Yep, had enough of the two toned blue-red Republicans. Not voting for one of them; not giving them a red cent.

Thanks for exposing RINO Cornyn. That department store cowboy is my Senator. He has sponsored bills giving amnesty for illegal aliens. He wants to give unlimited H-1B visas to foreign high-tech workers even in the current 17% real unemployment. Now he’s waffling on repealing health care. What a surprise. Fool. Fool!

We are steadily winning independent voters, by our opposition to Obamacare. This buffoonish hick, Cornyn, threatens our increasing advantage by signaling weakness. What the – ? Moron. Moron!

I’m sick of the Republican Party leadership. Sick. Sick. Sick. The first business of the Tea Party should be to to topple the RNC. And I mean expulsion, expulsion!, not a temporary desk job.

Arrrghjghghghhgl;shgjlsgjh;lskgj;lasdkgja;lsdkgjs;lgkjsa!

I’m angry. And I haven’t even started thinking about Lindsey Graham-cracker.

This is the same pattern we’ve seen over and over. Talk conservative to the base, then vote moderate.

Maybe I’ve been wrong. Maybe we should turn the Tea Party into a third party. The Republican leadership has been doing this two-faced two-step for thirty years. I’m not up for it even one more time. Not again. Never again.

I’m taking a long run to regain my calm. This is b.s.

Thanks for exposing RINO Cornyn. That department store cowboy is my Senator. He has sponsored bills giving amnesty for illegal aliens. He wants to give unlimited H-1B visas to foreign high-tech workers even in the current 17% real unemployment. Now he’s waffling on repealing health care. What a surprise. Fool. Fool!

We are steadily winning independent voters, by our opposition to Obamacare. This buffoonish hick, Cornyn, threatens our increasing advantage by signaling weakness. What the – ? Moron. Moron!

I’m sick of the Republican Party leadership. Sick. Sick. Sick. The first business of the Tea Party should be to to topple the RNC. And I mean expulsion, expulsion!, not a temporary desk job.

Arrrghjghghghhgl;shgjlsgjh;lskgj;lasdkgja;lsdkgjs;lgkjsa!

I’m angry. And I haven’t even started thinking about Lindsey Graham-cracker.

This is the same pattern we’ve seen over and over. Talk conservative to the base, then vote moderate.

Maybe I’ve been wrong. Maybe we should turn the Tea Party into a third party. The Republican leadership has been doing this two-faced two-step for thirty years. I’m not up for it even one more time. Not again. Never again.

I’m taking a long run to regain my calm. This is b.s.

It’s just absolutely infuriating. Here we are coming off the health care debate, WHICH WE WON if the polls are any indication. No bounce for Barry, GOP ahead in generic polls and now we have these f***ing idiots just pissing it away with their incompetence. Fricking IMMIGRATION?! Are you kidding me?! STEELE.CORNYN.SESSIONS.MUST.GO.

I mostly agree with what you say here, Stacy, and I will leave it at that. Good job.

I mostly agree with what you say here, Stacy, and I will leave it at that. Good job.

Well they are still picking democrats in disguise. Don’t fall for the Tim Pawlenty bid either. He isn’t a fan of T-Party patriots.If he suddenly enthusiastic it is because he wants to run for Prez. No Mitt Romney who is for soemthing till T-Party says no. No Ron Paul who is 75yrs old. Pick your own candidate, donate to them then work your butt off. Worry & work for 2010 then we can focus on 2012. We can’t get rid of them all but we can try and minimize some damage. God Bless America, God Bless Patriots.

typo: Anencephalic

My kids will end up paying for your refusal to tell the difference between ‘bad’ and ‘worse.’ Hint: this situation that we’re in right now is ‘worse.’

…Sorry. It’s just that we get hella people over at RS who want to tell us about how horrible the national committees are, how they’ll never support anybody but an individual candidate ever again – only they *don’t* support individual candidates, they *don’t* try to fix the parties on the local level, they *don’t* accept anything but a mythical 120% conservative opinion on anything, and in fact *don’t* do anything except complain on RS comment boards about ‘RiNOs,’ which is the point where I want to start practicing my Sith powers through the computer screen.

So I’m a bit prickly on the topic.

