Go ahead, and choose from any of the 60 or 70 “third parties” that are out there. Meanwhile, I’ll join Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin in recapturing the Republican party.
Time For A New Conservative Party!
Have you asked Scott Walker? He defeated union thugs three times and just turned a budget surplus in Wisconsin with a third party, ER, Republican majority in the House and Senate.
Isn’t there already a “conservative party” we can build on?
You do not want to win.
Nobody who supports a third Party is interested in winning.
You are only interested in your ego.
You have good, Conservative Republicans sticking their necks out for you, and do you have THEIR backs?
NO! You are actually a traitor to the Conservative cause by spending so much time trying to take down the GOP, rather than supporting the Conservative Republicans who are trying to do the right thing.
The muslim commies took over the Dem party, we can take the Repub party away from the Dem-lite RINOs.
I’m more than open to it. Ronald Reagan was the watershed figure that made me a solid and lifelong Republican voter/supporter, but when the cowardly and loathesome GOP-E joined in with the northeastern lib media to trash and backstab Palin, I became totally untethered from the Republican Party. Pushing amnesty and nominating Romney, a northeastern liberal who facilitated fag-marriage, was the last straw.
The GOP did not get my vote in 2012 because of this. Romney and Ryan and the whole GOP-E can go burn in hell!
I kind of like the Tea Party concept which I don’t really view as a party, but as a conglomeration of individuals with similar conservative ideas that nonetheless coalesce as though they were an actual organization. But for the Tea Party Patriots and such that reflect professional lobbying groups, I like to say that “I’m a Tea Party advocate”, rather than claiming its membership.
Oddly enough, the only third party that has ever substantially won anything is the Tea Party, because they are the only group that has used the only strategy that *can* succeed.
Most third parties just run a presidential candidate. Even if they were to win, which they can’t, they have no supporters in Washington and would be made to look so horrible that they might as well resign.
A far more effective way for a third party is to run from the bottom up, getting congressmen and eventually senators, until they are powerful enough to get “marginal” control in the house and eventually the senate.
But the most effective way is what the Tea Party has done, and it is hugely successful. They already have a lot of support in the Republican party, so they are trying to earn a majority and eventually take over the leadership.
And they are well on the way to doing so.
Right now, if they were a separate party, they would have perhaps 75 or more congressmen, and half a dozen senators. They have reached a point where the leadership knows that every time it acts in opposition to them, some leaders are going to be replaced in the next primaries.
Assuming the Tea Party keeps up the momentum, in the next election, the Republicans will control both the house and the senate, and the RINOs, especially in the senate, will find themselves significantly marginalized. Not completely gone, but not able to stab the conservatives in the back anymore.
The house leadership is unlikely to make it through another term as the leadership. And once conservatives control the leadership, they are going to stay in control.
Then the election after that, once the remaining RINOs, if any, are deposed, there is going to be fireworks, with the first really conservative president in over a hundred years.
So, the bottom line is a third party is for Democrats. Let them waste time and resources and maybe split their party. The Tea Party is so close to victory in the Republican party that they can taste it.
There is one way for a third party to be viable. We need to have a top 2 primary runoff system. I’d be more happy with the GOP if we had a top 2 primary runoff for selecting candidates for all elected offices. The current system favors the big money big establishment candidates which doesn’t serve us.
No.
The problem isn’t the party. The problem is that Washington has been turned into an aristocracy, with a king that changes every 8 years, and a House of Lords (Congress) that basically has lifetime tenure.
I guess some don’t remember the shellacking that Conservatives got when Ross Perot’s candidacy split the Conservative vote when he ran against Bill Clinton. I guess some are wanting another Democrat for president in 2016 because they want to see the vote split again.
Go ahead, organize whatever sort of Mongolian Cluster F**k you like and you'll soon find that prima donnas who always have a reason not to bother with political trench fighting and taking control of the Republican Party are almost all far too lazy to bother with your new MCF party either.
Ross Perot handed Bill Clinton the Presidency on a silver platter and delayed fuse bombs that SOB planted are a large part of our current problems. That was the great result we got from the last temper tantrum Third Party garbage.
I guess some people are just so dense that they don't know, "Nothing difficult is ever easy".
The only thing a third party will do is provide the people who don't and won't lift a finger with new excuses.
Everyone has said what needs to be said - no to a third party... yes to getting a backbone, digging deep into our convictions and choosing morality at the expense of all else.
Very few if any thought on Free Republic about dumping a dead party with no power.
They are still waiting for a knight in shining armor to lead the GOP.
They are still riding the merry-go-round....too afraid to jump off.