Posted on 10/14/2013 2:51:32 PM PDT by i88schwartz
I keep coming back to this, too.
I know it’s not a great comparison, but it worked. Just look at Jesse Ventura’s election here way back in Minnesota. At the time, the sentiment was almost the same. Everyone was sick and tired of both parties. He SEEMED like a breath of fresh air (actually sounding kind of conservative during a debate), and voila! We elected him.
What we got in the end sucked, but I think we might riding the same kind of sentiment right now. Sick of bother parties, and if polls are accurate (and they may not be), yes people are sick of both parties. Could there not be a better time to hit with this?
We’ll said. Our fragmentation dooms us time after time. Oh well conservatives don’t flock.......
The US hasn’t had a conservative party since the Marxists gained control of the Democrat party a hundred years ago.
Until we have runoff elections and the possibility of somebody like SlicKKK KKKlintler being elected president with 40% of the vote has been eliminated, there's simply no point in even thinking about it. the demoKKKrats are simply too much worse to do anything other than vote against them.
We have to stop the bleeding before we can worry about repair.
“Term limits will fix this problem.”
I agree with you. I have been saying that for years. No more than two 3 year terms.
It is time for an old fashion from the beginning CONSTITUTION Party! Add in term limits, remove retirement, raises, and shut senate down to 4 year terms. 2 terms you are done and NO LOBBYING JOBS for 30 years.
Amen. It is what happens in TN, 2 conservatives will run against a moderate, neither conservative will back down, even the one running lowest in the polling of the 2. Then the moderate wins, it’s how we got corker and gov haslam. And why we got lamar too. The low polling conservative should be forced to back out and let the forerunner beat the moderate hands down. If this would have happened this last election, LT Gov, Sen Ron Ramsey a very conservative guy would have been TN’s governor instead of the finger in the wind bill halsam moderate to the left.
The party needs to focus like a laser on the economy.
The current polls in the VA governor’s race seems to confirm that view.
“Pledge that for the next two election cycles absolutely no discussion of “social issues”. In order to save America, we will “agree to disagree” on social issues.”
I appreciate your comments. Will it be possible to attract former Dem voters with an absence of discussion of social issues? The Dems run almost exclusively on social issues—the Dem politicians ignore economics right up to the President. The Pres ignores costs and job creation entirely, governing on only lip-service to jobs or the economy and only as an excuse to advance socialist policies—he is never serious about economics and seems to have no understanding of economics. The typical Dem voter sees money as coming from magical sources. But, talk to a Dem and they imagine that people are going to force them to believe in some kind of bizarre religion, are going to hurt innocent loving people, will force some extremely restrictive morality of vague character on them, will strip them of their freedom to be foolish, will eliminate science and replace it with rare religious beliefs, and will take away what little they have. Those extreme distortions and stereotypes, many on social issues, are an obstacle to overcome for a new political movement.
Thank you for your comments.
Great point.
I’ve seen those leeches up close and personal when I worked overseas. But we still have the option to just vote them out, regardless. People just have to pay attention and not be afraid to step up to the plate.
However, to make that happen, all federal election should be publicly funded that way its even across the board.
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