This is a hard thing for us to write, especially since it’s not a done deal for us yet, but we think the MSM and liberals’ apology efforts for Muslim mass-murderer Hasan at Ft. Hood might just be the last straw for the Democrat Party with us.
Liberals are doing everything they can to fabricate a delusion that this was not a terrorist attack made in the name of Islam — which we clearly believe it was. Hasan dressed in his white martyr robes the morning of his murder spree. He gave away his precious Koran the way Islamic martyrs do. He shouted “Allah Akbar” before taking the lives of as many of our soldiers as he could. In the past, he attended mosque with a radical Imam linked to 9/11, and repeatedly talked about how evil the United States is, how much he hates America, and how much Muslims need to kill as many innocents in this country as possible.
This was a terrorist attack, no matter how much the lunatic Left would like to convince you otherwise…or go to great efforts to hug, coddle, and sympathize with the “misunderstood” Muslim terrorist.
This has just gotten ridiculous.
Our loyalty to Democrats was forever shaken by the activities of the Rules & Bylaws Committee that met on May 31st, 2008. On that day, we stood in the pouring, torrential rain soaked to the bone holding signs that demanded Democrats count every vote and operate a fair nominating process. We will NEVER in our lives forget a small Japanese woman in a pink raincoat whom we saw holding a Hello Kitty umbrella with a sign written in washable marker that said, “Every vote counts”. She stood out there by the driveway of the RBC’s hotel until the rain dissolved the paper of her sign and all the marker washed away. And then, she just started shouting and screaming for all votes to be counted.
And the DNC, instead, took delegates away from Hillary Clinton and gave them to Dr. Utopia. They actually TOOK numbers from her and gave them to HIM so that superdelegates could be more effectively pressured to abandon her and hand the nomination over to the most leftist and radical person who has ever run for, let alone been elected, president.
Since May of last year, Democrats have engaged in one crazy, destructive scheme after another, from the reckless Trillion Dollar “Stimulus” spending that was rammed through without even being read by voting members of Congress to the insane economy-killing Cap & Tax nonsense and the deranged takeover of 1/6 of our economy in the Utopiacare debacle.
In regards to all of the above, we’ve consistently felt that after Democrats’ defeat in the 2010 midterms and Dr. Utopia’s defeat in 2012, that moderate Democrats would take back the party and move everything back to the center, where we think the party belongs.
But, honestly, we are so disgusted by the Muslim apologists on the Left that we don’t know if we can continue being Democrats anymore — that we need to accept the fact that we are indeed Independents now.
Independents who support the Clintons and their allies, but no longer moderate Democrats, as the Democrat Party has gone so far to the left, and resides now in such lunacy, that there’s no room for us moderates anymore.
Not that moderates are wanted, as the RBC meeting proved, and as Donna Brazile so consistently emphasized all last year.
The only party loyalty we have rests in the Clintons themselves, and their loyalists. In truth, that’s what’s kept us calling ourselves “Democrats” when in reality we are now “Clinton Moderates”, without a party of our own.
We will vote against anyone who didn’t support the Clintons.
We will happily vote Republican when a good, non-religious zealot is up against a corrupt, machine-candidate, Obot.
We have absolutely no respect for the Democrat Party after the way it’s behaved the last three years.
All of the above would have been UNTHINKABLE to us in 2007. Never in our lives did we think we would vote Republican or call ourselves Indepedents, but that’s where things have certainly moved.
As we process this further, we’ll write more on the topic, but the concerted effort from the White House and DNC to paint Muslim terrorist Hasan as some sort of misunderstood angel on a murder spree is just too much.
For YEARS we’ve heard Republicans talk about what an insane cancer liberalism is, and how much liberals want to destroy America as we know it.
We never believed them…but the last few days have given a new clearness to everything for us.
Liberals are truly running to the defense of a Muslim terrorist…and not running to help his victims…not running to protect Americans from further attacks like this…they are running to defend a murderer.
