The American Whig Party kickoff (1/6/2015)

1/6/2015 | By Laz A. Mataz

[kosciusko51]

Laz would have to change his motto to: “I’d TAAP it”.

[RedStateRocker]

Bookmarking.

[Defiant]

Yeah. He could maybe get Daniel Webster to join his Whig party, but for most, it would have a bad association. Douglas, of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, was a Whig.

[red-dawg]

[Paine in the Neck]

The Bull Moose (or Progressive) Party was the source of many of the big-government, intrusivist woes we are faced with today.

You can look farther back for the root problem. The socialist revolutions in Europe of 1848 sent many marxists overseas to the USA as political outcasts. Many found homes in marxist publishing, farm-labor parties, academia, and Lincoln's new Republican party. Combined with TR's overweaning sense of noblesse oblige it was inevitable that a movement would arise to manage the people like a crop, for their own good.

[wildbill]

The first thing an amateur politico does is choose a name that will create derision and turn people off.

Good luck with making the Whigs relevant.

[Manic_Episode]

You’ll ruin my tagline.

[Defiant]

Conservative Party is a perfect name, except I thought it was in use already.

[reg45]

What about the Free-Soil party?

[hlmencken3]

Good history.

Horace Greeley, a founder of the Republican Party, brought both Abraham Lincoln AND Karl Marx to the American public!

[JustaCowgirl]

Ill raise you both two dozen tortilla rollups and 3 dozen snickerdoodles.

And I like the Freedom party. I’m in.

[Disambiguator]

I’m all in, but we should call the new party the Independence party or freedom party or something like that.

Some of those names are too hackneyed and trite-sounding. I suggest "The Anti-Statist Party" as the new party name. It says it all, and you have to have a clue to even know what it means.

[CrazyIvan]

“Laz would have to change his motto to: “I’d TAAP it”.”

If he were a little younger he'd double TAAP it.

[Uncle Miltie]

Count me in.

[Uncle Miltie]

Let's Party!

[fella]

Pass the Ammo

And down with the Corrupted Craven Crew of Politicians (CCCP).

[DoodleDawg]

First suggestion is another name. Whig?

[GladesGuru]

Baaaad name choice.

Example:
“I’m a member of the Whig Party.”

“Odd, you don’t look like a Whigger.”

[Lazamataz]

Example: “I’m a member of the Whig Party.” “Odd, you don’t look like a Whigger.”

Oh crap.

Yer right.

Well, item one of the American Whig Party will be to SELECT A NAME WE CANNOT BE MOCKED FOR! lol

[Graing]

We need a party name that can be used as a cartoon animal for political cartoonists and fish-wrap peddlers.

The Stag Party?