The Republicans blew a once-in-a-century chance...they spent like Democrats and ruled like Democrats-lite. Had they ruled like true conservatives...well, who knows. I know they’ve alienated strict-constructionist conservatives like myself. I’ll not hold my nose again, give me a conservative to vote for or don’t waste my time. RINO’s just give conservatives a bad name.
The problem is these guys say they are trying to represent an entire 42% of the public, and then they go off and talk about something that much of the 42% probably doesn’t care much about. I want to control an entire third party myself, but I won’t try to stop globalization as my priority.
But I would prefer to control the Republican Party myself.
My friends and I are working on that. :-)
Ten years from now, I expect to be a welcome guest in the White House of an improved Republican Party.
There is room for a third party in the US however. That long eared rabbit guy what’s his name...Ross Perot...got about 20% of the vote in 1993 while acting obnoxious. A less eccentric candidate, backed with his money, might have won back then, if the electoral college would have allowed it.
It would only take $1Billion to run a third party properly. You would have to control a few TV channels and newspapers...but the Internet may soon make it so anyone can start an Internet TV station.
The thing is, the weirdo billionaires that are out there now don’t have much imagination and are clearly not being asked to sustain new political movements or new directions for the current parties. Much of the current Republican agenda is pushed via the money of Richard Mellon Scaith of Pittsburgh (the guy who pushed the Monica Lewinsky story as if a conservative man would stay true to Hillary). Rupert Murdoch is well known to be playing up to Hillary Clinton...meaning that Fox News ultimately doesn’t really mean it: they play softball.
And, of course, we all know that left winger Ted Turner isn’t going to question the radical left wingers on any bizarre topic they come up with.