It’s appalling.
And we think it might just be our very last straw with these loons.
November 10, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Sort of like my transformation from being a Republican to an independent six years ago (after having then voted Republican since 1968). These parties are so absorbed with pleasing their own narrow special interests that they care nothing about the greater good. They are absorbed with telling others how to live their lives instead of “live and let live” (my libertarian streak showing). You are coming to your transformation much earlier in life and good for you. Though, as my excuse, I will say that the two parties were never nearly as bad as they have become in the past 20 years.
November 10, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I became a Democrat as a small child due to President Kennedy. This corrupt DNC and all the corruption that is in it, the theft of Hillary’s nomination was the beginning of the end. These power grabs and all the insanity of the Obama administration beyond disgusting. The DNC seems hell bent on committing suicide. I say let them. Only going to vote for the non-corrupt, we will get all of the creeps out of government and restore our country and Constitution.
November 10, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Were JFK alive today, he would be a Conservative, because he believed in small government, low taxes and a strong national defense. He wouldn’t recognize his old party. Difficult to believe he and Ted were brothers, because politically they were poles apart.
November 11, 2009 at 8:46 am
Not sure he would be a conservative, but he was a free market capitalist. And “free market capitalist” means that he would believe in government regulation that promoted the free market, instead of the crap we have now that promotes vested interests.
November 10, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I am an Independent Conservative. I do not call myself a Republican anymore. Every letter that I send to a member of the House or Senate explains that Americans no longer vote because of what politicians “say” or whether they have a “R” or “D” behind their name. We now vote for principle over all else.
It is a new day in America and I think more of us are united in principle than by our politics of identity.
November 10, 2009 at 9:17 pm
On May 31, 2008, after more than 35 years of being a loyal, toe-the-line, vote-for-anyone-with-a-D-after-their-name Democrat, I became an Independent. I no longer recognize the Democratic Party as being an organization that in any way, shape, or form represents me. I consider myself a Clinton Independent now. I will ALWAYS vote Clinton first, and if there is no Clinton (Hillary, Bill, or Chelsea) then I’ll vote for the person I think can do the job best….regardless of the letter after their name.
Welcome to IndieLand, boys. What took you so long??
November 10, 2009 at 9:39 pm
You know when I stopped being a Democrat? The day Randi Rhodes called Clinton and Ferraro whores at a fund raiser for the Obama campaign, and nobody, absolutely no Dem leadership said a peep. Sean Hannity did, in fact, he said that was inappropriate and said he was sorry Clinton and Ferraro where subjected to it. I don’t even like Hannity, but he did the right thing.
I voted R in the last election, against Obama and for Palin, but I’m not a real R, I’m definitely an independent. Both parties stink.
November 10, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I hadn’t heard what Rhodes did. Wow! That was shocking. But, as a sign of something evil, in a democratic society, when one member can publicly verbally assault someone else of their party because there is no unity, there is no freedom of choice. The drive to put someone into office based on identity politics was so strong, all pretense of decency goes up in smoke. When such a political party starts to engage in tactics like those, it’s best to get out of the way, and only come after the dusts settle.
November 10, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thank you Hillbuzz for that article. Clear, concise and exactly as I feel. Even now, almost two years since the misogyny started, I still get sick recalling how the Dims acted. I will never forget nor forgive the people in charge who pushed the good candidate out and pushed bambi in. No more D for me…I am Independent all the way.
November 10, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I understand exactly what you are saying. The absolute, most concise statement, explaining General Casey’s abysmal, pandering, and utterly stupid “our strength is in our diversity” screed came from conservative talker Jim Quinn (who I never would listened too two years ago).
Quinn emphaticly stated this morning “our strength is in our exceptionalism.” Not a damn PC quota.
The world seems upside down. What I used to thing was wrong is now right; and public personas I used to find trustworthy are now not deserving of my time (let alone vote).
I feel like we are living V…and we don’t know who the Lizard people are.
