Because the party doesn't mean what you think it does. They will never allow anyone who isn't reliably controlled to have a chance to take a position of power.
Nobody forced anyone to vote for the boring, reliable trio. Naive republicans have been wasting their votes voluntarily for two generations, and there is no sign they have learned anything. Trust King Donnie Trump? HAH!

Soda bottles? Looters wasting fine whiskey as they do everything.

Ben Carson is going to be in my neighborhood - Elko, Nevada - next Wednesday evening. I want to go, but right next door at the Convention Center and at the same exact time is the BLM public comment meeting on the huge sage grouse Management Plans that is taking my gold project. I need to be at the BLM meeting, but would like to accost Ben Carson with this whole sage grouse thing. As far as I know, Carson doesn't have a clue as to what is happening to us in these western public land States.

I need to clone myself!

Scene: The smoke-filled back room. The iconic GOP power brokers are sitting around a large table with bottles of single malt scotch and soda bottles and glasses. An Iconic power broker speaks:
I.P,B.
You mean to tell me we'll have to resort to telling the truth?

yes, they have played their game so thoroughly that
the voters have figured them out ... and oh, are they
p i s s e d. -- j
.

yes. . Trump/Carson might win, as a ticket. -- j
.

This whole thing about destroying Trump is stupid. He is the only one, perhaps excepting Carson, who is willing to be politically incorrect and tell it like it is. Thats what the GOP doesnt like, because they all lie and manipulate us.

I am voting fro Trump. When the emperor has no clothes, I want to hear about it

Yes, a number of people with principles eventually left to form the Libertarian Party. Sad that a scumbag like LBJ caused so much damage to the republic. Of course, the GOP didn't have a history of sticking to principles at all.

If they do this, then Hillary will win. They may be arrogant enough to think they can swing enough voters to win if they go Independent, but I do not believe that is true. Their best chance for victory lies in painting their individual political platforms on the canvas of 'Republican'.

Jan

After the failure of the Goldwater Republican Revolution, the party realized and acquiesced to the reality that they had no answer to the progressive money-for-votes scheme. And so they compromised their principles until none remained.

What they never explain is why it is perfectly OK to force millions of people to hold their nose and vote for Bob Dole, Mitt, or John McCain. but let someone come along with no strings back to big money and popular appeal...well something just has to be done about that. Why can't they hold their nose and take one for the party?

I can think of a couple who would be worse, and thank heaven they're not running yet. Pelosi and Feinstein.

I can think of a couple who would be worse, and thank heaven they're not running yet. Pelosi and Feinstein.

Thank you, Donald Trump, for showing that your word on this point is no good. Now you can be excluded from the primaries. Problem solved!

the "establishment" repubs need to go...let an objectivist/libertarian phoenix rise out of the ashes...

Good one

What I find funny is that the GOP has never learned that if it sticks to its' principles, it will win.. But instead, they want to be liked. You wouldn't go back to your doctor just because you "like" him if he was not helping you become well. Our country is in a fiscal crisis and whether you "like" someone should take a back seat to someone who can "heal" this economic cancer that we've been diagnosed with. Many people have been enamored by the doctor they elected just to find that he only plays one on TV. (Sorry for the medical analogy, however, it was most fitting)