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Comments?

[Cicero]

I’ve been saying this for quite a long time. Either the Republicans change their ways, or they will die like the Whigs.

Well, now I’m inclined to say that the GOP has gone way past the point where the Whigs died. The question is now not whether the Republicans need to be replaced, but whether the country has enough good people willing to WORK TOGETHER to replace them. Can we get the fiscal conservatives, the libertarians, the moral conservatives, the social conservatives, and so on—usually seen as at least three distinct groups—to work together?

I really don’t know. It would take someone as strong and reliable and resolutely principled as Sarah Palin to pull it all together, but I’m not sure if the media and the “conservative” Establishment will ever permit it. Or whether enough decent people remain who can see through the lies of the press and the GOPe, propping up the Democrat lies.

As I said last time around, I don’t see anyone but Sarah who is strong enough to pull us out of this mess. But people got distracted by Newt Gingrich—who talks a great game but has a lot of warts and betrayals at this point, and who stayed in just long enough to eliminate Rick Santorum who was running ahead of him and give it to Mitt Romney—who in turn promptly gave it back to Obama.

So, yes, I think the GOP is defunct. But that doesn’t mean it will go away, unless conservatives somehow can get together and back a really serious, capable, and totally reliable candidate. We need someone of the stature of Churchill or Lincoln (like him or not). Sarah’s the only one in sight. But we need to get together, and I’m not sure how that can be done. But it needs to be done before the GOPe once again uses its inside position to manipulate the primaries and eliminate anyone but their own chosen candidates.

[EternalVigilance]

America's Party"We're partisans only for America's founding principles."

[stockpirate]

As God is my witness, if Sarah starts a third party “I am there”!

[Sherman Logan]

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.

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.