Boyz, please be careful…I was really scared for you when I read you were locked out of your own page. There are more Lizard people than any of us ever would have guessed.
November 10, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Hey, you’re slurring real reptiles, who are not bad animals.
November 10, 2009 at 9:49 pm
This is a small race, but I think significant….http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzA4NDE3ZTEyYTJlN2YxYTFlYzEzODU1ZmFlMTc5ZjI=
I don’t think people are going to what hit them until they go through an election.
November 10, 2009 at 10:31 pm
HB – there are so many things I enjoy reading when I come to your site. Perhaps one of enjoyment comes from your refreshing look at the current situation. I love honest, humble reflections that people make. It encourages me that basic decency exists today. Well, welcome to the club! My wife and I became independents a few years ago. What is it we want? Our freedoms!!!! We know right from wrong, good from evil. We love people and we seek to serve and that is the basis of our faith. With the current administration, I can only say that among the good that has come out is that we’ve met some very decent, honest, and humble people such as yourselves. Keep up the good fight!
November 10, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hey Guys,
I’ve been reading you for more than a year now and have witnessed first hand your slow but steady change in the many beautiful, touching and often funny stories you tell us. I believe your metamorphis is almost complete, and you ARE a true Independent.
I am a Republican and will probably remain one until I die. But, I only vote for the candidate that I deem to be worthy of my vote. I do my research on the issues and the backgrounds of those running for office.
I know it is hard for some democrats to believe, but not all of us Republicans are rich, idiotic, bible-thumping, right wing nuts. I grew up believing that this is the greatest country in the world. I believe that is why so many want to come to the land that is synonymous with freedom.
I am truly saddened (on a DAILY basis) by what this president and his stooges are doing to our country. And, truth be told, I think he is ruining what was once a strong political party.
Good luck guys! (And, thank you for the kind words you always have for Sarah Palin. And for those you have had for George Bush and recently Dick Cheney.) I know you didn’t like George Bush, but the farewell letter you wrote about him made me cry, and to this day I think of that letter when I remember what we had and what we now have.
November 11, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Ditto from me! Some of us Repubs have relatives who are LGBT (my daughter), so we can’t “sign on” to some of the views of the party of (R) – the nice thing is that most of them don’t really have a problem with that. I believe you wrote a column about that a few days ago that was quite insightful about how changing the phrase might change this country’s attitude.
Please know that while this transformation is difficult for you, all will be OK in the end. Our country will be better off as more people come to the same realization that you and so many others – on both sides – have. We are AMERICANS first; party loyalty comes much further down the list.
November 10, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Well here’s my disillusionment story with the Republican Party. Ronald Reagan, conservative, 1983, social security going broke (like today) and what does Mr. Conservative do? Raise taxes and kick the can down the road for todays generation to fix or let go broke.
Reagan should have let SS go broke and paid the shortfall out of general revenues. Maybe just maybe it would have been partially privatized if it was costing the Washington crowd money out of their pork barrel projects.
I lost faith in Reagan and the Republican Party and became a Libertarian. Have been one ever since.
Maybe Democrats can for a middle of the road party and let the extremist have the old one. Good luck.
November 13, 2009 at 5:38 pm
TERM LIMITS. Was supposed to be the final words in my sentence above but I hit alt by mistake and it was entered.
November 10, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Congratulations upon making an important step and becoming Independent. I think it is a step that you will not regret in the future.
Since I am Australian and not American, I need to do research on certain issues to get some facts straight. During my recent research I discovered a few interesting things. First and foremost the Democratic Party is in fact playing true to form. Historically speaking you need to go back to the Reconstruction era to discover the truth. What has not changed is the strong arm tactics (the KKK really was an arm of the DNC in those days) and the corruption, especially amongst Black politicians. In those days the other corrupt group were the Radical Republicans.
Second, what was interesting is that I found that the Radical Republicans really do seem very like the RINOs. The RINOs are not moderates, and it is absurd that the lamestream media keep giving out the meme that Dede Scuzzbucket was a moderate – no way.
