DLH – no practical downside
Tom Tancredo, writing at Breitbart The full article lists many reasons behind his decision.
“In a panel discussion at the University of Colorado after the recent Republican debate, I was asked by a student why she should be a Republican. The question forced me to ask myself the same thing.
“I gave the young woman the standard talking points–that Republicans believe in smaller government, individual rights, fiscal responsibility, and free enterprise. But as I drove home, her question–and my inability to respond with any level of real conviction–got me thinking: Does the Republican Party leadership fight for these values and principles today?
“After much thought, I reluctantly concluded that the answer is “no.” The proudly socialist Democrats are full of passionate intensity, while the Republican leadership is full of pathetic excuses. After this week’s House GOP “budget deal,” which betrays nearly every promise made to grassroots conservatives since 2010, I have decided it is time to end my affiliation with the Republican Party.”
Tom Tancredo says it for me…better than I could say it myself. I am done with the Republican party. The cynical contemptuous budget treachery is the crowning action.
Now, I’m not changing my registration to “independent”… yet. I will remain, on paper, a voting Republican, until the primaries have concluded and a nominee for president has been chosen.
Then it will depend on who the GOP nominee is as to my ensuing action. I will declare now that if the successful candidate to carry the Republican banner into the 2016 presidential campaign is not , in order of current preference, Ted Cruz, or Ben Carson, or Donald Trump, or reluctantly, Marco Rubio, I will become that widely sought “independent voter”.
As an independent, I will not be casting a ballot for president. I will vote for certain, carefully selected Republican candidates for various offices, but not for the president, as noted, if not one of the above.
I will not be voting for the current GOP congressional incumbent in my district. He has served as an establishment toady, voting conservative only when permitted to do so by an establishment confident that it had the votes to pass its own big government, non-conservative program or to accede to the wishes and demands of this administration.
Nor will I vote for my incumbent GOP senator, for essentially the same reason. I supported with great reluctance my other incumbent GOP senator in 2014, based on the faint hope that he really meant his conservative campaign promises. He did not. And his colleague, the party, and, sadly, our nation will pay the price.
Am I being vindictive? Perhaps, but I will endure only so much perfidy, treachery, and betrayal by those who ask me to “trust them”. The damage they have done to this once great nation can never be repaired and we will all pay the price whether these people are returned to power or not.
Oh, and Mitch. Just a word for you. When you are no longer useful or necessary to advancing the US Chamber of Commerce agenda, Tom (Donohue) will dump you like last night’s stale greasy pizza crust.
RIP GOP indeed!
Don Holmes
(Note; a piece by Sundance writing at Conservative Treehouse describes in detail how mendacious this GOPe crowd is. Globalist Republican Senators (GOPe) Who Voted For Unlimited Spending Bill
