About this issue with Ill. I feel there should be a special election as well. Everyone’s hand is poisioned at this point so it’s in the best interest to let the people decide, Republican, Democrat, or Independent. Now that’s fair game!

Monica

I am a conservative. I am no longer a Republican. To paraphrase the words of the great Ronald Wilson Reagan, I did not leave the Republican party; it left me. John McCain is an honorable man and I respect the sacrifices he and his family have made for this country, but he is not a conservative. In my view, he was the Democrat in the race. Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist. I don’t use that word to be inflammatory. What’s inflammatory is that Marxist is an accurate description of his record on the issues. What more does one have to see to know that the two-party system broken when the Republicans nominate a Democrat and the Democrats nominate a Marxist? And what more does one have to see to know that the Republican party is broken than to see RINO McCain nominated and then engage his bi-partisan senatorial collegiality and refuse to take the fight to Obama. Without going issue by issue, I contend Obama is still an Indonesian citizen. Don’t believe me? Prove me wrong. You can’t. The biggest problem is that neither can McCain nor Obama. Phil Berg tried, but the clinton-appointed judge said he didn’t have standing to bring the suit and dismissed it. Where is the Constitution-borne outrage? Oh yeah, the Constitution has been repeatedly abrogated by both parties for the last 100 years.

The country is broken (and broke) and no thinking person can honestly expect it to be repaired either by a broken system or by its two broken component parties. A move to the right and a ticket with either Palin or Jindal would get my attention (remember governors beat senators) and perhaps my vote. Until then, I will not vote “lesser of two evils”. I will vote Libertarian or Constitution Parties. If the Republican Party continues to move to the left, it will rarely, if ever, get my vote again.

We need to stand up and live by the Republican Principles stated on the GOP website:

Each person is to have dignity, freedom, ability, and RESPONSIBILITY
Equal rights for all – legal citizens
Free enterprise -although not free of all regulations
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY – the Achille’s heal of our party during recent Republican Presidents – we need balanced budgets and the ability to say ‘no’ to more federal deficits.
“Provide only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations’ or state or local governments … no more earmarks and pork for items that only have local interest – no more bridges to nowhere or wooden arrow grants.

Lets find the center once again, and start building on the principles Ronald Reagan taught us and bring us back to the center. Give the Dems a chance to see where they are going and then lets be the loyal opposition – not the whining GOP you are promoting on our RNC website.

In order to move ahead we need to embrace the middle – the vast number of people who do not trust us to run any party much less the US. We have lost our way under the current RNC leadership and President. We need a totally new direction based less on conservative ideals and more centrist and fiscal – no more religious right.

I’m a 20 year old college student, and I think the RNC needs to make even more of an effort to tap into young Republicans. 68% of people under 30 voting Democrat = trouble in the near future. I hope the RNC looks to tech-savvy college graduates to help increase its prominence on the Internet. This is so important to young people!!

Also, I know this isn’t the case everywhere in the country, but I know for a fact that what drove many college students from voting McCain was the fact that there is a lot of bigotry/racism in some GOP supporters. I hope there is an effort to eradicate these small factions of our party; it will help our image.