In all of these instances the politicians are out for themselves. They want the power. The Democrats of the Nineteenth Century got that power in the South by using the KKK to scare the blacks away from voting. Once they scared them away and they managed to take power for themselves they made darn sure that the blacks could not vote again.
What is really obvious though, is that there has been a shift to the extreme left which has been going on since the 1960s. I do remember that fateful day on which JFK was assassinated. I heard the news on the radio as my mother was taking washing off the clothesline. It was a moment that changed the world landscape. I lived through the hippie revolution and the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations too. We had the anti-Vietnam moratorium marches as well, just not on the same scale as in Washington D.C.
What happens in the USA really does affect the rest of the world.
Anyway, it is a brave decision that you have made.
November 11, 2009 at 3:18 am
[...] I am up way past my bedtime, but I just got quite the shot of adrenaline from seeing in my newsfeed the following headline from HillBuzz: “We are very close to no longer being Democrats.” [...]
November 11, 2009 at 8:04 am
well, I used to be a democrat up until last year. I voted religiously for every “D” in every election, most of the time haveign no clue who they were except that they have a “D” after their name.
After I witnessed votes STOLEN from Hillary from this UNDEMOCRATIC party, that was the beginning of the end.
I am now thinking this lunacy is what the UNDEMOCRATIC party always was, and it was the CLintons who pulled it to the center.
THEN… from a “Party of women”, I saw Hillary clinton ripped apart, the sexism from this same fuking democrat who now preach “women’s rights”, NOT ONE democrat stood up against it, I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE the conservatives like Ann Coulter say things like Hillary was subjected to sexism.
And then comes Sarah Palin, OMG, what this poor woman was subjected to, called a whore and a slut… BY THE SAME TWITS WHO CALLED HILLARY THAT… but now saying “oh but we are the party of woman’s rights”
stupid morons… WOMAN’s rights is MUCH MORE THAN JUST ABORTION RIGHTS!
The UNDEMOCRATIC party is dead to me. Now, this radical agenda of wanted to socialize everything that moves. I will NEVER vote for this freak of a party again!
I am now a registered independent, who loves this country, loves the principles it is founded on. It looks like I was more conservative than I thought possible. I will only vote for candidates now.. NOT PARTY! If the repubs don’t adhere to those founding principles, I am not voting for them either. America FIRST!
HillBuzz … thank you for this post!
November 11, 2009 at 9:49 am
I am registered as a Republican, in order to vote in the primaries.
I will vote for whomever will work for all of America as a whole.
That has no need to put us down to the world.
That ends corruption.
That revives our manufacturing base..so our people can have jobs.
That will not deny us our own resources.
No more career politicians in bed with who knows who.
The question is…is there anyone out there, because I belive the MSM has damaged Palin too much now, she may not survive another try.
It matters not if a D or R is after their names, it matters if they love our country and want it to remain prosperous!
November 11, 2009 at 10:13 am
no one believes the MSM anymore. That’s the part the MSM doesn’t get yet… silly rabbit!
they actually think their viewership/reaadership is down b/c of the economy. NOT!!
I have cancelled all that propoganda from my cable, no CNN, no MSBS, no NBS, no ABS, no NBS.
they can say anything about sarah they want.. less and less believe believe any crap the MSM spews out concerning Sarah… or Hillary for that matter.
November 11, 2009 at 11:08 am
Don’t give the MSM so much power re: Palin. If she wants it, she should NOT be defeated by the MSM. Don’t let her be, if you really believe she would be good in the office.
We the People are many more than the MSM!
November 11, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Darlin, Sarah reminds me of one of us tough ol’ Texas broads – she has GUTS! It’s not for nothin’ that she was called the “Barracuda” back in her HS Basketball days. If she wants to run for President, I don’t think the MSM will be able to spin things like they did last time – and even if they do, no one is paying much attention to them anymore.
