[chuckles]

IMHO, we are playing with fire here. What we are watching is the birth of a 3rd party. In the past, the unhappy folks were able to change the GOP, like the Silent Majority, or the Christian vote, the gun people, the national defense people, ect, all gathered together to stop the libertarians from ruining the country. The "Rockefeller Repubs" just want a tax cut with a trade treaty and to hell with everything else. The social issue types have nowhere to go, the gun people have nowhere to go, ect.

Now, I think, The tea party types have bolstered the party, but even have trouble getting committee assignments. If the tea party types form a 3rd party, they may take the social conservatives, gun people, and fiscal conservatives with them, but as long as we split in two, we will always be smaller than the dems. It would be better if the Tea Party took over the GOP, but as you can see, there is about 20-30% that might fit in the Tea Party type vote. The libertarian vote wants to jettison the social conservatives to smoke dope and take God off the money. The establishment wants to get their tax cut and spend more money.

If we don't have a core platform that has something for everybody, we may see people split off or stay home. We are in trouble if half the party thinks following the Constitution make you a "wacko bird".

[wita]

The National party and each state have what is called a platform. That platform is the voice of the members of the party, and pretty much the voice of we the people. Had candidates and members been loyal to that platform and the principles contained therein, would we be having this discussion?

[Cen-Tejas]

If say the Constitutional Party was formed, wouldn’t the conservative voice be louder. As it is, the Republican E filters and squashes every thought and utterance a conservative has.

Then, to get something passed the “E’s” would have to come knock on the “C’s” door????