The Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, America's Party, Independent American Party, Reform Party, Justice Party, Socialist Party USA, Peace and Freedom Party, etc, etc, all say hello!
We already have 3rd party's and they don't amount to a hill of beans. All the talk about the Constitution Party we heard right here on FR this election cycle and they ended up doing far worse in 2012 than they even did in 2008. Virgil Goode couldn't even get .1% of the vote.
I propose that the disgruntled citizens of the United States… Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians… persons of every race, religion, economic status, and whoever else is interested, join together and form a new party. I’d simply call it, the American Party.
Yeah, because disgruntled Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, etc, who don't agree on anything now will suddenly agree on so much more if they were under the banner of some new party. This is just pie in the sky nonsense. Disgruntled Democrats are just as likely to be mad the Democrat party isn't left wing enough. Why would we think they'd suddenly have something in common with renegade conservatives who are pissed the GOP isn't conservative enough? Real libertarians want nothing to do with social conservatives, why is there any reason to think conservatives in this new party would be any more willing to jettison the social conservative positions than they are now?
These 3rd party ideas are a bunch of blather. They never go anywhere and are obviously unworkable. It's just intellectual laziness because it's a lot easier to dream of 3rd party's than deal with the actual hard work of pushing the Republican party to the right one painful step at a time.
“Hard work of pushing the Republican party”
... how have the last 25 years been working for you?
But until there is a set of leaders who join as a National party to converge on one thing, to cut the size and power of the Federal govt, the statists win.
My cynical side agrees with you....but damn, son, buck up. It’s not all lost, and the f***ing Republicans left US. I recently changed my affiliation with my county’s board of elections from “Republican” to “Independent” for the first time since the early ‘80’s. I’ve had it. I’ve worked a Presidential campaign for a Republican. I’ve done my bit for God and country, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Screw ‘em. This election cycle was a sick joke, and one thing I’m NOT is stupid. The GOP is a dinosaur and is extinct but doesn’t yet realize it; a stinking corpse just waiting to be buried.
To Hell with rehabilitating their sorry hides. They’ve had decades to prove themselves.....and have always, ALWAYS fallen short. I’ve had it.
People here list the dozens of third parties, tout their ineffectiveness, point to history, etc., etc....but they forget some key things (and I say this as a sales/marketing pro of over 30 years in high tech): this is a different era; communications have been revolutionized, and the time is ripe for the RIGHT message, party, candidates. We have technology for delivering, driving home a message that our predecessors didn’t have (and the GOP, Tea Party, et al have flatly failed to exploit).
Heath, Jr. has to be thinking that when people like Sarah can not run and succeed on a Republican ticket, that it is high time for a party where she and others like her can run, unencumbered by the Establishment.
The Libertarians have some energy, nerve and a pretty darn good audience. Much of what they are FOR resonated with both R’s and D’s.
Until abortion is stopped, we’re doomed by Heaven, regardless, and will sink like a stone in the sea.