If she runs, she’s got my full support!
November 11, 2009 at 10:53 am
I jumped that shit May 31, 2008. I’d met Governers, been on the inside track as a Dem blogger, et cet.
I’ve seen the nepotism and the sycophants, and I wasn’t going to compromise my principles to be on Team O. When Hillary lost, I turned to Palin and got so much ~*VENOM*~ that I now say I’m openly Republican.
In my circle of friends/family, I got some resistance, but now it’s par for the course. I think it’s good they see one of their “liberal” friends vote (R) because it demonstrates that Republicans aren’t the caricatures they dream of.
Plus, it was fun to talk to the Log Cabins at Market Days. That poor booth. lol.
November 11, 2009 at 11:14 am
I too am an indy who left the party because it went too far to the left. Reagan said that once, too, “I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me.”
November 11, 2009 at 11:23 am
For Mary-quite contrary:
Read yesterday –
“It all helpfully brings home to the nation that we have lost exceptional people, that we are defended, daily, by exceptional people. What makes them exceptional is not their education, their background, their ethnicity; it’s their willingness to stand a watch, and if need be, to die for the exceptional nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
November 11, 2009 at 11:35 am
[...] appears that the good folks at hillbuzz.org – who are dyed-in-the-wool long time Hillary Supporters and staunch democrats, are finally [...]
November 11, 2009 at 12:15 pm
After years as an Independent voter, I’m now a classical liberal and “small-r” republican: I believe in free trade, small government, freedom from being controlled and harassed by the government, and the rule of law.
I used to vote Democrat about half the time when the Dems were traditional populists. I voted fro Clinton, and even for Gore, God help me. Under the influence of 60s SDS radicals, however, the Dem party is now ruled with an iron fist by Marxists.
Americans who were formerly considered political centrists are now being libeled as radical rightists. If John F. Kennedy were alive, he’d resemble Joe Lieberman–that’s how far Left the Democrat party has been derailed. Now, they are eviscerating the Constitution, looting the treasury, taking over the means of production, and running what is essentially a slow-motion coup d’etat.
I’ll fight them with every bone in my body.
Frankly, the Republicans can’t find their asses with a kleiglight, but I’ll pick the lesser of two evils.
November 12, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I haven’t been to HillBuzz since the election but this sure has been an interesting visit. I’ve been an R and I’ve been a D, mostly because there is no Centrist Moderate party I can join. In my state, you need to belong to a party to vote in the primaries, so I’m running with the R’s for now. Interesting how much common ground we all share. Thanks for your thoughts!
November 12, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I’m a moderate ex-Democrat too. I’m worried about America because I feel like it’s being torn apart by diversity-worshipping Marxists on one side and religious nuts on the other. Both of these groups are against individual freedom and liberty, because they want to force their crazy beliefs on everyone else.
Although I guess the Left is angering me more now, because of their constant excuses for non-white criminals. If a white guy had done what this Muslim did, the lamestream media would be screaming about how it was a terrorist attack. But when a Muslim does it? Oh, it’s because he was picked on by evil racist Americans, and by the way, we’re even more racist for recognizing that he was Muslim. Give me a break! Look at Europe, and see what Islam and multiculturalism are doing to it. It’s horrifying, but nobody will do anything to stop it. And it’s going to happen here too.
I fear this country will either break up in a few decades or turn into a corrupt, Third World alien country that’s American in name only. Either way, the future looks scary, and I don’t know what to do because both parties only care about their special interest groups and not America.
November 12, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Come on in, gentlemen, the Republican water is fine. Welcome to the pool!
November 13, 2009 at 3:20 am
I converted. I was a life-long Democrat – raised in San Francisco during the 60s & 70s to Hippie parents. No church. No rules….
Then came 9/11.
What you’re seeing now with Liberals defending this terrorist, is what I saw happening in the horrific hours after 9/11. CNN “reporters” apologizing to the world for how “our policies have brought this on us” etc. It made me sick.
