I love the idea of a Third Party. If you need any help, please let me know. I would be happy to lend my considerable organizing skills and financial resources.
Sincerely,
Barry Obama
PS: I can think of nothing else which would help keep my party in power for decades to come.
....dang, you had me going there for a second......LOL
My thoughts are similar. Think about the name “Republican” and strip away the negative connotation it now has with most of us. A party favoring a Republic, a nation of law (the Constitution), not on majority rule (Democracy; Democrats).
So the problem isn’t the name of the party or what it should stand for based on its name. The problem is it’s been overrun with people who don’t value the Constitution and the limited government principles contained therein. We need to work within the party to make the Republican party stand for what it should literally - a free Republic.
I would be good with ridding the GOP of rinos. They could get together with the least crazy Rats and form the moderate third path.
“PS: I can think of nothing else which would help keep my party in power for decades to come.”
The Democrats have used the concept of “fusion” parties. The Communist party runs or threatens to run a candidate against the Democrat. The Dems know the Communists are x% of their vote in any district. Quite often the uber-Left (Commies) are the winning few votes. So, the Democrat adopts the positions of the Communist candidate; pro-abortion, free-stuff, Obamacare, taxing the rich, etc. etc. The Communists then either drop out or signal the membership with (dog whistle) “code” meaning they’re to vote for the Democrat. (This is why the Left is always accusing conservatives of dog whistles and code; they use them.)
We could use the same tactic as the conservative right are a much higher percentage of the Republican vote than the Lunatic Left are of the Democratic vote. Our Dog Whistle would be Sarah Palin coming out on a commercial saying, “Okay, I’ve worked a deal with x and we can all vote for him now.”