beck says; he went to bomb thrower status a long time ago in my eyes. What I do care about is getting rid of the RINO element in the current GOP. Too many inroads have been made in the last 4 years, too many victories for conservatives, sending RINOs out to pasture in the primaries, etc to just give up now.
Anyone who thinks along these lines (giving up on the Republican Party) says that conservatism is no bigger, and no more powerful, than the politics of two men (Boehner and McConnell) which is close to what the democrats have been saying for years to demoralize us and fracture whatever unity we have.
There is no one who would love to see the GOP split into warring groups than the liberal democrats. So maybe, instead, we should study how the lunatic left infiltrated the democrat party and changed it. The blueprint is there, we just have to read it.
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I don't know if the libertarians have formed an official party.
Yes, since 1971. lp.org
The Kansas Libertarian Party was also founded in 1971. lpks.org
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It will do no such thing. What it will do is guarantee a revival of a democrat party that is on the ropes and ready to be knocked out. I personally don't give a damn what Glenn Beck says; he went to bomb thrower status a long time ago in my eyes. What I do care about is getting rid of the RINO element in the current GOP. Too many inroads have been made in the last 4 years, too many victories for conservatives, sending RINOs out to pasture in the primaries, etc to just give up now.
Anyone who thinks along these lines (giving up on the Republican Party) says that conservatism is no bigger, and no more powerful, than the politics of two men (Boehner and McConnell) which is close to what the democrats have been saying for years to demoralize us and fracture whatever unity we have.
There is no one who would love to see the GOP split into warring groups than the liberal democrats. So maybe, instead, we should study how the lunatic left infiltrated the democrat party and changed it. The blueprint is there, we just have to read it.
The fight between the two wings of your party is 100 years old. Teddy Roosevelt the progressive on one side; and Taft, then Coolidge on the other, conservative and non-interventionist.
As long as your Establishment Republicans know that you'll vote for their nominee no matter how poorly they treat you, they'll control your party- and you.
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The fight between the two wings of your party is 100 years old. Teddy Roosevelt the progressive on one side; and Taft, then Coolidge on the other, conservative and non-interventionist.
As long as your Establishment Republicans know that you'll vote for their nominee no matter how poorly they treat you, they'll control your party- and you.
Not a republican, BD.
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Not a republican, BD.
I apologize for the assumption. Mea culpa.