Since then I’ve opened my eyes to how the conservative side (free market/small govt/personal responsibility) isn’t evil… and actual was what I innately believed myself without knowing these were conservative ideas.
I call myself an Independent (economically conservative, but Libertarian on social issues), but unless the Democratic party becomes more JFK and less Castro, I won’t be pulling the lever for a Democrat anytime soon.
November 13, 2009 at 9:14 am
“They actually TOOK numbers from her and gave them to HIM”
Yep…welcome to the essence of being a Democrat. This is what they do to our PAYCHECKS!
November 13, 2009 at 9:59 am
I have been a devout “R” all my life – raised in a family business where everyone pulled each other up when needed. Never using the Gov’t as a crutch. The far-left (they call them-selves Liberals, but true Liberals have new ideas and do not change thing and just for the sake of change) is rapidly socializing the USA, but Bush was definately no help.
I would not hesitate to join an Independent Party based on Free-Market and Political Reform!
November 13, 2009 at 10:02 am
The first step in solving your problem is admitting you have one. Well done in recognizing what we on the right have known for a while. The Democrat party is corrupt to the bone. The GOP is not much better, but we are working both within and without to clean up our house. The Democrat party fails to recognize that there is even a problem.
November 13, 2009 at 10:03 am
I usually vote ‘R’, but I am disgusted with the party. I am extremely heartened that regular people in both parties are realizing just how corrupt both parties are. I wish Glenn Beck was less outrageous because he has made the claim over and over that the parties are dividing Americans so that we won’t see the socialist, or “progressive”, takeover that’s happening right now. We need to kick out the career politicians in both parties, establish term limits in Congress, elect citizen politicians who care about the country more than themselves. We need a non-violent revolution in this country, where we the people take back the government from the aristocracy that’s in there now. All of us need to become independents and show the parties that they answer to us and not the other way around!
November 13, 2009 at 11:15 am
I am a Christian Conservation. As far as I’m concerned, Democrats are my fellow Americans. Progressives, however, are not. By their own words, attitudes, and actions, they view themselves as Post-American Citizens of the World. They do not have this nation’s interests at heart.
Liberalism really is leading to the demise of America.
November 13, 2009 at 11:39 am
After 40 years voting strictly Dem, I left the Party on 5/31/2007. I was ushered out the door by the ring leader Donna Brazille. I was then a PUMA, and I am now a PUMA. I cannot foresee me voting Democratic again. I am a conservative gay woman, but the only thing I can do is vote Republican in this upcoming election. I feel strongly about Gay issues, but I cannot let them override the fact that if we loose this Country, NO ONE will have ANY rights. NO ONE.
November 13, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I applaud your bravery and it makes my heart happy to see some old school Democrats stand up and take a stand against the radicals hiding behind a democrat mask. Just curious about one thing, why do you want a candidate to be “non-religious?” Because Hillary herself is United Methodist. Possibly you meant non-religious zealot, but that is a very subjective term. When ever any conservative candidate has any hint of religion they call him/her a zealot. If it is about abortion, I am pretty sure that no candidate, no matter how right wing they are would ever strike down that law. It would be political suicide. Take heart in knowing that Bush did not do it in eight years, and neither will any other candidate. There are some great candidates out there that have a religion that I hope you can open your mind to. Regardless, thanks for standing up and voicing what so many need to hear.
November 13, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Amen, boys! I am fiscally far-right and socially moderate, and the Republican party is going to lose a lot of people, too, if they don’t wake up soon.
I think we can contain the Extreme religious Right with separation of Church and State, but the Extreme Left has GOT to be voted out.
I’ll hold my nose and continue to vote Republican til that day comes.
November 13, 2009 at 1:18 pm
It is amazing to this Fed. Govt. designated Dangerous Right Wing Radical Extremist that Americans all over this great land are coming to the same conclusion;
That neither political Party has anything on their mind other than controlling the levers of power.
