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tbrown wrote:

K.Mooneyham wrote:

bagman45 wrote:I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this, but here goes: Democrats, Republicans; same stuff, different stack....

And if you truly believe that, the leftwing press has indeed done their work well. They have you not caring anymore...but guess what, the Obamanation will be rallied to vote for the next hard-core leftwinger they nominate.

Additionally, if you think its easy to fix a national party, then why don't we look at just the politics in THIS state...surely, with all the fine conservatives and libertarians in our state, we could get things running right here in Texas at least. NOPE, we still end up with folks we don't like in charge of things we don't want them in charge of

It sounds like you're agreeing with him. When people tell me Texas Republicans are pro gun, I ask them how long it took the 2/3 Republican majority to pass campus carry in 2011.

Sometimes, I wish I were elegant like TAM or an English major instead of a mechanic. I do a terrible job of explaining things. Let me try something simpler so I won't mess it up. We have to fix things by voting for better people in the primaries, to weed out those who backdeal us. That AIN'T going to happen in the Democrat Party, so our only option is to do so in the Republican Party.

bagman45 wrote:I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this, but here goes: Democrats, Republicans; same stuff, different stack....

And if you truly believe that, the leftwing press has indeed done their work well. They have you not caring anymore...but guess what, the Obamanation will be rallied to vote for the next hard-core leftwinger they nominate.

Additionally, if you think its easy to fix a national party, then why don't we look at just the politics in THIS state...surely, with all the fine conservatives and libertarians in our state, we could get things running right here in Texas at least. NOPE, we still end up with folks we don't like in charge of things we don't want them in charge of...but it could be worse. Can you imagine if Bill White were Governor? Would that make folks happier, since "they're all just the same"? What if ALL the committees were in Democrat Party hands? Would that make everything better, since "they're all just the same"? These aren't your grandpa's farm-subsidy-help-the-poor-folks Democrats. They don't have any common ground with us regular folks...and a lot of them really don't like your firearms, at all. Not saying there aren't Republicans that are the same way, but we get rid of the Republicans who are no such thing during PRIMARIES. You ain't ever going to get rid of these hard-core leftwinger Democrats if you let them into office...they give monetary handouts to their voters.

And back to the national stage, we did manage to send Ted Cruz to Washington to be our Senator...are you really going to say that there is no difference between Ted Cruz and Chuck Schumer?

All I can say is this. Despite the viewpoint of some, I will still be one of those people who will vote Republican in a general election, if for no other reason than they are not nowhere near as bad as the Democrat Party, and if I can do my tiny little part to hold the "e-brake" and keep the car from going over whatever cliff that is, then I will do so. I'm not saying it ain't going over eventually...I'm not saying that I think that the Republican Party "cares" about me...but as someone who considers himself to be a student of history, I'm betting that a collapse of the government in this nation ain't going to be very pretty...a lot of people are going to be hurt, and likely die. I'd rather not have that happen, or push it away as long as possible. The legions couldn't hold the barbarians away from Rome forever, but they still stood their posts as long as they could...