Cliven Bundy is leaving the Republican Party

[onehandle]

Source: MSNBC

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.

Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.

“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said, according to the Elko Daily Free Press.

The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/cliven-bundy-leaves-the-gop

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Let's hope this is a trend amongst the GOPNRAteahadist base.

Abandon The GOP!

[rpannier]

1. Ahhh the American Independent Party

The Party that had George Wallace as their presidential nominee

Good place for him

[randys1]

2. I was hoping the GOP would split into two equally sized parties thus assuring the end

of conservatism in america

[DJ13]

8. Wouldnt work

We still have cons in control of our party.

[randys1]

9. sadly what we have are DLC folk even though it doesnt exist anymore

[phantom power]

12. The Dems could accomplish something like that

To do it, they have to stop allowing the GOP to pander to their extremist freak base out of one side of their mouth and pretending to be moderates for the low-information "center."

We could start by replacing "tea party" with "republican." There is no Tea Party. These people run with an (R) after their name. There no reason to keep giving the rest of them cover by pretending they don't own their extremists. Make them either own it, or deny them. Either way, it screws them over. Which is the point of a wedge.

Every time one of their extremists shoots their mouth off on TV, radio, twitter, facebook, youtube, whatever-the-hell, that should get put into a special file to be included in future campaign or issue ads. Like this special piece of work:

No idea how my son will die, but I know it won't be cowering like a bitch at UC Santa Barbara. Any son of mine would have been shooting back.

Fuck him. He is a piece of shit. His tragedy sucks, but he blamed me for it and wants to take away my rights. The guy is trying to take away my rights to protect my family. Fuck him every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

--Todd Kincannon

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/todd-kincannon-christopher-martinez-ucsb-killings-052714

That shit is utterly vile, and we should make the GOP choose between apalling most people, or pandering to the vile ones. Historically they get to have it both ways, which is one major source of their success.

[randys1]

13. spoken like true human garbage

not the poster here but the idiot in South Carolina

[wandy]

3. I wonder what Reince Priebus payed him to help change the GOP "image".

[SummerSnow]

11. Promised him a reality show called, 'The Bundy's'

[Jackpine Radical]

34. I thought it was gonna be called

Dork Dynasty.

[SummerSnow]

35. That'll work.lol

[LW1977]

44. Married with Children?

[SummerSnow]

15. He got kicked out of the club.lol

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. He embarrassed them publicly, but don't ever think they don't still agree with him. They may no....

longer embrace him because of what he said, but you'll never convince me that they don't support him in their hearts. If the backlash hadn't been so fierce & immediate, he'd still be their "conservative darling".

[phantom power]

5. +1

The GOP is still ruled by their extremist base.

[Populist_Prole]

7. Bingo

They like him, it's just that his manner is too impolitic for them to win national elections. They certainly do in fact agree with him though.

[Rhinodawg]

10. + 1000

so true

[JoeyT]

33. Probably the only thing I ever agreed with that came out of Bundy,

was his attitude toward being abandoned by the right wing. He (rightly) assumed an attitude that amounted to "What the hell are y'all so mad about? I just said what everyone is thinking!"

Which is a good way to get abandoned by Republicans and other right wingers, because what they're thinking is usually pretty abhorrent, and they know saying it out loud costs them support.

[NV Whino]

6. And the Republican Party heaves a sigh of relief.

[Skittles]

14. oh he is teabagger to the core

who does he think he is kidding?

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. When the belfry can't hold anymore Bat-Shit-Crazy

they have to go back to the caves.

[Xipe Totec]

17. Exit stage left, or stage right? nt

[longship]

18. Heavens to murgatroyd!

BTW, as the video attests, it is exit stage left. We'll have no right stage goings on going on here.

[Xipe Totec]

19. I can't stop laughing!

Excellent reply!

[longship]

20. Updated.

[AlbertCat]

22. Well.....

Stage left is to the right from the audience's point of view.

[xfundy]

24. I'd forgotten how nelly he was.

And he was pink, even!

[AlbertCat]

21. Cliven Bundy is leaving the Republican Party

Does he owe them money too?


Wake me when he leaves the planet.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

23. Um, does he vote for federal politicians when he claims to not recognize the federal government? nt

[Ash_F]

25. Maybe he'll run for president and split the GOP vote!

[SummerSnow]

38. This image goes great with your post

[Crowman1979]

42. He looks like an old/wrinkled Alex Jonestown.

The only difference being that Alex will not live that long, seeing that he's rather obese and prone to have fits of anger rather frequently.

[Turbineguy]

26. His preferred party would be named

The Free Shit Party.

Where shit is free and other people's stuff is yours for the taking.

[mindwalker_i]

27. They stopped giving him reacharounds?

[olddad56]

28. Intersting racists quotes. Too bad he doesn't own a baskteball team.

[bhikkhu]

29. I haven't got much good out of either political party either, personally

If I were checking my bank balances, or checking my inbox for thank-you's and pats on the back and so forth.

But I'm sticking with the one that champions civil rights and social justice, that protects social programs that help those most in need, that protects the environment, and that considers the whole country and all its people as essentially worth the effort of governing well.

Its certainly not all about me.

[blkmusclmachine]

30. Oh, so you're a Green Party person.

[olddad56]

31. I agree. The Dems may not be the perfect, but they are better than the GOP.

and for now, they have my vote.

[abakan]

32. Oh he is breaking republican hearts....There there Hannity.......

Do not cry your cowboy will come back we all know how little boys love cowboys.

[SummerSnow]

36. ...

[sofa king]

37. A stage exit, to be sure.

He'll stay away just long enough to be left out of the mid-term election conversation, and so anything he does say does not sully the pristine Republican reputation in campaign season.

I'm choking back a laugh as I write this observation, but it's still pretty damned true: This is the modern-day version of the Republicans "tacking to the center" in an election year.

[Ned Flanders]

39. 5th Dimensional Chess

I'm still waiting for the Feds to prosecute someone in that affair. The contrast between the crackdown on Occupy and the lack of same against this crowd is killing me. Do we really need to start bringing weapons to protests to avoid pepper spray and arrest?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

40. You mean the KKK would take him?

[3catwoman3]

41. Too bad he's not...

...leaving the country.

[Javaman]

43. In other words...

he's shopping around for a group of like minded 1%'er morons who also don't want to pay their fees and taxes.