Posted on 06/28/2014 10:52:04 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
What transpired in the Mississippi Senate run-off is a red line for many conservatives across the country, because the Republican Party establishment essentially took a civil war and escalated it to a war for independence.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
How about if you live in Kentucky, vote for 3rd party or write in instead of Mitch “I hate the Tea Party”. Same in Mississippi and South Carolina.
Might go over the head of the typical telefundraiser.
“I’m not a Republican, I’m a conservative”, (click) also works.
We’ll know the RNC is getting desperate when they redial no-go’s & shout “Do you really want Hillary as President!!? Well, do ya, punk!?”
Good stuff. But Erick Erickson will support Cochrane in the general because he is a ‘vote for the R’ Republican when the chips are down. The Redstate TOS makes supporting a third party a bannable offense. So if GOP-E wins out for whatever reason, GOP-E gets his vote. Erickson is not the purist he likes you to think he is.
I’ve listened enough to Erickson to agree with you and I think Rush Limbaugh also has a strong tendency to support the GOPe although I think he was as PO’ed as he’s ever been over this travesty in Mississippi.
A third party takes time to build.
The United Kingdom Independence Party recently scored a 27 percent popular vote for first place nationwide in European Parliament elections after some 15 years of existence.
I’m not against a third party. I stay registered Republican in our closed Pennsylvania system with chances to vote for good candidates in the primary, but I’m ready to write in just like many in my country did to elect a conservative candidate over the R and D candidates in that special election mentioned at the end of the article posted here.
Sarah Palin comes to mind.
Sarah Palin and others like Glenn Beck and Mark Levin could play important roles in ramping up things to oppose the GOPe.
The mum approach of elected officials who should be speaking more loudly about Mississippi (Ted Cruz etc.) disturbs me greatly.
There is a vacuum of leadership.
In an environment driven by modern media I think that
people may change their minds quickly about which party to support and a third party could emerge quicker than it might have in the past.
Sudden economic changes would be major igniters for voters to change preferences on a dime.
the problem is the words “political experience” or in other words, those who believe that to be president, you must serve time in other area’s of government...
if you served time in other area’s of government, you got there through a political party, therefore, you owe allegiance to said party..
the end result is more of the same....
find and back the guy or gal that the party shuns....
then, and only then, can the liberation process begin
In Pollyanna Land, that idealism could be true.
In Realville, a candidate who has never been through the election process has no idea how vicious it can be. Of course, those of the preferred Party get preferential treatment. Those from the opposition Party get slammed, lied about, jeered at, called all kinds of names — and that is just from the Media. Herman Cain, for example, found that out in 2012. Remember Joe the Plumber and the assault he face — for just asking a presidential candidate a question?
Surviving the election process could be compared to surviving a trip through a wood chipper.
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