Posted on 08/30/2012 5:07:45 AM PDT by IbJensen
TAMPA, August 29, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sarah Palin has said a third party may emerge if the Republican Party’s leaders abandon conservative principles.
Asked if the GOP’s increasing fractiousness may lead to a new party taking its place, Palin replied, “If history is an indication it is a possibility – if the Republicans don’t remember what the planks in the platform represent.”
“Look what happened in the mid-1800’s. The Whig Party went away and the Republican Party surfaced, because the electorate got sick and tired of the party fighting for power and not doing the will of the people,” Palin said on Fox News.
Palin’s words echo those made by the founder of a conservative third party, Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party.
“The Republican Party is going to go the way of the Whigs in the 1850s,” said Phillips, who served as the first presidential candidate of what was then known as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, in his 1992 acceptance speech. “It will die the death of a double-minded man – who talks one way but lives in conflict with that which he professes to believe.”
Phillips, who headed the Office of Economic Opportunity during the Nixon administration, frequently likened the modern GOP’s refusal to take a definitive stand protecting all unborn children to the Whig Party’s refusal to oppose slavery – a dodge that led to its implosion and the birth of the Republican Party.
The Constitution Party platform opposes abortion under all circumstances.
The former Alaska governor has in the past bypassed a liberal Republican in favor of a more conservative, third party challenger. In 2009, Palin endorsed Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over pro-choice Republican Dede Scozzafava for a congressional race in New York.
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Democratic operatives also claimed Palin supported Pat Buchanan‘s third party presidential candidacy in 2000, because she wore a Buchanan button as she welcomed him during a visit to Wasilla. In fact, she served on Steve Forbes’ campaign that year.
However, in 1995 and 2000 Palin’s husband, Todd, registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which has endorsed the Constitution Party presidential candidate since 1996.
Palin is not alone in her ominous message to the Republican elite. Phyllis Schlafly said House Speaker John Boehner was “making a mistake” when he said “I’ve never read” a party platform, then specifically noted his exceptions to protecting some classes of the unborn. “It’s a very grassroots document that I think the politicians ought to listen to,” she said.
A number of other Republicans - including former Congressman Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes, and U.S. Senator Bob Smith - have cast their lots with the Constitution Party since 2000, only to leave shortly afterwards. The party’s 2012 presidential candidate is former Republican Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia.
Palin, the Republican party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee, was not publicly invited to speak at the Republican National Convention. John McCain will address the convention tonight.
They used to say that the best place for a union was the parking lot, meaning most management would rather cave a bit with wages, benefits and conditions just to keep a union out.
The GOPe reminds me of that Peter Principle driven management I used to see in the corporate world.
Show them the third party threat and it's likely they will cave a bit on their statist goals and desires in the conservative direction just to keep conservatives at a safe distance and take the third party threat off the table.
>>CONSERVATIVES must vote for candidates that
spout CONSERVATIVE ISSUES in each election.<<
CONSERVATIVES must vote for candidates that
LIVE CONSERVATIVE ISSUES in each election.
There, fixed it. Spouting Conservative ideas is what RINOs do best - “Vote for me and I’ll cut taxes, etc.” - and then fail to do.
“...it is in the best interests of every single voter in this country to get a demonstrated, anti-American loser OUT OF THE WH!!”
I’m not a fan of Mitt either.
The Canadian Progressive Conservative party was split in two by the creation of the more right-wing "Reform Party" and ended up with 13 years of leftist Liberal rule. It was only when the current Prime Minister, Steven Harper, finally put them back together again that tipped the balance in their favor in 2006.
Those of you in favor of a third party, just exactly what percentage of the GOP do you imagine us taking in the beginning? Remember Ross Perot in the 1992 election? [Clinton (43%), Bush (38%), and Perot (19%)]. In 2016, how do you see the split....Dems/Romney/TeaParty? To create a third party against an incumbent GOP term would be madness, unless Romney totally screws it up. We will be up against pure hate if the savage spending cuts that are necessary are executed. Add in deficit reduction and entitlement trimming and the resulting riots and strikes and 2016 becomes a nightmare for even a "joint" GOP.
Personally, I'm not willing to give the Dems ANY more breathing space than they already have. As I said, I prefer a slow, but sure, takeover. Tea Party, now and forever! Congressmen and Senators....let's move 'em in!
