Thread: Factions the "Conservative Movement" could do without AKA Least Favorite Wingnuts

The AMMO SHORTAGE thread made me think of this.

It seems that the Republican party is a really a hodgepodge of factions.
I suppose most political parties are.

As I fall somewhere between Bork and Buchanan there are sections of the party that I would like to see cut out like a cancer.

I thought I would start a poll for us right wingers to hate our own party sort of.

Which faction or factions would you like to see go away?

Which give the party a black eye?

I'm going to ask the leftists, commies, and saboteurs to keep their hands off this one.
IT IS NOT I repeat IT IS NOT A PRIMARY
you are not allowed to come in and skew the results as happened with McCain in Michigan.

I am going to ask that all voting members please disclose you vote for the purpose of keeping the count clear.
votes that are not disclosed will be dismissed as meddling.

for those who aren't aware of what happened in MI (and doubtless other states)
Obama was not in the Primary
there was a semi organized movement among people I know to canvas all Dems who would have voted Obama to instead vote for the Republican LEAST likely to win
THAT is how McCain won MI
The primary system is flawed and it allowed the results to be cheated.

I am a centrist with some left and right leanings. Can I vote?

I might be a Marxist, I have not studied his work but I do believe that we are headed, as he predicted, to a communist state.

I am not a Republican, Democrat, Green Party, Libertarian, or Vegetarian.

actually it seems I can make votes public

I want to keep this clean.

X precluded religion from his poll (unicorns and fairys and such)

sorry but no

I don't mean that to be rude either.
I just don't care to see this turn into a melee.

Well I am a Marxist, but am still going to vote here. Here is a view from the outside:

Most of us on any "wing" want what is best for people. There are a few exceptions - as I see it, they are:

Racists. Plain and simple. Supremacists of any kind give the right (and left, because that happens, too) a really bad image.

People who paint "the Left" with a broad, ugly brush. There is, as on the Right, a wide and varied range of opinions. There is no way to communicate with people going into the situation with a lot of assumptions - many of them wrong - and a lack of willingness to give them up when faced with something which runs contrary. (I think of Coulter, Limbaugh, and Savage here in particular. The combination of bombast and willful ignorance does no one any good. None of these people have an excuse for not knowing, as each of them has had every opportunity to mingle with all sorts. But they remain stuck in their rhetoric because that's where the money is for them. Too bad they are not servants of the truth - or even a bit of nuance - their voices carry, they could be working for a better place.)

Ultra Nationalists. There is a whole world out there, and we're part of it. We are in an integrated world economy now, and peeving the rest of the globe is not going to help anyone. Such laughable things as "Freedom Fries" make the entirety of a wing look idiotic.

Wayne LaPierre. Well, fear-mongers in general, really.

(and in the interest of fairness - on the left - Eco terrorists, racists, vegans, feminists who hate men.)

Registered "no party affiliation" . If you had an option to vote "all of the above" I would have participated.

I'm a rabid Libertarian, but that usually get's me labeled as a right-wing-whacko, so I'm gonna vote

dunno why, I don't consider Libertarians to be left or right.

When I tried to vote, I got the following error message:

You did not select an option to vote for. Please press back to return to the poll and choose an option before voting.

I say keep all the factions

I just want someone that is going to take the least amount money as possible out of my paycheck and not worry about what i'm doing or what god i'm praying to in the privacy of my own house.

/does that make me more of an independent?

Originally Posted by jockeys

I'm a rabid Libertarian, but that usually get's me labeled as a right-wing-whacko, so I'm gonna vote

dunno why, I don't consider Libertarians to be left or right.

yes it does
my Libertarian leanings put me waaaaaaaay out in right field

EDIT should have said
people equate Libertarian (hardcore) with radical right winger just because they can't differentiate
I personally feel that Libertarians are closer to Conservatives than Dems
I'm not opposed to debate on this point

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

I just want someone that is going to take the least amount money as possible out of my paycheck and not worry about what i'm doing or what god i'm praying to in the privacy of my own house.

/does that make me more of an independent?

see previous quote lol

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

I just want someone that is going to take the least amount money as possible out of my paycheck and not worry about what i'm doing or what god i'm praying to in the privacy of my own house.

/does that make me more of an independent?

You are getting close to anarchy!