Gallup: 52% of Republicans Say America Needs a 3rd Party

CNS News ^ | 10/11/2013 | Terry Jeffery

[DB]

That’s it in a nutshell.

Anyone who understands math knows our future is rapidly being destroyed. That we can’t magically continue to do what we’re doing without the consequences ever coming due...

[TWhiteBear]

If 52% of the Republicans don't like the Republican Party, then the Republican Party is a dead horse.
I went to the original Gallup poll cited in the OP. Reading the results there,this is a realistic time to bulldoze the GOPe out of the way. Independents, as usual, strongly support a third party, but 52% of Republicans that are willing to abandon their party is a real death rattle.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx
TWB

[98ZJ USMC]

Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math. If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?

This is the essential truth, like it or not. The path is to take over the Republican party and push out the RINOs, not try a Third Party. Those of us who went Tea Party at the beginning knew this would takes years and many election cycles.

[roses of sharon]

Free Republic has yet to jump off the GOP merry-go-round, somehow they think going in circles for decades is going to change the Republican Party.

[Jim Noble]

“Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.
If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?”

40% conservative, 30% independent, 30% communist.

3-way, winner takes all. It is, in fact, the ONLY way we can win.

[caww]

Prince of FOOLS!

[JRandomFreeper]

There are plenty on FR that will berate you if you say you aren't going to vote for the offered liberal(R).

/johnny

[caww]

[caww]

Sorry, here it is..

[jjsheridan5]

There are plenty on FR that will berate you if you say you aren't going to vote for the offered liberal(R).

They are fighting a losing battle. The Democratic wing of the Republican party is toast. The people staying home aren't coming back. And no amount of berating will make any difference.

[Bratch]

"This keeps up and I’m not sticking around to watch it happen," Palin said.

Pretty straightforward to me. Change your ways or I'm outta here.

Don't forget, she's flirted with 3rd parties in the past. And she's far more libertarian-leaning than the Scoop Jackson democrats that run the GOP-e these days.

[caww]

Fakes such as these "idiots" who mask as republicans are equally to blame, if not moreso!

[caww]

..."If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?.........EXACTLY!

And then there are these..

[elpadre]

A third party guarantees Democrats will control forever.

Forget it!

[caww]

There is no way a third party will garner the voters to win...none....the public now is all about Personality Cult Politics and all the fluffy emotions they bring with it.

Further it's entirely a "give me" society. You have all the youth voters/ the minorities voting for whoever gives them the most entitlements. Who think no further then how to get the latest trendy item on their docket of wants..... You cannot just change the party without also changing the mindset of the public

[pluvmantelo]

You’re looking at it in intra-party terms and I don’t disagree with your analysis. I was commenting on the effects of Bush’s governance (or lack thereof) on the electorate. I won’t do the laundry list of his blunders, but they were legion, so much so that he destroyed the party’s brand on the national level.

[luvbach1]

Don’t want a third party if all it will do is split the vote and throw the election to the Demonrats. It would have to be a party that would appeal mightily to Republicans and Independents because Demos won’t go for it.

[caww]

This is the party now....obvious where the problem is for conservatives

[caww]

<...”A third party guarantees Democrats will control forever”....>

Yes, and the demorats have been staunch at dividing the party...from the looks of this thread it’s working.

There has to be another way and I think that Cruz is showing us how to do that.....along with Lee.

These negotiations on the debt etc. (bottom line Obamacare) both Cruz and Lee are trying to show the Republicans you cannot let the demorats breath....that you have to keep the boot on their necks.

[luvbach1]

The cartoon in your post #98 does sum it up accurately. So is the answer to position the party midway between the two poles? Don’t think so.