Posted on 11/22/2012 5:56:24 PM PST by lowbridge
It's not about "THE PLEDGE"...
...or some old "paper" you signed....
.....It's about "THE PRINCIPLES"
You need to do some serious "listening" to your constituents....
And fight tooth and nail to keep new taxes out of the mix....
...Until BHO and the socialist cabal makes some level of commitment to reign in fraud, corruption, waste....
And just dumb@$$ gub'mint spending....
Don't make me come up there...
I will run against you my own bad self...
ggrrrrrrrrr......
Well, Canada had two right-of-center parties (the contradictory named "Progressive Conservatives" and the "Reform Party of Canada"), which were competitive in different regions of the country. They merged them and created an entirely new national "Conservative Party" that was capable of giving them a majority. It worked.
Frankly, I surprised conservatives don't win every election in Canada and England, since the conservatives have a single major party but the left-wing vote is split among multiple major parties there (UK: Liberal Democrats & Labour, Canada: Liberals, New Democratic Party, Bloc Quebecois). It should be like Ireland in reverse (where the right-of-center Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil beat each other up instead of going after the socialist Labour Party)
The two party system really causes problems in the U.S., since both the GOP and RATs have to cover a huge range of the political spectrum to get a majority. The RATs seem to be much better at uniting all their factions than us, and they did well in 2012 even though the Blue Dog RATs have dwindled to almost nothing.
Haiku amuses for a day or two
the struggle for meaning
daily Soviet life in the heartland
Chisox ... Stewart & Lillibridge to Beantown
Stewart now on waivers
Lillibridge gone for De La Torre
27, no hype, but De La Torre a steady performer
signed for another year on the BoSox farm
a former Met, adds ongoing interest in the Youk deal
The vote split with the Reform party led to three easy Liberal majority wins including their initial landslide in 1993 were the PCs the party that won the last election was reduced to TWO seats. In 1997 the PC plus reform vote equaled the Liberal vote, but the liberals won a majority with twice as many seats as PC and Reform combined. It took the parties a decade to merge, a decade of holding almost no seats in Ontario.
We could not survive a decade with a heavily democrat congress.
And it took them till the 4th election with the new merged party to win a majority.
Look what the 1912 split wrought here. The Bull Moose morons ran candidates for Congress and state leg too, must have been a big part of the reason the rats won huge majorities that gave Wilson carte blance.
It is quite disgusting that the Tories didn’t win the last UK election outright. In the past the Liberal Democrats and the predecessor party took evenly from both parties. In modern times they take mostly from Labour but still the Tories won only a minority after the long windup to the election evaporated their poll lead.
The Lib Dem vote has eroded in the polls, moved straight to Labour who would win easily if they had an election today.
Ireland is the most disgusting of all, 2 center-right (both of them so squishy they make the UK Conservative party look like gold) parties that disagree on little being bitter enemies because they were on opposite sides during Irish independence. They form coalitions with the Greens or Labour rather than work together. Kinda reminds one of the conservative southern democrats who were still too butthurt over the civil war to wake up while they’re national party was going hardcore socialist.
Carte blanche.
Thing about Quebec lately they have been more divided federally over separatism than ideology. The Liberals there have been killed by scandal.
The New Democrats, the new flavor previously with no success in Quebec won most of the “federalist” vote outside of a few strongholds of the Liberals and Conservatives.
Harper tried to make his party the federalist option in Quebec in 2008. After initial success he opposed some stupid arts funding that caused his numbers to crash. In the last election he ignored them, was reduced to a few seats there and won a majority by dominating in Ontario.
The Pale hose should
re-sign Youk cause their other
options at third suck
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