I think Sarah has been Reading Free Republic Lately.
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.
I think Sarah has been Reading Free Republic Lately.
Rush Limbaugh addressed this same issue, yesterday.
The establishment Republicans want to kick the conservatives out of the party. They don't want the conservatives having any say-so in the party whatsoever. And I'll give you one example why. It's an AP story. The Republican establishment, read this AP story. Rather than get mad at the AP, rather than get fighting mad at the impugning of members of the Republican Party, rather than get mad at that, they cower in fear and say, "How can we make the AP stop writing this stuff?" And they conclude that the only way to pull that off is to get rid of any conservative influence at all. And one way you can do that is keep 'em out of the convention and keep 'em out of the platform fights.
GOP Establishment Tries to Change Delegate Rules to Marginalize Conservatives
See my post #3.
This is why Sarah is one of my Role Models.
I like the idea of a third party — too long has this nation had to sit on a two-legged barstool.
It’s so exciting to hear John McCaine speak.................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Now we know why GOP News, I mean FOX News kicked her off tonight. As usual, it’s fair and balanced between Republocrats and Demicans, but if you really want to restore power to the people, you’ll be shown the door. I doubt her contract gets renewed now.
If Obama wins we got nothing to lose by going third party.
There's your new party with the GOP-e named and ID'd and cut loose to do whatever it is they want to do ~ but without the people who do the work and do the voting.
I would anticipate that some time in January would be the earliest we could get that off the ground ~ but what a welcome for a new President Romney ~ no party behind him except Boehner and Cantor.
Oh, about those states, some of them WILL NOT BE INVITED ~ they have to start the Republican party all over again SANS every single official they have now. Rhode Island, Connecticut, California ~ they spring to mind. The current crowd isn't winning anything, so we need a totally new crowd ~ they certainly can't do worse.
There's your new party with the GOP-e named and ID'd and cut loose to do whatever it is they want to do ~ but without the people who do the work and do the voting.
I would anticipate that some time in January would be the earliest we could get that off the ground ~ but what a welcome for a new President Romney ~ no party behind him except Boehner and Cantor.
Oh, about those states, some of them WILL NOT BE INVITED ~ they have to start the Republican party all over again SANS every single official they have now. Rhode Island, Connecticut, California ~ they spring to mind. The current crowd isn't winning anything, so we need a totally new crowd ~ they certainly can't do worse.
Now THAT I could get behind.
The Quisling Moderates are not going to be allowed in our New Conservative Party Sarah and us create. They can stay with the GOP-E
Sounds like a good subject for a cleaver Photoshop picture.
The worst that can happen is we continue to lose elections in those places, but the best thing is that once we get over half the state parties signed on with the NEW Republican National Committee the old GOP-e will have been effectively disgorged at the state level as well WITH MINIMUM DISRUPTION TO ANYTHING MEANINGFUL.
We need to have a filter ~ based on personal history, ideological position, campaigns worked with and so forth so we can quickly identify GOP-e apparatchiks and bar them from party affiliation.
A Third Party would guarantee rule by disciples of Bill Ayers for decades...if not longer.
The American Truth Party
The Constitutional Restoration Party
The Representative Republican Party
It's not like we can do any worse or hand the elections over to the Democrats, Its the GOP-E who's been doing that!
They are happy being a minority party, just sitting back going to golf games and hobnobbing at the parties.
JUST LIKE THE WHIGS IN THE 1850's!!!
The GOP got its start as THE third party and if they are too stupid to learn from the Whigs mistakes, then they deserve to join them in extinction!
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