Sarah is here to stay until the Battle is over and Conservatism has won!
Posted on 08/29/2012 3:15:38 PM PDT by NYer
TAMPA, August 29, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sarah Palin has said a third party may emerge if the Republican Party’s leaders abandon conservative principles.
Asked if the GOP’s increasing fractiousness may lead to a new party taking its place, Palin replied, “If history is an indication it is a possibility – if the Republicans don’t remember what the planks in the platform represent.”
“Look what happened in the mid-1800’s. The Whig Party went away and the Republican Party surfaced, because the electorate got sick and tired of the party fighting for power and not doing the will of the people,” Palin said on Fox News.
Palin’s words echo those made by the founder of a conservative third party, Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party.
“The Republican Party is going to go the way of the Whigs in the 1850s,” said Phillips, who served as the first presidential candidate of what was then known as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, in his 1992 acceptance speech. “It will die the death of a double-minded man – who talks one way but lives in conflict with that which he professes to believe.”
Phillips, who headed the Office of Economic Opportunity during the Nixon administration, frequently likened the modern GOP’s refusal to take a definitive stand protecting all unborn children to the Whig Party’s refusal to oppose slavery – a dodge that led to its implosion and the birth of the Republican Party.
The Constitution Party platform opposes abortion under all circumstances.
The former Alaska governor has in the past bypassed a liberal Republican in favor of a more conservative, third party challenger. In 2009, Palin endorsed Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over pro-choice Republican Dede Scozzafava for a congressional race in New York.
Democratic operatives also claimed Palin supported Pat Buchanan‘s third party presidential candidacy in 2000, because she wore a Buchanan button as she welcomed him during a visit to Wasilla. In fact, she served on Steve Forbes’ campaign that year.
However, in 1995 and 2000 Palin’s husband, Todd, registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which has endorsed the Constitution Party presidential candidate since 1996.
Palin is not alone in her ominous message to the Republican elite. Phyllis Schlafly said House Speaker John Boehner was “making a mistake” when he said “I’ve never read” a party platform, then specifically noted his exceptions to protecting some classes of the unborn. “It’s a very grassroots document that I think the politicians ought to listen to,” she said.
A number of other Republicans - including former Congressman Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes, and U.S. Senator Bob Smith - have cast their lots with the Constitution Party since 2000, only to leave shortly afterwards. The party’s 2012 presidential candidate is former Republican Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia.
Palin, the Republican party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee, was not publicly invited to speak at the Republican National Convention. John McCain will address the convention tonight.
Hell if we could merge the smaller third parties into a larger one, that could be a force to be reckoned with.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
A Third Party would guarantee rule by disciples of Bill Ayers for decades...if not longer.
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Funny ,, it took only 10 years for an upstart 3rd party called Republicans to get the presidency...
I like Sarah Palin, really, I do. And I thought McCain’s selection of her as VP candidate was a smart move. But FR posters have an unrealistic opinion of her influence on the national stage. I wish it wasn’t so.
This would have been the ideal year to run a third party, since people aren’t happy with how Bush’s term ended nor how Obama’s term has progressed.
The way I would create a new party would allow us to continue voting for good conservative republicans while replacing bad ones with new party members. The new party would probably caucus with the GOP most of the time while inserting our ideals into legislation at every opportunity.
As the new party grew stronger we could start pulling conservative republicans into the fold.
Personally I think one problem with the GOP is the fact that democrats were driven out of their party by the marxists and have nested in the GOP and driven it left.
Six.
> If Obama wins we got nothing to lose by going third party.
If Romney wins we got very little to lose by going third party.
The Freesoil party played a big part in creating the GOP.
Did you get your crystal ball at the same garage sale where Obama got his teleprompter?
In fact any other candidate who run stood an excellent shoot of beating him.....
Except Romney!!!! Who is too Liberal and is now showing true Conservatives the door out.
I am so pleased she never went away. She wields so much power simply by what she says. Hopefully, she will ultimately obtain what she and we all deserve, a conservative presidency.
While that was happening the Democrat party immediately after Buchanan's election appears to have fractured several different ways leaving each major segment in no position to pursue a Presidential race to a successful conclusion ~ and that left the Republicans in the unenviable position of taking the Presidency in 1860 just as the Souf' seceeded.
No matter how this year's election ends up, there will be a serious power vacuum and the Democrats will probably find it difficult to even run a candidate in 2016. The Republicans will be severely weakend due to their rejection of their very own very Conservative party base.
An insurgency can take over the leadership position through the simple expedient of forming a NEW Republican National Committee (that's it's name and what it will be).
Virtually any combination of candidates who ran this year aside from Paul and Romney would have been very acceptable and could have stomped Bammy badly.
I’d even give Paul the treasury post and Romney could drive his limo.
Sarah is here to stay until the Battle is over and Conservatism has won!
I believe that we’d see some major runoff from the rat party as well, those who shifted to independent, looking for some viable alternative to the two scumbag parties we currently have.
As much as anyone might wish to immanentize the eschaton through gradualism, sometimes what you get a chance to do is fill a quite vacuous power vacuum as occupied presently by our Republican and Democrat national leadership.
I think that time is now (not this month, but this next quarter)
I’d even give Paul the treasury post and Romney could drive his limo.
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