Posted on 03/31/2016 6:33:05 AM PDT by Biggirl
If we went your direction, we’d still be Whigs in the 1850s, still have slavery, and still have no Republican Party such as it once was in its glory.
On what do you base that opinion?
Third party has no chance. There are not the people to support it, and further dilutes the numbers to counter the dems. It is a Hillary win in a landslide which appear to be the scenario you, I hate the republican party types, are fully supportive of.
...but just to be interested, what is the platform of this new party, and how many of the five Republican factions do you think you will coax into the party?
In 1855, no one thought the Republicans-—one of about five parties-—had a chance either. The Liberty Party, the Know-Nothing Party, and others had all come and gone. Yet within one year, the newly-formed Republican Party nearly won the national election, and in five years did win the national election.
Any party has a chance-—IF people think that one of the existing parties is dead, which the Republicans are.
The Republicans of 1855 merely took the existing Whig platform of tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements, but put at the top the KEY issue of “no slavery in the territories.” If it were up to me, I’d merely take the current GOP platform, but put at the very top, BUILD THE WALL/STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, followed by restrict Islamic immigration, followed by “all trade must be fair trade, not just ‘free.’” With those planks, you would attract at least 20% of the Democrats.
Yet within one year, the newly-formed Republican Party nearly won the national election, and in five years did win the national election.
We don’t have a year, much less five. Can the nation survive, Hillary or Bernie? As I see it, if either of the communists win, we are done, and civil war or second revolution will be the only option to restore Liberty.
On your other point none of the items you mentioned will be joined by any significant number of democrats and if getting rid of the Supreme Court decision on Citizens United is not at the top of the list they surely will not engage at all.
IF people think that one of the existing parties is dead.
How many people? Not nearly enough to make a difference but enough to screw the election and make it possible for Hillary or Bernie to walk into office virtually unopposed.
You do it your way, I will do it mine.
It is Trump or bust. Ted had his chance for my runner up vote and lost it with his GOPe support.
Priebus should have been canned after 2012. I don’t know whose —— he’s sucking on to still have his job.
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