Posted on 04/13/2009 6:56:55 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Oh, and BTW... Copied, Pasted and Circulated...
The republican party left me years ago, I now take care of friends and family......I trust the gov’t for nothing.
Oh, goodie. It’s up to us voters (once again) to wake up the Stupid Party and get them on track once again... despite giving them 6 years of all 3 Houses in the past decade. What indications, if any, are there that say it won’t happen again? Why not put another party in its place? The GOP clearly has to keep re-learning the same lessons. Employees like that need to be replaced, not re-educated a fifth time.
You are not very good at important research... The author is American, published in Canada.
You also lack strategic skills... In case you haven’t noticed, dividing the GOP left the door wide open for the DNC, now completely controlled by DSAUSA, just like our country.
Maybe the funky water has reached your area? You lack the power to take control of YOUR party, but have the power to build and control a new one from the ground up in time to stop the daily assault on all things American?
50-some third parties already exist in America and not one of them has ever been successful on the national stage...
If conservatives don’t get smarter than this soon, I will need some of whatever you are smoking...
THANK YOU!
50-some third parties already exist in America and not one of them has ever been successful on the national stage...
If conservatives don’t get smarter than this soon, I will need some of whatever you are smoking...
What makes people think "Proportional representation" is good? Do we want to see a totaly chaotic situation that we see in Israel, and many European countries?
It SHOULD be "winner take all", A government has to have the power to lead, not constantly be defeated in non- confidence motions and calling elections.
The problem we have is the Republican party is full of Rino's, similar to what happened to the progressive conservative party in Canada years back.
The reform party was born, which was later renamed "The Conservative Party of Canada". To rid the country of remnants of the old progressive conservative party and the "blue liberals" in it, True conservatives in the old party voted to Join with the reform party and dissolve the progressive conservative party, leaving the Blue liberals in the cold without a party.
Steven Harper then won a minority government, ending 12 years of Liberal rule in Canada, and is now on a second minority term.
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No thanks. I do not want a parliamentary system in the USA.
True, the author is American, my comment regarding the origin was intended for the publisher. Mea culpa.
My strategic skills are quite intact. I have watched the GOP decline over the decades I have been of voting age. Ross Perot did the GOP a great disservice but was clearly an indicator that something was amiss with the party. The recent elevation of Michael Steele to the post of Chairman was a ray of sunshine that faded all too quickly.
As a Marine Corps officer, I have learned that one of the best offensive tactics is diversion. Give the enemy something else to focus on instead of the primary assault. The GOP is squarely in the sights of the DNC. Let them have it. While they are busy with the feint, press the main assault.
Further, keep your wise-ass comments in your inner dialogue.
Here, we just have to boot out the rhino's and take back the party. If we can't do that, there is no way we can build another party from the ground up in 2 years. Even Harpers reformers took 10 years, and it wasn't easy.
it really is time for a conservative party.
Amen!
Second that.
This is exactly what makes me think it is our enemy who is promoting third party fantasies among well intended conservatives.
The idea makes NO sense whatsoever, still, many conservatives here and on other sites, cling to the notion as if it is a stroke of genius...
1) 50 or so third parties already exist and not ONE of them can win a national election... If we take a poll on FR of which 3rd party we should all get behind, "conservatives" will be divided across at least five.
2) Even if they could win a national election, we would have opened Pandora’s box to a fractured Parliament type of government, which EVERY Founding Father opposed...for what should be obvious reasons to any true conservative, MINORITY RULE!
On this basis, some believe the third party strategy is a good idea????
Even the Communists were smarter than that, eventually.
If it isn't leftists behind the effort to divide conservatives via 3rd party fantasies, it should be.
VERY true!
The key word in your comment is “watched.” You “watched” as YOUR party was hijacked. Many did...
Thanks for your service... But I must say, your skin is a bit thin for a Marine???
“We just have to boot out the rhino’s and take back the party. If we can’t do that, there is no way we can build another party from the ground up in 2 years.”
A REALITY some on FR are not able to face...
Well worth repeating. You could throw in the Supreme Court also. Neo-conservatism prevailed. All that did was to ruin the Republican brand name. Voters didn't buy tax cuts for the rich, abusive free-trade deals, and nation building interventionism. Conservatives should prepare for GOP bankruptcy.
Divide conservatives across a half-dozen 3rd parties, then paint signs and march in circles like liberals, in protest to the taxes you will pay anyway? This is your strategy for defeating a united left?
No wonder the left is winning!
You really can’t answer these questions?
Time for a NEW party.. or better even a CAUCUS...
The TEA PARTY Caucus.. to pressure BOTH PARTIES..
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