Thread: Republican Defectors: This ‘Lesser Of Two Evils’ Bit Is Getting Old

Republican Defectors: This ‘Lesser Of Two Evils’ Bit Is Getting Old

July 5, 2013 by Ben Bullard

PHOTOS.COM

Fiscal and/or social conservatives have gotten more and more fed up with moderate Republican political candidates over the years, a fact that galvanized jaded conservative voters in the mid-2000s who came together to form the disparate, but united, Tea Party movement — a movement that hasn’t shown signs of losing momentum.
Now, a study of disaffected conservatives who leave the GOP reveals a corresponding disgust among voters who’ve favored Republican candidates on the reasoning that those politicians may not reflect true conservative values, but at least they’re better than the unrepentant liberals whom they aim to defeat.
This so-called “lesser of two evils” argument has left conservatives voting for the John McCains, Mark Rubios, Rick Santorums and Chris Christies of the world, only to sit through the GOP winners’ elected terms bemoaning that politicians are all the same and that mainstream Republicans are RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).
Market research outfit Frontier Lab examined the attitudes of GOP voters who’ve had enough and identified a number of reasons why they decided to check out. Chief among those was the fatigue of having to choose from between the “two evils” of traditional two-party politics, with some voters striking out in support of independent candidates whose platforms more closely reflected their own conservative views.
In addition, the study found many voters had grown frustrated with what they perceive as a lack of conservative leadership within the Republican Party’s upper echelon, even though many Republican candidates at the local level struggle to reconcile their own conservatism with the national party’s increasingly moderate platform — a platform laid down by the GOP’s centralized, rarefied national politicians, with plenty of help from lobbyists and advisers.
Interestingly, the Tea Party’s grass-roots appeal has filled a void many jaded former Republicans had found lacking, the study notes.
“Beyond losing hope and fatigue with the ‘lesser of two evils’ argument,” the report states, “former Republicans often either rejected the Republican community or found camaraderie in a new one prior to disaffiliating. We saw the Tea Party as instrumental in providing a new sense of community, but also conservative talk radio and independent candidates as other avenues to community outside of the Republican label. In this sense alternative conservative or independent communities play a much larger role than education or political action, but instead supplant and weaken ties to the Republican label.”
View Frontier Lab’s “Switching Behavior” study here.
http://personalliberty.com/2013/07/0...s-getting-old/

this shit and it is "SHIT" aint Flyin No Mo ..... there is little too NO difference between the Democrat and Republican Party at the Federal Level

Sad fact is once they enter the rat hole(DC) they become rats, in my opinion another reason for term limits and limit time in session so the majority of there year is spent in there home states.

I among the frustrated and disenfranchised "Republican-as-lesser-of-two-evils" group. I'm a Tennessean and you probably know both of our RINO puke "Senators" voted for the S. 744 amnesty bill. I assure you Tennessee is a very conservative state. And Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander know this, yet metaphorically they gave Tennesseans the middle finger. You should be encouraged to know that real Tennesseans are fighting back. The Madison Project and local Tea Party groups are looking to find a real conservative to challenge Lamar Alexander in the state primary election. I am trying to do what little I can to pressure the Tennessee Republican organization to ask Bob (body odor) Corker to resign from the Senate. P.S. Money buys a lot of representation in the government. Read David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin's book, The New Leviathan. It documents that the really big money goes to the political left (e.g. the open borders lobby).

Originally Posted by csarbww

I among the frustrated and disenfranchised "Republican-as-lesser-of-two-evils" group. I'm a Tennessean and you probably know both of our RINO puke "Senators" voted for the S. 744 amnesty bill. I assure you Tennessee is a very conservative state. And Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander know this, yet metaphorically they gave Tennesseans the middle finger. You should be encouraged to know that real Tennesseans are fighting back. The Madison Project and local Tea Party groups are looking to find a real conservative to challenge Lamar Alexander in the state primary election. I am trying to do what little I can to pressure the Tennessee Republican organization to ask Bob (body odor) Corker to resign from the Senate. P.S. Money buys a lot of representation in the government. Read David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin's book, The New Leviathan. It documents that the really big money goes to the political left (e.g. the open borders lobby).

Thank you, we must remove these people who sell their souls to the devil, how they seem to ignore the will of the people who voted them in is simply amazing, it's long past time they work for the American citizen.