Posted on 10/23/2013 6:56:33 PM PDT by WXRGina
Preach it.
PS: Please don’t misunderstand me. I think we’re totally screwed, period.
I understand that the Republican party is now just a wing of the one-party, commie leftist system. At the same time, if we can’t commandeer the Republican party, we’re truly the toast I know we already are. A third party will not be allowed to “grow legs.” Our elections are compromised with electronic voting machine hacks, foot soldier voter fraud, etc.
I’m actually a “fatalist” when it comes to earthly politics.
Already toast. Watching governors race in VA and can’t believe how bad advertising for Republicans is. Definitely hurt by Bill Bolling supporters becoming turncoats, but ads for Atty. General Cuccinelli should point out he opposed Obamacare and was a major player in an administration that brought prosperity to Virginia.
I do believe the Whigs made precisely the same argument.
The Republican Party is useless. Its only principle is to have no principles. Its only strategy is preemptive surrender. Its only plan for victory is to tick off its base as much as possible.
The Republicans did such a good job of replacing the Whigs that they have become the Whigs.
The basic premise of the two-party system is that the parties offer meaningful alternative policies. When they refuse to do so, it’s time to replace one or both.
"Two wings of the same bird of prey." -- Pat Buchanan
Well, it's a disaster for them.
The original Republicans were not all John Brown abolitionists. They were the moderates that were willing to let slavery stand in the slave states, but ran on denying slavery growth in the territories.
Lincoln was always seeking the middle ground, only issuing his Emancipation Proclamation after a US victory, making room for Democrat generals. As a moderate, he was elected because of Democrat overreach that forced northern citizens to help slave catchers.
If you can’t get a majority of one of two political parties, you can’t have a majority in the country.
If I understand you correctly, since I'm trying to get the GOP RINOs booted from office anyway, maybe passing amnesty is a good thing.
Also, if patriots and former Obama supporters can get their acts together for the 2014 elections, then the following may happen. If patriots can elect a 2/3 conservative majority to both Houses of Congress, then Congress will have the power, under the Constitution's Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes. In other words, Congress will be able to repeal Obamacare without Congress's signature.
Excellent point!
This is what produced the record-breaking Republican victories at every level, coast to coast, in the 2010 mid-term elections.
We proved it works. It will work again. And again.
RINOs must be obliterated in the PRIMARIES.
Those who say "only moderates can win" need to be humiliated into silence and obscurity with the facts of recent RINO losses in general elections (i.e. McCain, Romney).
The TEA Party message -- Cut the Taxes; Cut the Spending; Reduce the Size of Government -- is a winning message coast to coast.
we don’t have time for a third party to go through numerous defeats and the preferred alternative is, of course, to cede the government to the Democrats including their Designated Opposition (Republican) Division. There is no “working within” the Democrat Party which is the One Party that rules. A New party would NOT be a third party, a third name, perhaps, but a second party.Trying to beat the nominal Republicans in the nominal Republican Party is simply reinforcing the Democrat One Party. The Republican party is not a separate entity and will not be again.
The 11th commandment no longer applies.
Right!
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