3 Reasons Why I’m Joining the Republican Party Today
I’ve resisted this for awhile. The past three years I’ve readily identified as an ideologically conservative, pro-Tea Party, ex-leftist. But I resisted joining the Republican Party, preferring to focus on the war of ideas, the battles of Left and Right, Marxist vs Classical Liberal, rather than Democrat vs Republican.
When Mitt Romney secured the nomination I naively thought, “well, he’s got that corporate competence. Surely they’ll be as smart at growing a campaign as they would building a business, right? Even if they can’t articulate Americanism at least they’ll maximize on the basics of Get Out the Vote and fundraising and all the boring, professional stuff, right?”
Wrong, as Bethany Mandel reports at Commentary. Turns out we’re not looking just at the broader cultural problem of a 5% raise in nonreligious voters, but also a Republican Party unable to compete in the technological arms race or even run a competent Get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation:
The story of how monumental a failure Project ORCA was on Election Day was first reported by a volunteer, John Ekdahl, on the Ace of Spades blog. After tweeting the article, I was contacted by several other volunteers who were eager to explain in greater detail just how many things went wrong with Project Orca on Tuesday.
I spoke with one volunteer in a rural Virginia county who had a similar experience to the blogger on Ace’s site. Shoshanna McCrimmon signed up to volunteer on Romney’s website several months ago. She was contacted by Dan Centinello of the Romney campaign and underwent online and phone training that lasted for several hours in order to volunteer locally on Election Day. Because of secrecy concerns, the application itself was inaccessible until the morning of the election. From the outset there were failures of organization.
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Was ORCA’s failure the reason why Romney lost Virginia by almost 116,000 votes, Ohio by 103,000, Iowa by 88,000 or why Florida is still, days later, too close to call? It’s impossible to know what a Romney campaign with working GOTV technology would have been able to accomplish. Ekdahl explained that with the failure of Project ORCA’s organization and its later meltdown on Election Day “30,000+ of the most active and fired-up volunteers were wandering around confused and frustrated when they could have been doing anything else to help. Like driving people to the polls, phone-banking, walking door-to-door, etc.” The possibility that all of the efforts of Romney’s campaign, all of the enthusiasm, went unharnessed and dormant on Election Day when they could’ve at least led to a closer election result, if not a victory, is becoming beyond frustrating for thousands of his staffers, for the millions of Americans who gave their time and money to elect Mitt Romney president as they come to learn just what a disaster ORCA seems to have been.
This is my tipping point. Will it be for anyone else?
1. Today I’m joining the Republican Party because I recognize that it’s not enough to take back the culture. We could spend four years pushing the culture and expanding the base and then it would be all for naught because incompetent GOP establishment hacks cannot run a campaign.
2. Today I’m joining the Republican Party because over the coming years as ideological factions compete for influence the antisemitic elements within the party — Ron Paul’s Paleo-Libertarian, Old Right, Anarcho Capitalist, Conspiracy Theory cult coalition — threaten to gain greater power.
3. Today I’m joining the Republican Party because as I’ve returned to Bible-based religion and a faith in God during the past year I’ve come to understand the story of the ancient Israelites rebelling against slavery and idolatry as the basis for Western Civilization, our ancestors’ flight from Europe, and the founding of this nation. The Republican Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party. It still is today.
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Looks like the GOP jumped the shark today…
See, I’m leaning toward leaving the GOP for similar reasons. I appreciate that it’s Lincoln’s anti-slavery party, in fact that’s probably why I have stayed Republican for 18 years. But at this point, I’m headed toward a more libertarian (Not Ron-ulan, though) view.
I’m convinced the focus needs to be on fiscal issues first. Our culture isn’t in a place politically to even be open to social change. If we push social change at this point, there will be immediate, knee-jerk reaction. To get social change without civil war, as in England during the slavery discussion, it requires revival. You can’t do that through political means.
What you, and everyone else need to understand, is that due to our non-parliamentary system, third parties always fail. The major parties suck because they’re not parties. They’re permanent coalitions. If you’re a libertarian, you can try to pursue that view in the donkey party (good freeking luck with that), or you can try to work in the GOP. Those are the only two choices.