Thank you for your clarity in this post and the previous post recognizing the innate goodness of Pres. Bush and his wife Laura.
We can take our country back,it will take hard work and a willingness to support imperfect, but essentially correct thinking people that truly love this country and want what is best for all, not a lifetime power position.
November 13, 2009 at 2:26 pm
“And the DNC, instead, took delegates away from Hillary Clinton and gave them to Dr. Utopia. They actually TOOK numbers from her and gave them to HIM…”
Leaves you feeling violated, doesn’t it? Now you know how the rest of us have been feeling all our lives while the Democrats did the same thing with our paychecks.
“Since May of last year, Democrats have engaged in one crazy, destructive scheme after another…”
May of last year? Try FDR’s administration.
Welcome to Real America.
November 13, 2009 at 3:44 pm
It’s pretty sick especially when I read an article today sympathetic to Hasan, crying about him being paralyzed and his hands hurt – hurt because he was shooting at innocent people. Boo freakin’ hoo. Cry me a river.
Came here via The Anchoress. Though I differ in opinion on many things with you all, it is good to read others who are just as concerned about the direction America is headed.
November 13, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Congrats!
It is a period of HEALTHY transition for you..
…as it was for many of us who write here.
For each of us, it’s a different reason or chan of events, but it does eventually turn on the same lightbulb of common sense in seeing what (and I’m being mighty generous and diplomatic here) twists and turns of logic – to the point of abuse and denial thereof – one needs to continue on the “liberal” path.
You might enjoy the writer “Robin of Berkeley” over at American Thinker.
November 13, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Welcome to the party. Pal.
November 14, 2009 at 12:52 am
I was a Democrat once, then a Republican. Now I describe myself as a Conservative; but that can easily mean that I am conservative the way that Harry Truman was conservative, the way that JFK was.
I’m convinced that the Democrat Party has totally abandoned America. I also think the Republican Party – both of them – are hopelessly corrupt and cannot be saved.
I will wait for that centrist party to emerge that loves this country and believes in fiscal responsibility. That fully intends to look out for the interests of all Americans. It won’t be a perfect party, and we’ll have our disagreements, but it will be fundamentally decent and totally American. Proud of itself, proud of America, deeply respectful of the basic common sense wisdom of most of America that we appear to be on the verge of losing forever… it is not too late!
There’s nothing left for me in the Democrat and Republican parties. I’m done with both of them.
November 14, 2009 at 2:17 am
Just curious, Tammy, who are these Extreme Religious Right you speak of? What makes them unacceptable to you?
Also, there is no Separation of Church and State as you seem to think of it.
November 14, 2009 at 11:39 am
And thats why an atheist, “pro-choice” separation of church and state is now a TEAbagging (my own words) hard core free market individual liberty supporter. I would rather work with true religious fundies who want to be left alone (generally) and won’t make me pay (by taking 30-50% of my income IE my productive capacity) for every other human being on this planet to survive, oh, and giving away our sovereignty to tyrannical socialist/fascists shit holes in Europe and Asia in the name of Gia.
November 15, 2009 at 1:40 am
It was 1968 and I considered myself a conservative and a Democrat. I almost worshiped Jack Kennedy and his tragic murder 5 years earlier still numbed me. It was a presidential election year and the Dems came to Chicago and the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Michigan Ave opposite Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain, and Lake Michigan. The Boss, Richard J. Daley, ran the city like a tight ship. I was in the D.C. area and I had just complete my military obligation and had reverted to civilian status when the Democratic Convention started. 1968 was the year of the rioting extreme liberal college kids and a lot of them showed up in Grant Park to disrupt the convertion and demand immediate unconditional withdrawl of US forces from Viet Nam. Mayor Daley shut them down using the National Guard and police. I cheered. Mayor Daley got nothing but grief from the Party but Daley was tough and unbending. Nevertheless I moved pretty quickly to a state of no nonsense Goldwater conservative and a right wing Republican where I remain today. I believe in my country as the most free society on the planet where the promise of the founding fathers and the constitution is alive and well for all who want it. The Democratic Party of today is a socialist party. Marx would approve of the DNC platform as a move in the right direction. I suspect that a majority of those who voted for Obama last November would jump at the chance to change it if they could, knowing what we do now. If Obama continues on the socializing of the country he will loose congress in 2010 and be impeached and convicted in 2010. I know, that means a year of Joe Biden in the White House before the 2012 election, but we will elect a Republican conservative president in 2012. But we’ll see!
