spoil what? the GOP hasn't done anything good for us for years. It's already spoiled. It so spoiled it stinks! The GOP has thrown us all under the bus. We need to start over from scratch. The GOP and the RATS are one and the same. They're just pretending they have differences. Just look at the number of RINO's. It's growing not shrinking. Staying in bed with the GOP is a bad idea. We have no choice but to take a chance. It may be our last chance. We have nothing to lose anymore. Even if a third party doesn't win, (and it won't) it may do better than Perot did. And cause some on the hill to squirm and worry about their future viability. I'm going for it because we're getting nowhere with the GOP. Well i take that back, we're getting somewhere. The same somewhere the RATS are going.
>>> They may play spoiler — but I doubt they’re contenders.
>> spoil what? the GOP hasn’t done anything good for us for years. It’s already spoiled.
Good grief. Use of the word “spoiler” wasn’t a commentary on the GOP — it was a sports metaphor. You’ve never heard the term “playing spoiler”? It occurs when a team that is out of contention (usually the Cubs) defeats a contender in a game or two that makes no difference to the outcome of their season, but spoils the playoff hopes of the contender.
Thus, if a third party gets involved — they won’t win, but they may still affect the outcome. I didn’t even say precisely whom they would spoil it for — I simply said that the best a 3rd party can hope for is interference, not contention. Hardly a groundbreaking prediction (in fact, I believe it was EXACTLY the same prediction you made).
>> We need to start over from scratch.
Granted. I see no reason we cannot start over from within the GOP. Marginalizing conservatism will not help our situation. It may make conservatives feel better that their party is purely conservative ... but I see no particular honor in losing.
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‘the GOP hasn’t done anything good for us for years.”
That’s demented and wrong. Here in Texas, a GOP majority has helped us in a number of ways. Not much good has happened since 2006 at the national level, but that is because WE HAVE HAD A DEMOCRAT CONGRESS SINCE 2006 ELECTIONS.
“We have nothing to lose anymore.”
That’s beyond stupid. That’s stupid’s dumber cousin.
My children have a risk of growing up in a country that is as bankrupt as some 3rd world hell-holes - Obama and the Democrats are putting on a course of FISCAL BANKRUPTCY FOR USA.
There is ONE WAY and only one way to stop it. Win back the Congress for the GOP in 2010. By 2012, it will be too late - $5 trillion in new debt by then and his massive spending will be ‘locked in’. 2010 IS OUR ONLY HOPE BEFORE WE HEAD OFF THE CLIFF.
Nothing to lose?!?!? Sheeesh.
“Just look at the number of RINO’s. It’s growing not shrinking.”
BS. ZERO GOP VOTES FOR OBAMA’S FAUX STIMULUS. ZERO.
ZERO votes for his budget. You are talking nonsense.
“Even if a third party doesn’t win, (and it won’t) it may do better than Perot did.”
Perot delivered a victory for Clinton. If “Better” means delivering a far-left Democrat again, we dont need ‘better’.
Conservative third parties are a God-send for the socialist Democrats.