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Why Not a Third Party, Independent Candidate?
Conservatives4Palin ^ | January 31, 2016 | Steve Flesher

Posted on 02/01/2015 11:47:41 AM PST by Bratch

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A little mental exercise to kill time before the football game.
1 posted on 02/01/2015 11:47:41 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Not now, but soon.


2 posted on 02/01/2015 11:49:29 AM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: Bratch

One, because we conservatives are the huge minority in America today. When you divide the nation by the commies, dummies and illegals vs. the RINOs and the Conservatives, we are the minority and could not win a race for dog catcher against those two garbage groups. We are only group that has our minds on straight and we are the very, very few. Even fewer than the Marines say they are.


3 posted on 02/01/2015 11:49:45 AM PST by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: Bratch

A conservative party in a 3 way race is the only way out of this mess.


4 posted on 02/01/2015 11:51:01 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Bratch

Because a third party has never won a presidential election in the history of this country? The Republican Party was not a “third party” in 1860 as the Whigs had already disappeared.


5 posted on 02/01/2015 11:53:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Bratch

There was talk in 2008 about a “Constitution Party” but it never got any traction.

The best we have been able to get is the Tea Party within the GOP.


6 posted on 02/01/2015 11:53:08 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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Why Not a Third Party, Independent Candidate?

I don't think a third party candidate has ever won a presidential election in the U.S. It would split right-leaning votes assuring a Dem victory.

7 posted on 02/01/2015 11:53:20 AM PST by Cry if I Wanna
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To: Bratch

Does not take much mental energy to know our nation with current Elite parties is in serious trouble. The only people who don’t seem to see it are the ones who feed the beast.
I voted Constitution pary in 2012 because I liked thier conservative platform. I am a history major and know that the current state of GOP is not much different from the WHIGS. The GOP ran as a third party in 1986 and lost but in 1860 they had a winner in Lincoln.
So I would support Palin if she ran independent someone needs to shock the GOP-E out of thier unworldly cocoon.
Freegards
LEX


8 posted on 02/01/2015 11:53:58 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Cry if I Wanna

You mean except for Lincoln.


9 posted on 02/01/2015 11:54:05 AM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: Bratch

foot ball game?

Third Party?

Ineffective sour grapes would be the result

most all of America is satisfied with forming coalitions under the umbrellas of two parties

political and philosophical differences are resolved under these umbrellas


10 posted on 02/01/2015 11:55:09 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican Party is a third party right now.

In as much as the parts of their base will not compromise on religious freedom, socialized medicine, securing the border, or homosexuality.

The party can not force that sector of the electorate to base order acknowledge their new agenda, hence the party has been non competitive for the last several election cycles.

11 posted on 02/01/2015 11:59:12 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Bratch

We need a third party to force the two Progressive parties to drop the facade. People need to stop thinking in the false Dem vs GOP paradigm because they are not enemies or even opponents. The only choice they provide is slavery by collectivism leading to globalism or slavery by globalism leading to collectivism.


12 posted on 02/01/2015 11:59:26 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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Why Not a Third Party, Independent Candidate?

I want a third party candidate to run.

I want Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to run and get over 90% of the black vote.- Tom

13 posted on 02/01/2015 12:00:34 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: Bratch

Well, the Clinton’s have already used that trick and it worked. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for them again.


14 posted on 02/01/2015 12:01:00 PM PST by centurion316
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To: Bratch

Unless and until there is another revolution in this country the ruling elite and the DC establishment will never allow again anyone to sit in the WH that is not also a crony establishment criminal. They’ve come too far to sacrifice and lose what they’ve gained in eliminating the middle class, implementing stricter control over the people and resources and nationalizing the sovereignty of the US under the last four presidents.


15 posted on 02/01/2015 12:02:48 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Bratch

Because it would guarantee another Clinton presidency; see for example H. Ross Perot (the “H” presumably standing for “Hegomaniac”)


16 posted on 02/01/2015 12:02:57 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do)
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Because a third party has never won a presidential election in the history of this country? The Republican Party was not a “third party” in 1860 as the Whigs had already disappeared.

Correct...

I wish more people in general, especially Freepers understood this...

A third party is a rabbit hole to nowhere...

Conservatives CAN change DC, one congressman and election at a time...

But we need to get away from the purity positions...not a single candidate will have positions everyone likes...

I'd take 65 % of Walker, Pence, Kasich, Rubio over Hillary anyday...

Jeb Bush is a different story,

17 posted on 02/01/2015 12:02:57 PM PST by Popman (Christ: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Bratch

Why not have the NRA & Tea Party get together and stand up a CONSERVATIVE roster of candidates? At least then we would know where they stand on the issues. And, we would get to (correctly) refer to them as CENTRIST (for the low info voters that means they support & honor the Constitution which is the basis for our laws & culture, and therefore the CENTER of our society) and NOT let the media label us as “RIGHT WING”. Right Wing connotes a bunch of whackos and terrorists.


18 posted on 02/01/2015 12:05:49 PM PST by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period. REPEAL 17 !!)
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To: Bratch

No....just no.


19 posted on 02/01/2015 12:06:26 PM PST by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Popman

“A third party is a rabbit hole to nowhere...”

Perhaps ...if it’s political power you seek. If you chose political representation you will vote for the candidate of your choice regardless of party. Only when the majority of voters do so will a representative republic be restored in America.


20 posted on 02/01/2015 12:10:33 PM PST by Justa
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