I believe that the #1 cause of the Republicans loosing the female v**e is because they always preach about the evil of a******n. Why do they insist on taking to the Fed level? Why not leave it alone. Immigration is another difficult issue. I******s should not be here and rewarding them citizenship will continue to be the a magnet and they will keep coming. They are mostly poorly educated and will be on assistance not matter how much the politicians say otherwise. It's hard for me to agree with the RNC's or, DMC''s total platforms so I am independent but, conservative Tea Party.

FTA
Republicans are nice people. Too many Republicans think it's wrong to criticize other Republicans.

This failure to be forthright has had consequences. It has allowed the Republican Party to take up political space it has no business occupying as it embraces left-wing statist tyranny. Much of the time, the GOP is merely Democrat-lite.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are so dangerously out of touch and out of control nowadays in part because other Republicans have allowed them to get that way. Boehner and McConnell regard conservatives as a nuisance to be overcome, co-opted, subverted, and if necessary, eliminated.

A new way of thinking is required.

For a start, if you self-identify as a Republican and you are serious about restoring the Constitution, shrinking the government, and reducing government spending, it is wrong to think of other Republican Party members as necessarily being your friends.

A political party isn't a club or a sacred religious order. It isn't a brotherhood or fraternity. The other people in the party aren't necessarily your friends, or even people you'd feel comfortable lending your lawnmower.

Here is wisdom: if you, as a Republican, remain true to small-government principles, many of your worst enemies will be found in your own party, and they are likely to be much more vicious, petty, vindictive, and malicious than most of your adversaries on the left. Intra-party squabbles and in-fighting are among the most brutal of all political conflicts in America.
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Personally I can attest to the t***hfulness of this information. I was set upon by republicans on a site a couple of days ago because I dared to v**e Libertarian in the last e******n - they insisted I helped them lose, even though I pointed out they lost by 2% of the v**es, yet Libertarian v**es came to only 1%. I told them I v**ed on principle - that Gary Johnson was the only one who truly valued individual freedoms - and they told me that principles do NOT COME BEFORE WINNING. But I can't believe the public can expect to see principled politicians when the people who elect them aren't doing so on the basis of principles. Maybe I am simply crazy.

About the makeup of the e*****rate.

TEA Party conservatives are winning today. You can tell by the hysterical over-the-top vitriolic rhetoric the liberals use whenever they are losing.

How can you prove we conservatives are winning? For over 2 decades, about twice as many Americans have claimed to be conservatives as liberals, 46% to 20% in 2012 according to Gallup, despite liberals dominating the media, universities, and Hollywood. Liberals become conservative once they move out of their parents’ home, get a job, get married, buy a house and pay taxes.

IF YOU LOOK AT A BELL CURVE

On the left, see a few hundred articulate and persuasive intellectuals of Socialism. People like John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul Krugman, (in Blue) followed by many more political activists (Orange) and the broad center low-information v**ers. (Green).

On the right, a few hundred articulate and persuasive intellectuals of free market Capitalism, like Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and William Buckley, followed by many more in the choir. How good we get at “PERSUADING” the vast number in the broad middle, who may be great engineers, great musicians, great gardeners, church goers, parents but they are almost totally non-political, and who determine the nation’s fate.
You may be thinking to yourselves, Fred, you are speaking to the choir. But the choir is what counts in politics. It is critical that we spend time energizing the choir and providing it the intellectual ammunition to influence others to join our cause; to teach why limited government, private property, and the free market based on voluntary exchange is the only moral economic system ever devised.

The purpose of teaching others the philosophy of freedom, is not to convert them into believing in freedom from government, but to find them. More precisely, help them find themselves in becoming passionate about individual liberty and to swell the ranks of the choir. It’s the choir, it is us, who carry freedom and civilization forward generation to generation.

To better understand see http://www.romancingthev**ers.com for 2 Free Chapters

Principled Politicians - Now where in Washington or any other place do we find some of those? Or at least enough to make a difference?

I don't think there are any incumbents that can make that claim, oh maybe a couple or three. But of those few, how many would you really trust? Let's see, Cruz, no to much political baggage. Rubio, no he is to wishy washy. The only one that I can think of is Trey Gowdy. Not that I know that much about him, but man he likes a good fight and doesn't seem (seem) to give a care about someone's feelings, when looking for the t***h.

I agree wholeheartedly with your statement. I wish that we had 500 Gowdy-like people in the House and 50 in the Senate, but not going to happen.

Right now we need to maintain the House and take back the Senate with Republicans. The only way that is going to happen is for all conservatives to join together and v**e Republican. We conservatives are a minority in this "free" (as in cellphones) society and can't afford to be fractured in our v****g. We all need to v**e for Republicans even if it makes you ill to do so. Once we have "conservative" control, then we can go about eliminating the RINO's. However, if we don't join together, it's guaranteed that the Liberals will continue to win the e******ns and destroy our Constitutional Republic.

It may already be too late to win back the WH right now, but we can win the local and some of the national e******ns at the Senate and House level which would effectively eliminate the power crazy Socialist in the WH presently.

I see your point, however, I believe the unprincipled population outnumbers the principled population at this time. The real problem is, what has changed? How did a very large segment of our people become unprincipled? In a word, entitlements. Not saying that some entitlements are not needed, or have not been earned. I am saying that the corruption and criminality of the unprincipled masses that will only v**e for those who continue to provide "entitlements" need to be abandoned and replaced with honest and insightful overview.

My friend, you are absolutely correct! In my early years, I was a dummycrat because my parents were! When the totally perverted JFK came on the scene acting like some kind of saint, I switched. For a short while, I looked to the Repub-A-Flubs until I saw there were jackals in this corrupt party as well. I then became an independent conservative and damn proud of it! It would be a tremendous help if we had a Conservative Party that could be truly trusted.....wishful thinking I know! The Tea Party might be the way if we can weed out ideologues.
The party I have in mind would uphold the Constitution as it is written, uphold and enforce all laws on the books, and remove all judges(by force if necessary) who support their wrongly claimed right to change law instead of interpreting as it is written. Any judge who rules against a majority v**e of the people would immediately be fired and their rulings v**ed!
If one has a problem with the Constitution and our laws, there are ways to effect change! But not the perverted lawless brain dead c*******t socialist i***ts controlling our Nation right now! They can't stand one word of our Constitution or most laws, so they corrupt all systems causing our Nation to now become known as, "THE UN-UNITED PERVERTED STATES OF AMERICA"!......ENJOY WHILE YOU CAN FOR SOON WE WILL BE NO MORE!!!!!!