Posted on 07/23/2013 9:33:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Alexis d’ Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
The inspiration for this article occurred while reading "What about a third party candidate" by Rachel Lynn Robinson on Nolan Chart, www.nolanchart.com. Ms. Robinson, a Libertarian, asks: "Is it reasonable to elect a third party candidate simply based on their stance on a few key items?"
Ms. Robinson writes a good article, and offers an alternative to a third party, the redesign of the GOP. She asks, how could we win a national election with a new party, if we don't have the strength to re-invent the Republican Party? So in the end her solution is infighting within the GOP. Unfortunately, we have been doing that since Ronald Reagan, and it has resulted in chaos in America and the election and re-election of a neophyte lightweight Barack Obama.
First, let's make clear we don't need a new third party, we need a new second party. Difference? What faces the United States is not about one or two, or three issues where we are headed in the wrong direction. This is not about dissatisfaction by groups of single issue voters. This is about what the United States is, how it will conduct itself in the Post-Cold War World, and whether it has the heart to sustain the most successful national model in history!
America is in chaos. It starts with God. It starts with the rise of secular humanism and the removal of God from the center of our nation. This process started before the American Civil War, but clearly accelerated in the 1950's to today. Any new national party wanting to offer America salvation as a nation must start with inviting God into the Big Tent. If the tent ain't big enough for God, the rest is a waste of time.
Christianity was the foundation of colonies, it was their inspiration, it was what brought the first settlers to America. The "Mayflower Compact," designed and accepted on the Mayflower before the 102 settlers set foot on America's coast is seen by historians as the seed for what became the American model of governance. And in that compact God sits majestically. There is no subtlety about His presence in that document. Even today's political correct morons could not convice you that God is only referred to. No, He is there in all His glory to commence the creation of the nation we live in today.
The new American Party must humble itself before God. The people of America must NOT make the mistakes of Israel and other nations. It is time to bow, time to repent as a nation. It is time to ask God for His "guidance and protection" as the people of the South did in their 1861 Constitution. The new American Party must accept Christianity as it's compass, it must provide the direction for domestic and foreign policy or everything else attempted by America will result in the same ends as all other nations.
Yet, there is much more the new American Party must do. It must re-assess the modern world and our nation's place in it.
America must re-acquaint itself with the concept of republic. The Constitution was not an "enabling" document. It was a protecting document. The Constitution was an attempt to design a central government limited, or restrained, to only those things a central government must do. The original concept was to allow each of the states to retain as much control of its domestic development as possible. This concept allowed for both diversity and experimentation, while allowing states to retain much of their own identity and sovereignty This should be the second foundation of the American party.
The third foundation should be nationalism, and a new national economic self-sufficiency. America must retake its own markets. This does require policies and action at the central government level, as stimulus to American business entrepreneurship, industrial ingenuity and creativity and the American work ethic. It requires domestic oil and gas exploration, development production, something Governor Palin is quite familiar with. Liz Cheney recently articulated the very concept of development of our own energy reserves. By doing this, we could separate ourselves from the world market, employ millions of our own people in good paying jobs and create the economic foundation for a renaissance in U.S. industry and manufacturing.
Trade should be used as a tool, not as a give away principle that has reduced America to third world status.
And lastly, we must find our place in the world.
We are no longer the leader of the Free World. That battle has subsided for a time. No we are just one of more than two hundred nations trying to make our way. Our foreign policy must not only meet our national security needs, and our hopes and aspirations but it must be within our means.
I am not a Liz Cheney supporter (yet). To be one, I would have to know where she stands on question of morality. Her father disappointed me with his embrace of homosexuality. This violates Christianity, the sanctity of God and His natural law. But Liz Cheney is absolutely right about the economic potential of the United States. We could enter a new era of prosperity were this nation's policies shifted towards self-sufficiency.
A new second party, the American Party is the answer, it is the political locale where our nation can be reborn unto itself. No, this can't happen in the Republican Party. It's corruption is too widespread, it's infestation by special interests, American and non-American, too deep. And there is a "royalty" within the Republican Party that defies the basic concept of America, that all men are created equal. No, we need an American Party and Sara Palin bests reflects that party.
‘He must first learn to spell her name:
SARAH PALIN!’
Sarah-with-an-H - the breath of God . . .
