Sarah Palin and a new American Party

"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."

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.

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.

I like the name Freedom Party. So do you think it would be posible to have a Freedom Party in some states where people are more serious about a Constitutional Republic while other states may opt to keep the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. Would regional parties be a good idea?

We can’t forget the Reagan Democrats and the people who voted for Ross Perot. There are many people in the Democrat voting states who would respond to a strong message about protecting our economy and American jobs.

There should be a national convention of the Freedom Party. It doesn’t have to have a lot of hoopla in the begining but at first the founders of the party could put together a declaration of all the things that it believes—a party platform. Rush Limbaugh said that the GOP does not have an idealogy. He is right, the GOP has been a money making deal just like the Democrats, both parties use a lot of rhetoric and double talk to get their followers all worked up. We need a group of people like the Founders who are true to their country and actually believe in something.

We can split the Democrats vote by appealing to the Reagan Democrats who have been cast aside since George Bush I. Working class and middle income hard working people want to be patriotic—they all have pictures of their dads and granddads in their World War II and Korean War uniforms. America needs to be united again. We need to bring people together under patriotism and jobs.

Jobs have been ignored as a voting issue. Clinton sold out the American worker with the NAFTA act. American workers watch as their jobs go away to China and other jobs go to illegal alien workers. We need someone with a heart for the American worker who will realign the parties. Then the Democrats and the Republicans who have both thrown American workers under the bus will be dumped by millions of voters. People are sick and tired of the same old phonies in BOTH parties. They want something that has the ring truth to it. JOBS JOBS JOBS !!

We have to steal voters from the Democrat Party— those traditional Democrats who want a strong economy, jobs, no unnecessary foreign adventures, no discrimination against Whites of males, sane traditional values, in other words, those Democrats who have been taken for granted and cast aside by the liberal Democrat establishment that has been in control for forty years.

Thanks for trying, but unfortunately nobody seems to care if a quote is fake.

The biggest indicator is the wording. I’ve read most of what Tocqueville wrote, and that just isn’t the way he wrote.

Uhh, not exactly. The first settlers were in VA, not Plymouth. And the VA settlement had little specifically Christian about it. They were out to make money.

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