The NBA Math on a Third Party Effort for Conservatives

UPDATE: A PolitiJim reader named Georgia (AllToJesus) sent me a link to a wonderful post by writer Ted Lacksonen at the Country Thinker.

Lacksonen’s ultimate solution is to join Libertarian Gary Johnson as President who I understand is selecting a pro-marijuana VP. (sarcasm alert ahead) Undoubtedly this will attract every last Santorum supporter that just split the conservative movement over supposed religiosity. Of course, Johnson’s platform isn’t all bad, but Libertarian party people need to think this through a bit more. My response to Ted quickly followed by the MECHANICS of a long term strategy I think could be employed.

Your points are so well made, I'm holding up a post on the same object to address and "flesh out" more of the thinking around your points.

I have a question for you. Let's say you are realize that professional basketball has bastardized the game that the founding father of basketball – Naismith -envisioned. Get rid of the shot clock, 20 fouls a game and 4 step dribbling without a call.

The Constitution Party is going to get less (probably far less) than 1% of the vote like always

Check with me in November. I believe a number of conservatives will join them this time. The Republican Party is gone and is not salvageable.

Check with me in November. I believe a number of conservatives will join them this time.

Nah, conservatives will overwhelmingly turn out to vote for the only candidate that can beat Hussein. The GOP could have nominated a garden slug and it would get 90%+ of the conservative vote. Also, the Perot disaster is still too fresh in conservative leaders minds. They know a 3rd party on the right only helps Hussein win. Folks like Levin, Palin, Rush, etc, will reinforce this throughout the campaign.

The Republican Party is gone and is not salvageable.

Geeze, we just elected lots of Tea Party backed Republicans in 2010 to the House and at the local/state level. For a variety of reasons we didn't manage to get a good conservative nominated for President, and so many of you people are ready to give up and pout through the 2012 election. Pushing the GOP to the right is going to take many years. It will require a generation of conservative activists joining the party, actually participating in events, going to meetings, bringing in like-minded friends and family, etc. It isn't a 1, 2, 3 or even 4 cycle process.

I guess we will have to wait till November to know for sure, but I'd bet you the Constitution Party gets no higher percentage of the vote (.15%) than they did last time around. People know by now that 3rd party's only act as spoilers in the US, the vast majority of people that vote aren't willing to waste their ballot that way.

I would refer you both to our beloved founder:

"I will not go to my maker with the blood of millions of innocent unborn children on my hands or vote for a man who would willingly and wantonly deprive me or my children of our God given liberty. I will not vote for or support a man with an abortionist/liberal/progressive/statist record like Mitt Romney's. Period!! I do not tremble in fear of Marxist clowns!! I place my faith in GOD and the decent liberty loving people in America!!"

Jim Robinson

It will require a generation of conservative activists joining the party, actually participating in events, going to meetings, bringing in like-minded friends and family, etc. It isn't a 1, 2, 3 or even 4 cycle process.

Sorry, Longbow. Been there, done that, it doesn't work. The rules are written by and controlled by the liberal wing of the GOP-e. Everyone knows that.

Log Cabins have more say in that party than do conservatives.

The Tea Party, if you recall, received enormous opposition by the GOP-E. They refused support for Angle in Nevada, for O'Connell in Delaware, and were aghast nationwide.

As it turns out, the Tea Party was interested in finances, and it had front stage only as long as the gop-e media decided to give it front stage.

The republican party is owned lock,stock, and barrel by the GOP-E, otherwise known as liberal republicans.

I think we agree on purpose but not on tactics. Your and Old Testament kind of guy where I think you have to win the hearts and minds of people to change them. I have always believed that “ go ye therefore and teach all nations” does not translate into legislate all actions for people. We will loose some and God will judge. Your methodology of daring me to respond because of Jim Robinson’s statement of principle tells me a lot about you. As I said I don’t think we disagree on desired outcome just in the methodology and our interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. We can’t say that the path we follow is the one God chooses for us to follow we just have to believe it is the correct one as we don’t always understand his reasons.

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