If we had a parliamentary system, it would be different. The LP would be a viable minority party which could be part of a ruling coalition. But we don’t. The GOP is the coalition. Get used to it, and if you think that the party needs to be more libertarian, work to make it so. Because there isn’t an alternative. Third parties are for parliamentary systems.
Thank you for what you have done. I am happy. We have lost an election but we have begun the fight. Good Shabbos
Mitt Romney lost because of anti-Mormon bigotry. This is the number one reason why he received less votes than John McCain. By all rights, Romney should have easily surpassed the 62,040,810 totals of Bush43 in 2004.
see, that’s why I had questions about volunteering in the first place. Incompetent volunteer places are heinous.
And, hey. The torpedoed how many candidates on the rape issue? Okay- well, who rapes? Men and boys raised by single mothers are, what 90% of the rapists in prison? It’s north of 70%. So- their single mothers uber alles policy is causing problems for women. Second, child seduction: that’s a problem in inner-city single parent families, at least according to City Journal. So, single mothers with new boyfriends- the boyfriend preys on the innocent young woman. That’s a liberal policy- praising single women for going “cougar” rather than being devoted mothers who sublimate their energy into their children.
So, why are we having to pontificate about their problem?
For that matter, Kinsey was their guy, not ours. He’s the one who did the work to de-criminalize rape. It was a capital offense through the early 70′s. So, a convicted rapist wasn’t going to get out of prison- he was going to fry. That certainly made it a higher risk crime.
So, today you’ve got violent stranger rape, child seduction and he-said/she said. And he said/she said is mostly the province of drunken girls hooking up- again- their corner of the culture, not ours. Guys are getting very defensive about this- per Dr Helen. But- this is mixing three separate pathologies.
Is there any way to make them answer? I’m tired of the hard-case gotcha moments. I want them to answer for building a culture that raises feral monsters, and then they behave as if all men are feral. Most men are decent. Conservative men are the most decent. Liberals built a debased culture of monsters. They make us live in their world. I want them called to account. Our guys have been called to account for struggling to find some decency in the barbaric wasteland that liberals have made of the United States of America.
“Is there any way to make them answer? I’m tired of the hard-case gotcha moments. I want them to answer for building a culture that raises feral monsters, and then they behave as if all men are feral. Most men are decent. Conservative men are the most decent. Liberals built a debased culture of monsters. They make us live in their world. I want them called to account. Our guys have been called to account for struggling to find some decency in the barbaric wasteland that liberals have made of the United States of America.”
Not in all of it. In fact, not in MOST of it.
Look at the voting results map again, by county:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/erwins_photos/2012-usa-election-map-by-county-nyt.png
Mostly Red, ain’t it?
Now you ask, how they can be made to pay?
Easy. They pay through the lives that they lead, don’t you understand?
They worship Moloch.
Moloch demands that they sacrifice their children to him. This they do, and then in their grief and their shame, they worship Moloch some more, and he demands again that they sacrifice children, only not having any of their own left, they look to the children of others.
Have done with them, do not enter into commerce with them, lend not an ear to their piteous cries. They are doomed, and they will happily drag you down and throw you on the pyre they have built to gain another minute’s delay from the fire themselves.
Let them starve and freeze in the Hells of their own making.
And if you live in their places, come out from among them, if you look around, you will find that you don’t have to travel very far.
Where more people work with the fruits of the Earth than with the Art of Lies, where Houses of Worship of the Lord outnumber liquor stores and porn shops you will find the shelter that you seek.
If Romney had hired me, I would have been glad to build their computerized system as a shareware effort: No upfront fees, but if they like what I built for them, they can send me a donation later.
Glad to have you on board. Here is my revelation, and I don’t at all claim to be smart enough to have come up with it on my own.
We’ve been worshipping the Constitution.
We need to worship God, Judeo-Christian God.
The Constitution was merely supposed to allow for an orderly society so that we could worship God. It is a brilliant, divinely inspired document. But it is the means to an end. It is not the point. God is the point.
God was also the point when the Whigs dissolved after they would not oppose slavery, and the Republicans were formed as the Anti-slavery party. The Constitution did not demand that this occur. The Holy Spirit did.
360,000 men from the Republican north died to free African slaves imprisoned in the Democratic south. It went very badly, for a very long time. But our spiritual ancestors prevailed.