November 15, 2009 at 11:02 am
That’s how I felt that September, so many years ago. The Democrat party left me – as Zell Miller said.
I DON’T trend toward the religiously conservative edge, more toward the LEAVE ME ALONE edge.
This is the time for all independents to USE their status to vote for whomever is best suited to run this country. Let the powers in Washington know that you are not going to vote a straight party line, but for those who will properly represent you.
November 15, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I dunno, I’m a conservative and a Republican to the extent it’s about the only reasonable option for me. The one thing that will keep us from winning in 2012 is if your girl runs a primary challenge. I have no idea whether she might, but if Hillary ran against Obama right now she would win and she would defeat any Republican presently on the scene.
Of course that scene will change once Republicans start campaigning. But that’s the present situation. Frankly, I’d welcome her enthusiastically over the incompetent in office now.
November 15, 2009 at 2:06 pm
The only hope to stop this president’s radical agenda is for life-long Democrats to recognize what is going on and vote out the Congressman and Senators that have voted for the stimulus, cap & trade, universal healthcare, and upcoming amnesty. The comments here have given me hope that it just might be possible.
For the record, first time here and I enjoyed reading through all the interesting, respectful, and on-topic comments. Nice job to the moderator filtering out the trolls.
November 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm
What scares me is the way the party that has claimed to stand for women’s rights has participated in the “wilding” of Hillary and Sarah and Bristol and even Carrie Prejean ( you can disagree with her or despise her, but the attempts to sexually humiliate her have been chilling).Condi Rice was the object of incredibly demeaning comments…in fact when you go on liberal websites like Kos and others, ideologically impure women are routinely demeaned and referred to in the most vile ways. You rarely if ever see this kind of thing in conservative circles. There’s a woman running for the House in my district…a nurse…who hesitated to run because in the aftermath of Carrie and Sarah, she was terrified of what she and her family would be subjected to. Her male opponent harbored no such fears.
Who is pulling the strings here?
November 15, 2009 at 10:48 pm
[...] I have two reports upcoming of elected officials or activists who are either leaving the party, or are considering leaving the party, because of the radical leftward tilt of the party, associated heavily with the actions of the supposed Commander in Chief. http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/we-are-very-close-to-no-longer-being-democrats/ [...]
November 16, 2009 at 7:11 am
Even though Dr King Jr was a religious zealot I would vote for him in a heartbeat;in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail he offered many reason as why I must defend “God’s Freedom”.
For as long as there is faith in ‘rights endowed by a Creator’ then worshiping man-made Dr Utopias is less likely to happen.
November 16, 2009 at 9:20 am
I think many of you will wind up voting for Palin in 2012 because the reality is is that she will be the only candidate running for POTUS who will be able to restore America to its greatness and improve the lot of all especially those in the inner cities.
November 16, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I only hope that Scoop Jackson cannot see what has become of his party as I have had to witness. I never ever thought that the Party I used to vote for could have morphed into the insidious Big Brother we grew up opposing. As a 60’s radical I can still say that I oppose this version of the Establishment under The Obamessiah with every fiber of my being. The American people have been put to sleep and don’t know it. Yet………
February 7, 2010 at 3:51 pm
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February 7, 2010 at 3:53 pm
[...] be changing. Change is bad, if you’ve already got a group under your thumb. HillBuzz has publically broken ranks with the Democratic party, and criticized them at every turn since 2008. HillBuzz must be [...]