May I suggest my fellow Freepers watch show 120 at angelandthewiz on YouTube: A Message To The GOP......you might hear things you agree with..
Of course a third party wouldn’t win. That would take 20 years, if ever.
But the current “2nd party” ways are guarenteed to lose, as they have for 100 years.
The existing conservative writers and radio hosts have an interest in keeping the status quo, as they are doing quite well now under this losing arrangement, complaining about the GOP and favoring “change from within”.
Do you folks not understand what a Marxist oligarchy is??
Given what we learned from the last election cycle and the absolute corruption that exists in the Machine of Democrat/Marxist strongholds - why do you folks continue to delude yourselves into believing VOTING is going to change anything??
Do you people honestly think a rigged, shell-game of an electoral system run and controlled by the MarxoFascists and the GOP Ruling Class is going to do anything but declare their own ‘candidates’ winners via clever manipulations like we saw in Ohio and other places??
Do you folks truly not know what time it is?
There is NO FIXING or STOPPING this juggernaut of tyranny engulfing us - especially from within the system they have corrupted. They do not respect the rule of law. They demonstrate that to us DAILY.
Third parties aren’t going to put the Oligarchs out to pasture. Neither will elections. Our votes will not even be counted. They will be manufactured, manipulated, stolen, misplaced, and engineered to ensure the Ruling Class will always ‘win’.
Cook County went national. Get that through your heads.
We keep getting stuck on stupid - voting the ‘lesser of two evils’ as some kind of salvation for the tyranny we have earned. It’s foolhardy to assume the Dictatorship is going to honor the voice of the people or the rule of law via an honest election. Look around. Understand the signs. What you knew of America is GONE - those in power LOATHE the people, while the people fear those in power.
To hold onto what is left of our liberties and the Republic - is going to require we think outside the boxes they have corrupted and we have already exhausted.
Well, INVAR, you may be on to something. Let’s see what happens. Don’t have a choice, right? Let’s buy root beer and good potato salad.
The GOP does posture a lot with speechmaking.
Boehner made noises about “jobs” yesterday because no doubt the focus group polling said he could use those words.
But that does suddenly made Boehner a conservative.
Not by a longshot.....
“To hell with them!”
DITTO!!!
You hit the nail on the head my friend. Honest, God-fearing Americans need to ask themselves the question, "what price am I willing to pay to see that God fearing men and women once again take charge of America?"
It will probably take another civil war, but in this instance, that civil war will not be between two sides of an ideological issue, but also between races, different social classes, and religious lines. And at this point, it's a toss up as to who would win in the end, and if the America we know would survive at all.
And if you dare challenge that than you must be 100% Evil!
Because if we don't vote for the Republicans than the Democrats will win and we will get Amnesty, Deathcare, Gay Marriage, Pedophilia Legalization....
Oh Wait, the Republicans are going along to get along with those issues too.
You still better vote for the GOP though!
So very true.
I think a Freedom Party, as a party-within-a-party (in the beginning) would be organized as a threat to the GOPe internally first. It would need to build up its fundraising, recruiting and other arms and run candidates in GOP primaries.
Then when/if the GOPe continues their crap we could actually go third party as an entire organized faction.
Perot ran twice as a third party apparently to help Bill Clinton, who couldn’t get a majority of the popular vote either time.
Perot ran twice as a third party apparently to help Bill Clinton, who couldn’t get a majority of the popular vote either time.
IF a 3rd party could win, it would have to understand and know without a doubt that God could supernaturally intercede and allow a win even though all odds were against this happening.
IF a 3rd party could win, it would have to have the dedicated support and prayer of a large population of "real" Christians who will donate, support and vote! This group would not need to be a majority, as God could overcome that problem.
IF a 3rd party could win, it would have to be unwavering in Biblical morality and unabashedly honest in giving all glory for achievements to God and asking for this blessing in the name of Jesus.
I am beginning to think that perhaps this is our ONLY hope to save America.
The GOP has weakened its pro-life position anyway.
They tout 20 weeks after saying in the past (Ronald Reagan)
there should be no abortion from conception with rape, incest or life of the mother exceptions.
We do need a second party in this country
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Great line.
I am sure its been said hundreds of thousands of times
Perfect response that captures the problem in DC.
I don’t know.
Looking at what has happened to America’s standing in the world, I think Perot had the right position, actually.
I think we elected the wrong guy.
We needed to vote for Perot.
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