…Sorry. It’s just that we get hella people over at RS who want to tell us about how horrible the national committees are, how they’ll never support anybody but an individual candidate ever again – only they *don’t* support individual candidates, they *don’t* try to fix the parties on the local level, they *don’t* accept anything but a mythical 120% conservative opinion on anything, and in fact *don’t* do anything except complain on RS comment boards about ‘RiNOs,’ which is the point where I want to start practicing my Sith powers through the computer screen.

So I’m a bit prickly on the topic.

Eunuch Anacephalic, heh, no balls, no brain.
I salute your loquacious verity.

My kids will end up paying for your refusal to tell the difference between ‘bad’ and ‘worse.’

Moe: Giving money to incompetents is not going to change “bad” to “better.” The reason that we are where we are now is because of this kind of cluelessness at GOP HQ. After 2002-04, the Republican Party had a solid majority, which has been squandered by the blunders of “leadership.”

This is about incentives. Unless and until the national committees show meaningful recognition of their fundamental errors — not spin, not the firing of lower-level staffers, but serious consequences for senior personnel — anyone who gives them money is merely rewarding incompetence, and there is no incentive for the clueless clowns at GOP HQ to get their acts together.

Stacy: I would disagree. We’re in the state that we’re in right now – tripled deficits, free-fall on foreign policy, and 1/6th of the economy being nationalized – because we don’t have the votes to stop any of it.

Correction: the *GOP* doesn’t have the votes to stop any of it. Because since 200*7* a segment of conservatives have abandoned support of the Republican party committees while, by and large, not increasing their support of anything else. As I said in my follow-up vent.

Moe is right and so are you Stacy. We live with the GOP because that is the only game in town for us right now. We give our money and support directly to those conservative candidates we can legitimately support. We fight wobbly GOP politicans when we reasonably believe we can replace them with a more conservative candidate who can win general elections (such as Rubio over Crist; anyone over Lindsay Graham in SC; I am less sanquine over JD Hayworth vs. McCain because Hayworth lost his congressional seat which makes me doubt his state wide legs in the general election–but I trust Arizona republicans to do what is best). The RNC gets nothing but scorn.

The grass roots tea parties need to start taking over the GOP. Just like Reagan did. It will take some time, but it is doable.

Great. Now tell me about what the heck people are doing about getting rid of John Adler in NJ-03. Or Kathy Dahlkemper in PA-03. Or Charlie Wilson in OH-06? Wins in all three of these races would represent a net improvement for conservatives, in that their GOP replacements would not be voting in a Democrat as Speaker of the House. Worth it right there: but I’m not expecting anybody besides the NRCC to actually do the non-sexy leg work of getting what would be gettable districts.

I don’t mean to yell at you: you’re an activist and you show up. But, incompetent or no, the national committees can at least be counted to show up all the time. If the VRWC wants to defeat the Democrats, it either has to start ensuring that they themselves show up, or they can start funding and taking over the groups that do.

If the VRWC wants to defeat the Democrats …

Defeating Democrats doesn’t necessarily change anything. We have to beat Statists, progressives, or whatever you want to call them. In both parties.

Hey, prior to Obama, GWB and a Republican Congress increased the size and scope of government greater than LBJ! If being conservative doesn’t mean standing for limited government, it means nothing.

If the Republicans were getting Tea Partied the way the Social Democrats are things might have been different. For far too long many have slept well at night thinking that we’d elected statesmen to look out for our interests. We know better now and must never go back to sleep. As the house can be entirely flipped every two years correcting it is relatively simple. It could take decades to fix the Senate.

All this talk about how destructive a “third party” might be–I’m thinking it would be good for the GOP to take immediate steps to try and secure a position as one of the three.

Its short-term thinking that’s gotten us where we are today. The “we need to be responsible and settle for half-a-loaf” “we need a big tent”, “we need to nominate someone who can win” is exactly the problem.

In the long run, electing the lessor of two evils, just gets you evil. Electing a bunch of McCains just gets you Ted Kennedy socialism – only more slowly.

You need to think long-term. Nominate and vote only for conservatives and we will have a majority soon – and it will be a conservative one – not a useless RINO majority like 2005.