re: #275 reine.de.tout

Many of the conservatives still here, are here because of disillusionment with the Republican party and platform.

I’m surprised folks don’t seem to understand that.

Oh, I fully understand that. My point is that if you’re so disillusioned with the gop’s move to the far right, it’s time to give up on them…because the tiny fraction of moderates remaining in the party have virtually no sway. The Rockefeller Republicans of yore aren’t coming back. It’s a southern dominated reactionary party now.

Your choices: become an independent, or even OMG a Democrat (the party that more closely embodies most of what the Western world considers conservative). Or you can cling to the slim hope that the gop regains some moderate voices.

NONE, exactly zero, of the GOP prez candidates even call themselves moderates on any major issues. Instead, they trip all over themselves trying to claim the mantle of “true conservative”, which today just means farthest to the right.