(12-12-2013 04:20 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (12-12-2013 04:17 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote: Neither the rank and file or the everyday candidates of either party really bother me. It's the infrastructure, the leadership, and the non-elected people who have access to government processes that I have a problem with. Those 3 things run the show the same way in both parties.
Busting in and saying the same thing you have always said doesn't change anything.
1. The libertarians appear to be connected to the Democrats
2. You don't have a product that can sell.
3. Either the Democrats or the Republicans are going to win elections.
4. Your actions only aid the Democrats.
Move away from your script and look at this situation critically.
Well you bust in and say the same things trying to change everything. Why can't I?
1. I'm not in anyway connected to Democrats. Voted for McCrory (may have been a mistake), Renee Ellmers, and one or two others in the last one and overwhelmingly GOP in 2008.
2. I'd agree that Libertarians don't have a cohesive product to sell. You can divide libertarian into a ton of subcategories. Either way, I think there is a product there, but it needs the right voice.
3. That's true for the foreseeable future. They win almost solely because people were basically raised into their ranks. If mommy and daddy voted a certain way, chances are they will too and it's very useful to recruitment. But hey, things happen, and the conditions provide a potential opportunity for a breakthrough. Will people just settle for "the lesser of two evils" to their own peril? Probably so. But let's hope something changes that one day.
4. Look, I don't owe the GOP sh1t. I wasn't born into their party so I don't give them a vote for nothing.
You seem to be the one who needs to step back and think critically. Your whole political stance is "I vote for A because they are inherently better than B, that's all that matters, So Help Me God." I mean, your first response to a Senator's CoS being involved in a child pornography scandal was: This is a democrat plan to hurt the GOP. You didn't mention the kids once. Not once.