I don’t see a way out of our current situation. Luckily, we don’t need to. We only need follow God’s calling on each of us individually, and ultimately there will be victory.
I refuse to join the Republican party until they take certain steps to prove to me that they are serious.
1. They need to understand that the media is against them. Every Republican politician/consultant/stategist/PR person that goes to a news program needs to go prepared to be attacked, edited and/or take out of context. No more acquiescing to Progressive debate moderators, no more buddying up with them in the primaries, no more taking their s**t on TV.
2. They need to understand that the Tea Party is NOT their enemy. The Tea Party wants fiscal responsibility, and that means that we have to do away with Bush’s compassionate conservatism BS.
3. They need to ATTACK (politically speaking of course) Democrats. Being strictly defensive will not win enough games to matter. That is where the Alinsky Democrats want Republicans, always defending. If a Democrat calls a Republican an evil capitalist, then that Republican needs to respond back by stating the Democrat is pro-slavery; because that is what they are. Democrats want more people dependant on the government and voting to keep them in office. Dependancy = slavery. They are just changing the production from bales of cotton to votes.
If Republicans, and especially the establishment Republicans, are not willing to take these three steps then I see no reason to join up with them. They will continue to lose more and more of the elections and culture in gradual increments.
– local so as a lifelong Republican I will now volunteer more at my county central committee.
NAH! Chicago-style thuggery (now nationalized) was on full display for every American to witness…Yes! “Shock-and-Awe!” The Axelrod philosophy won the day as he did (in chicago and elsewhere) many times before, its his MO!Now, Obama will grant blanket amnesty to some 19 million illegal aliens already in the US…another issue to prepare for in 2014 and 2016.
If America thinks 2016 is going to be any different, have got another think coming! Is already being prepared, organized and perfected. This was a trial run of A Chicago districts 2004 election process, now nationalized! And it worked!!!
With this MO, the Democratic Machine is energized, has their template in place and will have new “side bars” to their strategy, Katy-bar-the-door for what’s to come.
Need proof? Here goes:
Frontpagemag.com
Voter Fraud: Obama Won %108 of Registered Voters in Ohio County
November 9, 2012 By Daniel Greenfield
Let’s face it. Obama won the election. Just like Putin and Ahmadinejad did theirs. The only difference is that unlike Iranians and Russians, Americans won’t be gathering in the streets to protest their disenfranchisement at the hands of the corrupt Democratic Party machine.
First, he received over 99% of the vote in districts where GOP inspectors were illegally removed. Next, he won 100% of the vote in 21 districts in Cleveland.
Well, he’s gotten another lucky break!
Mr. Obama won Wood County in Ohio this year. That’s right, Mr. Obama won the majority of Wood County’s 108% of registered voters. That’s not a typo.
In 2012, 106,258 people in Wood County are registered to vote out of an eligible 98,213.
Secretary of College Democrats Morgan Holliger chimed in, “We won Wood County, we won Ohio.”
Mr. Obama did indeed win Wood County, along with its 108% of voters.
Half the Democratic ground game is voter turnout. The other half is voter fraud. Voter ID would make an impact on this game, but that would be just like the return of Segregation or something.End of article.
Their are 12 or more instances of voter fraud this 2012 election. 2016 elections will have a repetition of these and others. Watch for Secretary of Voter and voting in every State having sympathetic Democratic minions appointed to these key posts. They will insure that registrations vs. ballots ARE NOT verified…as in Ohio’s Wood County case. We The Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC have their greed and power agenda’s to care for, while We The People are doing all the heavy lifting.
Keep the faith, We The People will prevail. There’s more of us than there are Washington DC “Elites”…let this sink in!!!!Pray. Amen.
This 2012, Republicans missed getting some 6 million additional Registrations and voters to the polls because of a totally inadequate RNC dominated, but broken organization. McCains 2008 broken organization repeated itself in 2012. RNC is a woefully lacking, organizational enterprise. New blood, new thinking Tea Party Patriots must take over this RNC “Jim-Crack” political aparatus. Amen.
They couldn’t even get my simple campaign button to me until 3 days before the election and notified me then that the remainder of my order was back ordered.