As I’ve often said before, third parties don’t normally work. But if you look at history, they do work occasionally, maybe once in a century. One of the current major parties just gets tired and worn out, and finally a new party rises to take it’s place.
Of course, that happened with the Republican Party, which rose to success in the time of Lincoln and succeeded in throwing the Whig Party into the dustbin of history.
It’s too soon to tell whether that might happen now. But I’ve never seen a situation in my lifetime where it seemed more likely. I wasn’t taken in by Ross Perot. But this time it’s different.
Two things are needed: a Republican Party that is essentially hopeless, and a really strong and trustworthy conservative leader who can unite all parts of the base—social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, libertarians, Catholics, Evangelicals.
I think maybe Sarah is such a person. I certainly would consider backing her if she goes down that route, and I can’t remember ever saying that before.
Maybe the Republican party will wake up and smell the roses. But it sure as hell doesn’t seem very likely, the way things are going. Here we are in the midst of what may be the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War included, and the Republican leadership still can’t seem to manage to pull up their socks.
So, I’m open to it, if that’s the way it plays out. And I think Sarah is the leader to do it, if it needs to be done.
No one knows how libertarians vote but Catholics vote democrat, how is a party that is more conservative going to win them over and how is a party that is more socially conservative going to pull away a sizable number of the already anti social conservative, economics only/pro illegal crowd?