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If you can't get to 50% with an existing party, a smaller, purer party is going to get there?

A purer party in what way? I see a party where American loving democrats, republicans, independents and dis-engaged citizens fed up with both parties can participate and work together to reclaim our birthright. Both the Democrat and Republican parties are out of favor with the American public. They associate the whole bunch as self-serving corrupt greedy bastards. (and they'd be right)

55 posted on 01/07/2013 5:38:23 PM PST by upsdriver
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Okay, that could just possibly win an election. But when you get down to deciding what to do, you’ll have problems. Not everybody is dissatisfied for the same reasons. Some of the objections to “politics as usual” overlap, but many don’t, and those differences will set different groups against each other.


63 posted on 01/07/2013 5:53:10 PM PST by x
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To: upsdriver
I see a party where American loving democrats, republicans, independents and dis-engaged citizens fed up with both parties can participate and work together to reclaim our birthright.

What magic fairy dust are you sprinkling on this new party that is going to make Democrats get along with Republicans any more than they do now? You're just talking pie in the sky here. Democrats believe in more government, why would they suddenly join this new party that is presumably even more conservative than the existing GOP? Or is this new party going to be more liberal than the existing GOP to attract these Democrats? Why would conservatives want to be part of that?

Reclaim our birthright? What part of the Democrat coalition talks like this or has any interest in voting for these reasons? Blacks? Hispanics? Gays? Chronically unemployable? People that pay no federal taxes but collect freebies? This is just wishful thinking on your part. Democrats and people of the left believe the answer to our problems is government, those of us on the right do not. There is no reconciling that within some new party.

They associate the whole bunch as self-serving corrupt greedy bastards. (and they'd be right)

Politicians are politicians. Some new party isn't going to make them magically more honest. There are lots of 3rd party's and none of them have made politics any better. In all of these 3rd party's is the same infighting you'd find anywhere else. Some new party full of Republicans and Democrats determined to get along would immediately break down into fights between left and right, complete with all the same intrigue and politics.

75 posted on 01/07/2013 6:48:20 PM PST by Longbow1969
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