Posted on 07/29/2017 9:08:32 AM PDT by LS
On Twitter I just did a thread about how a new party that would replace the Republicans might come into being.
1. I don't think this can happen by 2018. Not enough prep time.
2. It should not copy the Reform Party and try to start, de novo, all at once.
3. It needs to begin within the GOP but (unlike the Tea Party) ALWAYS with the intention of going solo.
4. A candidate in 2018, for example, would run as an R but affix an "AmericaFirst/MAGA" affiliation. Start getting the brand out. This is key to name recognition on ballots.
5. At the same time, said candidates need to be talking very frankly with donors saying, "Next time I run, it will be with the AmericaFirst/MAGA Party" and I'll need your help more than ever.
6. When possible, FLIP the "R" and "AmericaFirst/MAGA") to "AmericaFirst/MAGA" THEN R. (This is exactly what the "Democratic Republicans" of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison did in 1800-1810 until all that remained was the "Republicans."
7. In 2020, make the jump.
8. Trump should endorse CANDIDATES, but not specifically the AmericaFirst Party until 2020.
10. My thought is that HE would have to remain an R in 2020---it's still going to be relatively close in pop votes in a number of states, even though he likely will win more electoral votes than today.
11. As soon as he wins in 2020, he makes the registration change and from that point for the next four years it's all "AmericaFirst/MAGA."
12. This won't be easy. It will be brutal. MANY good candidates will lose due to confusion, Rs putting up multiple decoys, etc. We have to be ready.
13. It's all about name recognition. See Lisa (the COW) MurCOWski and how she screwed Miller by running as an independent with her superior name recognition.
But it can be done. I think this is our best shot in years. Someone said, "The Rs would just coopt it like they did the Tea Party." Well, that wasn't exactly what happened to the TP. In many cases, people just quit after the election thinking they had done their job, and not realizing that politics these days is 24/7. Toomey is a great example. After he got elected, no one held his feet to the fire.
Second, the Tea Party did not understand that winning is about GOVERNING, not just winning the election. I know personally of a county in OH that kicked out a reasonably good GOP chairman and replaced him with a TP guy who would "bring in more TP types." Except they guy couldn't fundraise, couldn't speak to the old-line GOP, so the party lost serious ground & he had to resign.
We shouldn't think (as I'm sure most of you don't) that just cause they are AmericaFirst/MAGA they are political stars. Some will be good, some will be losers. Sorting all this out is a difficult process, but it is a process and everyone has to be willing to stick it out.
For your consideration
Common Sense Party!!! Who doesn’t want to have Common Sense!!
PRWP
Post Republican Whig Party
aka GGOP (Great Grand Old Party)
Finish the takeover of pub party. We have the head.
I remember when the likes of John McCain condemned the Tea Party.
I distinctly recall Gov. Palin phrasing it in the same way:
“Common sense solutions” was her theme.
She would make a great member of this party, should it ever come to fruition.
As to a new party I am all for it. I was hoping we could change the Republican party but there are way to many RINOs.
I hope you bring this up in your August 5 WH meeting!
My father-in-law and I called our new party : Society Heeding In Time.
I like it.
Interesting, Dan Bongino was talking about this yesterday—that in the past he did not support Third Party, but given the fact that GOP is acting more and more like Dems or a Uniparty-esp. with healthcare bill.
Seems that the downside risk of going third party is diminishing. We are all tired of being sold out :(
He did not go into the detail you did. He did, however, mention that David Horowitz is also in favor of third party.
I think you have some good ideas.
> Finish the takeover of pub party. We have the head. <
That’s actually the only realistic option. Starting a new party is easy. But getting it up and running - and winning elections - would take an enormous amount of money.
And donors to that new party would have to keep on giving, even after the inevitable early political defeats. I’m just not seeing that happening.
It had better happen soon - please!
I am NOT casting another vote for a Repulsican again, and I most certainly loathe anyone who casts one for a dim bulb crat.
Please, please give me a party composed of intelligent, honest, and talented folks.
And, I have my bottle of urine ready to dedicate McDork’s grave as one worthy of being a community septic tank.
Good ideas LS.
Trump could recruit top business people to run office rather than professional glad handers ... beginning the process of really breaking the back of the Deep State.
Maybe “Americans First” shortened over time to ‘Americans”...
I’m more inclined to think we’d see a break-off faction from the dem tent. The blacks could take their toys and form their own party, maybe use their numbers by selling them to whoever needs their vote. No matter what happens, too many in the dem tent don’t like each other.
Remember all the cr** they pulled about him starting a third party?
I just posted a reply (short one) about the need for a MAGA party based on Free Markets instead of Crony Capitalism which is addicted to the Deep State from DC to the city level to stay in business.
I've figured out who the GOPE is - they're a bunch of people who LIKE losing... then they can sit around Washington DC drawing rooms and discuss the nuances of the same 24 books they read in college on being 'Conservative'...
In short - ALL talk NO Action...
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