Posted on 04/08/2009 7:27:54 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning Republicans and Democrats of a possible third-party mutiny in 2012 because of all the socialism being advanced by the White House and Congress.
Who's he kidding? The major political parties have a death grip on the electoral process, but for insurance, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. John Larson, D-1st District (Ct), have submitted bills to create a full-blown, taxpayer-funded, campaign-finance machine created for and controlled by the incumbents.
Their proposals in principle are identical to the one Connecticut lawmakers enacted that has made it toughest on third-party candidates to qualify for campaign grants.
So there will be no mutiny because incumbents refuse to share their bounty.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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It’s easier to change the establishment from the inside, versus the outside. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t difficult, however.
If there is to be an effective uprising, my guess is that it will come from within the GOP. Certainly there is a struggle for control of the Republican Party — but, our best hope is winning that struggle.
Third Party candidates simply won’t be taken seriously enough. They may play spoiler — but I doubt they’re contenders.
SnakeDoc
BHO & the Dems will do everything they can to promote a third party bid from the right. This will sap the strength of any potential opposition and cement BHO’s re-election.
BHO & the Dems will do everything they can to promote a third party bid from the right. This will sap the strength of any potential opposition and cement BHO’s re-election.
“a possible third-party mutiny in 2012”
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could be the best thing ever happens!
I’d love to see a viable 3rd party emerge as well, but I feel it has to start at the local level and build a solid foundation first. Perot, Nader, Barr, etc...have been joke campaigns, with no realistic shot at even making a marginal splash in the polls.
Imagine a new conservative party that could get a dozen or so House seats and 2-3 in the Senate. Certainly not enough to legislate independently, but more than enough to exert pressure on the Republicans to toe the line, and the party will grow and grow from there.
This trend will lead (or already has led) directly to a socialist government without the resources or public mindshare to carry out most of its grand schemes. It may finally end when a substantial body of younger voters finally begin to see the socialists instead of the irrelevant GOP as the "old dudes who caused the problems" - probably ten or twelve years from now.
Or the GOP could do something really insane and run with conservatives.
“Or the GOP could do something really insane and run with conservatives.”
Nah. That would never enter their teeny little brains. They read the mainstream media and know that conservatives are evil, nasty, racist people whom they would never want to be associated with.
Right there. The major problem is a third party sucks votes from the Republican party since both parties relies on conservative issues. The Republican party needs a clean sweep of RINO's and needs to establish a clear and clean "contract for America" attitude and it might just crack a little of the huge King Obama machine.
Conservative districts may well get a "Conservative Party," going, and even slip in a candidate or two. But conservatives will never get in on the RINO-DEMO incumbent action, i.e., never be able to bring home the bacon to their constituents (as Crook Murtha and Senile KKK Krook Byrd consistently do, which gets them re-elected). Neither will they be present in sufficient number to even slow down the statist juggernaut.
The inherent weakness in Conservatism is that it requires economically stable, politically literate, and somewhat sophisticated voters. This political commodity, upon which good government of a republic depends, is in ever-diminishing supply. As present senior generations die off, and the new Latino demographic component approaches 100 million, the republic as you know it will change into something else over the rest of this century.
That's the "Change" BHO, Jr. is talking about. "Constitution," you say? Hmmm?
If the GOP thinks they can run on fear of Obama, they may as well give up now because they’ve already lost.
Not to sound conspiratorial but it sure looks to me like they don’t intend to win again. Where are the big names demanding real investigations of ACORN? Where are the big names fighting the funding or ACORN while cutting military?
We're also strapped w/ parasitic citizens that believe they are owed other peoples money.
Its depressing and its also similar to what destroyed the Roman Republic.
I can’t go against Gingrich because he is a good solid conservative! His talk of a GOP split is scary and smacks of something easier than getting down to the hard work of fixing what is wrong. There is no doubt that the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are in danger...and that is what is important.
The GOP stuck us with Obama and the rats with their deliberate denigration of conservative candidates.
I now have a socialist (not to mention criminal) congressman because the GOP withdrew party money late in his campaign. They called him a lost cause and he ended up losing by a whole 2%. They were never happy with him anyway because he defeated one of their RINOs for the seat in the first place.
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