Opinion of the Republican Party?

[Clark Kent]

Pretty consistently fantastic, with a whole bunch of nutjobs along the way. FP

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'm abstaining. I'm a registered Republican, and a Conservative, but our party has been heading towards disaster for a while now.

The Party of Lincoln, Coolidge, Goldwater, Buckley and Reagan was a FF Party.

RIP, Republican Party (1854-2016).

Putting Lincoln in one category with Buckley is like putting Obama in one category with Theodore Biblo.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

An absolute abomination. Hopefully Trump can give this nation a serious party.

[ScottieF]

Utterly bankrupt, both morally and in terms of realistic policy proposals. It's as bad as its ever been, just in time for all the chickens to come home to roost after a half century's journey down a very ugly path.

[Maxwell]

Pretty huge Horrible Party - You'd have to go back to, what, before Dwight Eisenhower to find a Republican nominee who wasn't a certified HP? Yeah, historically they were founded on a good cause, abolition, but the party has largely pissed on itself in the past century.

Wait, before Eisenhower? So you consider Eisenhower a "certified HP"?

Poorly worded - Eisenhower is fine, but any Republican President after him is horrendous.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

It's amusing when some people say "Republican Party was great, but now Trump came to ruin it". It was the Republican Party and it's policy that allowed Trump becoming it's major contender to happen in first place.

[Santander]

^^ Reagan is a top 10 president.

I have no problem with the remaining moderate factions that Graham, Kirk, Isakson, etc. represent. "Solid Conservative but willing to make deals" people like Paul Ryan are ok.

The majority of presidential scholars would disagree with you regarding Reagan.

Kirk's a moderate, but Isakson and Graham are solid conservatives. They just happen to be part of the 10 or so GOP senators who are deal makers. Paul Ryan is a dime-a-dozen deficit hawk who just happens to be good at making friends.

There are numerous Republicans in the past 50 years that I regard highly - including Margaret Chase Smith, Dick Lugar, John McCain, George Bush Sr. and even Pat Buchanan - but the historical orientation of the GOP turns me off. Even with my disdain for the Democratic Party's leftward drift, especially on social issues, I think I'll always be a natural Democrat.

[SATW]

I wound up voting FF. I won't let Trumpism chase me out.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Some yucky elements (cough Trump cough), but otherwise solid Freedom Party.

[RightBehind]

Horrible party. You from noble people with the likes of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Warren and La Follette and then you turn completely on your head and you continue to say and do the most asinine things.

I will admit the Dems are hardly perfect, but I have a hard time imagining we could ever be as bad as what the GOP has given for us for the past seven years.

[Intell]

Has gotten progressively worse since 1880, (with exceptions).

[President Johnson]

Horrible at this time.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Tea Party who ushered in Palin, made a big mistake in picking Trump over Cruz.  Continue, to be a problem in House on Obamacare repeal and threats shutting down govt

[RINO Tom]

There's no way I could have supported the party after 1960. A few GOP Govenors have been decent but not the national party - not the party of Goldwater, Reagan, and Bush.

After reading "Republicans and Race" (HIGHLY recommend), there's literally no difference between the GOP of 1960 and 1970, dude.  The end of one-party rule in the South affected the Democrats much more than it did the Republicans, despite popular belief.

[Kingpoleon]

FP, as is the Democratic Party.

[Antonio the Sixth]

FP, as is the Democratic Party.

lol

[Vosem]

Has some big problems that need sorting out, but still on the whole a very literal Freedom Party.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Annoyingly, my horrible party vote somehow was saved into a freedom party vote.. But I'm not fundamentally against what the party should be. I'm just disgusted with how racist feelings against Obama has turned into 8 years of disastrous obstruction and how a fascist is leading their party now. Clean stuff up and I may be interested.

So you're okay with it being conservative, but you're not okay with its elected officials opposing liberal policy initiatives? I'm confused.