We can't afford to revisit that kind of disastrous and embarrassing fiasco again. And that is what it would be.
We all had favorite choices over and above Romney... West, Cain, Gingerich, Bachman, Santorum, etc. That was then this is now.
It is what it is.
“....I think we need to slowly infiltrate and take over, rather than split.”
Exactly what I was advocating eight years ago.
RINO’s are IMO every bit the Leftist’s the Lefties are. They are a spinoff IMO, and they now control the GOP. Proven day before yesterday IMO.
Salvaging the GOP, the Republican Party is now beyond a possibility.
You are also advocating that which they did to gain what they have in the GOP. They are sitting, waiting for you, and yours to try to do the same thing. That is what they understand, and they are practiced at it. It’s why the power grab two days ago.
I’m afraid the third party is the only way to go for 2016. There is no way to advocate such a move for this election. That would be political suicide, therefore we must work with what we have, elect that which will get Obama, and the Democrats the “H” out of the reins of power, and as many a strong Conservative voice to represent our will in Congress as we can get.
Meanwhile we work on 2016, with a fresh start.
Yes, make sure you have your big boy pants on as the Nelson Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party continues to drift further and further to the left, playing the "dare ya" game with conservatives. "I dare ya to not vote for the even bigger liberal we shove at ya!". When after years and years of going to the left crossing that line again and again, you finally find yourself falling off that diving board, you'll need those big boy pants!
Amen!! So very True...
lets unite to defeat ZERO!!
I remember that very well. That was a consequence of Bush's actions while in office. I was an obedient little GOP voter those days and I've watched them drift farther and farther left every election and then dare me to not vote for them. I now regret those votes for liberal Republicans. I know now that I've been an enabler.
I'm through.
My rule from this day forward with what days I have remaining on this Earth will be to vote only for politicians who will champion liberty. I will never again vote for compassionate collectivism, social justice, or whatever it's being called today in the name of party loyalty.
My vote now has to be earned.
I think, we're in the spot we're in, largely, because of Billy Boy and his Tuna!
Thanks Billy Boy and Ross!!
America may NEED to have their noses rubbed in “IT”... ONE MORE TIME...
The republicans chose a candidate very much like Juan McLaim.. and Veep like Palin..
The McLaimiacs became Romneyacs...
Much of the republican party is delusional..
Two words.. “Good hair”.. Romney has good hair..
At least 10 million illegal alien voters could care less about his hair..
Thats a lot of votes...
Amen!
Read up on the Whig party.
Bookmarked.
don’t think the GOP can be saved at this point. With the rules changes working from within is not going to be allowed. We do have to get Obama out of office this year. That being said some a substantial number of conservatives in the GOP like Demint, R. Paul, Palin, Ryan etc... are going to have to bolt all at once in a grand exodus and have a conservative party convention and plan on running candidates in 50 states for all levels of government and it won’t be easy but nothing worth having ever is.
“I think, we’re in the spot we’re in, largely, because of Billy Boy and his Tuna!”
I agree with you, and really don’t want to get into a fight with a fellow traveler on the right. The main difference I see between you and me is where the blame for the ‘92 election lies. You say it’s with the winner (with an assist from Perot), but I say it belongs with the loser who squandered a Post-Gulf War 90% approval rating by running to the left and playing footsie with the collectivists in D.C. The only reason Bush (the good and decent man that he is) didn’t win that election by 20 points even with Ross nipping at his heels is that he abandoned the conservative principles of his former boss in the name of “compassion.” It was Reagan’s principles that swept Bush to victory in ‘88 (I myself was voting for Reagan’s third term), only to be betrayed. That created the opening that even a little hack like Perot could exploit.
Right.
And don’t forget, Bush Sr. allowed the MSM to beat up on Quale.
THAT was a mistake.
“I remember how Ross Perot handed the Presidential election to Bill Clinton.”
I remember that very well. That was a consequence of Bush's actions while in office. I was an obedient little GOP voter those days and I've watched them drift farther and farther left every election and then dare me to not vote for them. I now regret those votes for liberal Republicans. I know now that I've been an enabler.
I'm through.
My rule from this day forward with what days I have remaining on this Earth will be to vote only for politicians who will champion liberty. I will never again vote for compassionate collectivism, social justice, or whatever it's being called today in the name of party loyalty.
My vote now has to be earned.
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