Is it time for a Wall party?

[CompProgrammer]

I was listening to Rush and thinking about our Washington politicians. Is it time for a third party, the "Wall" party? I don't have the experience, contacts, or skills to know where to start on this, but here is what I would run on.

1. Nothing about abortion
   • It's too divisive an issue and can be dealt with in the courts.
2. Term Limits
   • No one serves more than two terms, retroactive.
3. Build the wall
   • Like the caller on Rush said the other day, hire the Mexicans to build the wall. They have the biggest concrete block company in the world.

This is all I can think of in my currently angry state. Please embellish on this.

[dfwgator]

"Mr. Bush, put up this wall."

[dirtboy]

No, it's not time to start a new party. Yet.

Enough members of the GOP still listen to their base on this issue to justify us still voting for the better pubbies. After all, Bush isn't running for re-election, but they are. They HAVE to listen to the base. Or get term-limited the old-fashioned way.

[4U2OUI]

I'll bring the beer. You get the pizza.

[b4its2late]

LOL! Good one. We should use it!

[Ben Mugged]

I was thinking more in the line of a canal rather than a wall. Dig a canal from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. The canal would be used for ship traffic in place of the Panama Canal and would look nicer than a wall. All the new waterfront property on our southern border would increase property value. Building tunnels beneath a canal would be impractical.

Yep! A 700 mile canal.

[Mikey_1962]

If you build it, they won't come.

[Prokopton]

"They HAVE to listen to the base. Or get term-limited the old-fashioned way."

It doesn't appear "they" believe this. If the RINO's get back in, "they" will have been proven right.

[Vaquero]

How about a "Dark Side of the Moon" party?

[dirtboy]

It doesn't appear "they" believe this. If the RINO's get back in, "they" will have been proven right.

Enough of the GOP House remains conservative to pass HR 4437. Enough of the Senate remains conservative enough to block amnesty. As long as that holds, support for the GOP should hold.

Accentuated, of course, by loud squawking should they get tempted to stray... :^)

[bigfootbob]

I love talk about third parties. Such folly.

Look at the Libertarians, Constitution Party, Reform Party, American Heritage Party, John Birch Society, Lyndon LaRouche, and on and on...What do they all have in common?

Whiny crybabies that want to take their toys and go home. Losers. Spoilers.

We'd all be better served by staying put and fighting for conservative principles within the established two party system. Like that old ad copy says, "I'd rather FIGHT than switch." Still true today.

Flame on...chumps. Call me MR. ASBESTOS.

[conservativecorner]

Well damn! I thought we were being attacked by aliens when I looked at the thread.

[Yo-Yo]

No flame here. Had it not been for the misguided conservatives who voted for "Mr. Sucking Sound" in 1992, Bush 41 would have had a second term, and Clintoon would have been another democratic has-been former candidate.

[p23185]

I recommend Tancredo to head up this part and then run as it's President nominee.

[Vaquero]

How about the Republican party...newly formed in 1854 when a coalition of Independent Democrats, Free Soilers, and Conscience Whigs united in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

sometimes it takes a crisis to form a new party.

Jeeze TR almost got elected as a Bullmoose in 1912 and beat out the Republican and although a spoiler proved that it can and has been done.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"Build the wall
Like the caller on Rush said the other day, hire the Mexicans to build the wall. They have the biggest concrete block company in the world."

If the Mexicans are hired to do this, they would have to be monitored every second. More than likely, they would build in flaws for their fellow wall-jumpers. I am still quite fond of the idea of a double-wall with a mine field in between...

[Ace of Spades]

Why would the Republicans change when they know we're going to vote for them anyway?

[JeffAtlanta]

Enough members of the GOP still listen to their base on this issue to justify us still voting for the better pubbies.

I don't see it. The Democrat-Lite Republican Senators in red states will continue to get reelected and nothing will change as long as they do.

Seriously, what motivation do they have to change if they still have the nunbers to win in a general election.

[JeffAtlanta]

Nothing about abortion * It's too divisive an issue and can be dealt with in the courts.

Agreed - if the GOP would go neutral on abortion they'd never lose another national election.

[Vaquero]

Bush senior got what he deserved:

George H. W. Bush had supported the ban of some semi-automatic rifles as well as other gun control efforts. In fact, since 1980, no Republican has won the highest office without the endorsement of the NRA.

case closed.