Posted on 10/15/2013 8:16:05 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
"Do the Republican and Democratic parties do an adequate job of representing the American people, or do they do such a poor job that a third major party is required?"
A record 60% of Americans now yearn for a third major party, according to Gallup. Independents, unsurprisingly, are most likely to favor a third party, but a majority of self-described Republicans say yes, too. But what do they mean by that "yes"?
(snip) But here's a caution about third parties in American history: They are much more likely to arise on the fringes of the political system, not the center. ......
(snip) Pragmatists want to change the GOP so that it can win elections and govern effectively. Tea party Republicans prefer to express their principles regardless of consequences, which is why the Pew survey in September found that 71% of them favored a government shutdown even though nearly 40% of them expected that shutdown to have a "major" impact on the economy. .....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yes, GOPe aks the Stupid Party, take advice from David Frum. See how that works for ya, dumbazzes...
/johnny
Smoke it while you can Dave. We’re just getting started.
A Tea Party exit is a DEATH SENTENCE for the GOP.
I love it when demtards and rino’s offer their help to us, and make recommendations on what we should do to defeat them.
I never would have known how bad the TEA party is without them.
And they only have our best interests in mind...
THANKS!
We want the David Frums of the world to depart our conservative party.
They are really getting scared of the Tea Party the closer we get to 2014. The more articles I read about how unpopular they are, and how they are blocking everything, the more I am convinced the opposite is true..
What Frum and other dumb-dumbs refuse to get is that their never-ending quest to ‘win elections and govern effectively’ is not winning elections and is destroying the country. To the DC class, ‘governing effectively’ is McCain-world for the Republicans buying into 60% of the Democratic plan and signing off on it in a civilized manner. That is successful governing to the political class...Not upsetting the DC media. Not being concerned about the direction of the country or the well-being of people, or responding to the wishes of their voters.
No thanks.
Ah, the Frumtard speaks!
He’d love a pure one party system of complete and total Dem rule it seems.
All this “not going along to get along” makes him itch I guess.
He sees complete and total surrender to the liberal point of view as “pragmatic”, he forgets that surrendering to the Dems in the past two presidential elections and nominating a left leaning candidate has not worked.
As if they’ll suddenly love Republicans if the Tea Party leaves.
Look at how they treated Romney and McCain when they were the nominees, they might as well have been tea-partiers to them.
And don’t think if Christie is the nominee, they won’t treat him exactly the same.
Yeah, just as Reagan’s exit from office was a blessing, so they could go back to losing again.
Oh I see...it is more important to ‘win’ the election than to stand up and be counted for what you believe in..I get it, But NO Thank You. I am a stand up for what you believe in person. Win or Not.
A new party - an American Party - is absolutely necessary if the US is not to continue devolving into a soviet style mullahcracy.
It may be too late already.
He seems to forget that the GOP began as a third party. It was a breakaway faction of the Whigs.
Dear Mr. Frum:
See Congressional election, 2010.
Sincerely,
ReaganUberAlles
Christie is the preferred candidate of the Main Stream Media. They can't wait for him to get the nomination, and then they'll turn on him relentlessly.
I can only imagine Mika doing a 180, as she focuses on his weight, i.e. "we can't have an obese man in the White House, what kind of message would that send to the world?"
Hey David, the Tea Party splitting from you moderates would be a blessing for us, the end of the GOP as a viable political party, and it gives an opportunity for a new political movement to expand freely and openly with the American people.
PS (To Mr. Frum) Tea Party will add to its ranks in November 2014. We are not going away.
Yep.
That's exactly what happened in Canada- the Progressive Conservative party split and a new party took over the conservative movement. The downside is that the process took 15 years in opposition.
That’s the way the GOPe likes it....All the perks, none of the responsibility.
David Frump who?
A Tea Party exit is a DEATH SENTENCE for the GOP.
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As Rush Limbaugh says, the Left always tells you what they fear. The “Tea Party” portion of the Republican party is rapidly growing and with the 2014 election they may well have the numbers to take control/leadership of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. That, combined with a Republican majority (buttressed by more newly elected conservative Republican Senators) in the Senate after the 2014 election, is giving the ruling elite nightmares. And they are doing everything possible to prevent this from happening. Folks, let’s not help them. We are rapidly approaching the time when we reclaim the Republican party. Don’t let the progressives distract you from working toward this goal.
Hey David, the Tea Party splitting from you moderates would be a blessing for us, the end of the GOP as a viable political party, and it gives an opportunity for a new political movement to expand freely and openly with the American people.
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IMHO you are doing the work of the progressive Democrats, whether you know it or not.
The Tea Party has a remedy, the GOP and the Rats want to keep digging.
Lord Haw Haw speaketh.
Nothing a second Reagan Revolution couldn’t cure. Keep the party, kick to the curb those who are RINOs and Dem sympathizers. “Bold colors, no pastels!”
Onward to victory!
Why? So the GOP can capitulate to obama’s every whim? Why have two parties? Obama is down to 37% approval right now. Why should we give him what he wants and be a part of the destruction of our healthcare system and peoples’ personal finances? Frum is such a loser
And life as a permanent minority party would be just peachy for Frum and the GOP. The Tea Party might not enjoy the liberation of becoming another minor, third party. The better course of action is for the GOP to become the party of the Tea Party and Ted Cruz in the same way it was once the party of Lincoln.
David, David, David - - - - .
The TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY citizens are the former SILENT MAJORITY citizens in terms of core values, attitudes, and lack of tolerance for “Leftstream” Media proponents like you.
a.k.a. David Frum d' Rear.
Tea Party goes, and the GOP dies with it.
Mr. Frum doing his best to encourage the GOP to become a dying, shrinking, irrelevant fringe party.
The Tea Party, in their eyes is an unsightly mob, a rabble of ill-educated and uninformed boobs who lack the intelligence and sophistication to understand how the world really works. To people like Frum, only Harvard-educated and well-bred sophisticates with refined Manhattan tastes are suited for leadership roles.
Why on earth should Republicans wrap their arms around Duck Dynasty when they can have "Bush Dynasty" instead? And they won't even have to send their Armani suits to the dry cleaners, afterward.
T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII lives on! Tally ho! Brie and chablis for all!
I never understood why this Canadian liberal thinks he knows anything about the GOP.
Bump
The GOP is going to leave before the Tea Party. At the rate the GOP-e is a screwing things up they won’t have to worry about 2014.The conservatives will be staying home..
You got it, buddy!
Next time the homosexuals like Frum get another RINO through the Primary you can count us OUT. Go get you Independents and all those Latinos.
Bwahahahaha.... what a loser.
then we’ll have the democrats, the democrats-in-training, and the TEA party.
What a douche. He doesn’t understand he is a member of the 1850 Whigs looking at a brand new party full of energized VICTORS.
Frum is PMSNBC's idea of a “conservative.”
That seems to be the way things are headed.
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