Posted on 11/22/2012 6:35:12 AM PST by possum john
On Christmas Eve of last year, I wrote an article expressing my disgust and frustration with the Republican Party. Now, almost a year later, the GOP has once again proven that it has become a completely ineffective vehicle with which to advance the conservative agenda. The election is over, and now is the time to start the process of choosing a suitable replacement.
This is not a step I take lightly. For more than 30 years I have been a loyal Republican, serving in positions within the party as well as being a vocal supporter of GOP candidates and the party itself. For years I excused the failings of the party and did what I could to bring about change from within. During that time it became increasingly clear that the party organization was more interested in playing political games for the sake of winning elections rather than advancing an agenda. It also became increasingly clear that they were not even very good at playing the game. The fact that the GOP was unable to win an election against the undisputed worst President in modern history is testament to need for new direction.
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It will likely take care of itself as we will be in a total economic collapse and CWII by the next election.
Amen, brother!
I didn’t get the 17th Amendment thing at first, because I never looked into it, and now that I see how the founding fathers had originally set it up, it makes perfect sense. Why the hell did they ever change that!?
I agree 100% with the author. I think we should coalesce around a POTUS candidate and work out the details later. I would support Rand Paul, not quite the distant libertarian that his father was, but more well grounded in conservative principles.
Rand Paul - Allen West 2016 (or sooner)!
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016-presidential-race/2012/11/21/rand-paul-2016
I am in agreement with the author. I am done supporting the slightly less progressive wing of the Democrats (the GOP). It has become a One Party State that is enslaving us.
Coalescing around a candidate will serve only that candidate, and then not that well. If we do the ground work now, we will have the credibility and structure necessary to effectively field a Presidential candidate. If we jump the gun however, we will just take our place alongside the other minor parties that never get more than single digits in the elections.
Let's Roll...
It will be interesting to see what amnesty and open borders do to voter demographics by 2016. Unlike some of the optimistic, conservative pundits who crawled out of their funks post election to predict GOP victories in 2014 and 2016, I think we will see the opposite. It is very likely that George W. Bush will have the distinction of being our last Republican president. People wishing to preserve the Republican Party will probably do better to concentrate on state houses and governorships. The GOP will settle back into its comfort zone as a minority party in Washington.
Why the hell did they ever change that!?
For the sake of political advantage, if all of Congress is taken care of by popular vote, it’s easy to take control of Congress using sway, and of course, Senators that keep getting re-elected just for being the same old guys.
Excellent stuff. Name change to Foundation Party is good. I rather like Common Sense Coalition.
Electoral politics is a brutal survival of the fittest contest.
As George Allen has proven again, never ever EVER nominate a proven loser for anything.
West couldn’t hold his own seat. He should never be nominated for statewide or national office. Period.
Question: why did the GOP not win senate or house seats when Romney won at the top of the ticket? Answer: enough Reagan split their tickets, voting Romney at the top and staying loyal to the party the rest of the way. The GOP lost because the Tea Party / Palin / Ron Paul folks stayed home. I don’t blame them. They were insulted, screwed, and laughed at by the likes of Rove, Morris, the RNC etc. Screw the GOP. The Bush-lites want it as their own. Let ‘em have it. It is time for a third party. With hard work it could gain enough seats in 2014 to have real leverage in Congress. 50 seats in the House and 8 or 10 in the Senate could bring everything to a halt.
Idiots who think they can start at the top will be very excited by this LOL!
Work on the House first.
Then you have a base to start a national party, or take over an existing one.
Thankfully, conservatives are almost at this point in the House now!
So if you want to save America just get another 20 or 30 conservative House members elected- or at least STFU.
That was my suggestion (I am the author of this blog (thank you possum john)). The only thing we will accomplish by going off half-cocked is to become yet another minor party that never gets off the ground.
Great idea! I love the thought of a turd party. Why a turd party could even get say... 10-12% in a 2016 election. We could insure another far left potus for eight years.We could make sure the country goes far down the tubes forever! Simply brilliant!(sarc) in case you couldn’t tell.
Frankly then all this is distractive and even antiproductive.
Though you know your audience best, and your priciples are sound, the attainment of a conservative Party is not helped by defining it. Just do it!
Just work to get that 20 or 30 more conservatives in the House.
It’s so simple and everything else is beside the point.
And don’t fall for the fiscal/social conservative divide meme.
The fiscal/social liberal divide doesn’t get attention for the simple reason it doesn’t matter either.
Thanks for writing on these issues and Happy Thanksgiving!
Ross Perot stopped the discussion when he graced us with Bill Clinton—twice. No thanks.
Obama didn’t win by a landslide. Even with the Republican candidate that the Democrats picked. The Democrats were running ads on a black network telling blacks to “Vote as if your life depends on it!” What kind of ad can they run after that? I suppose they could run ads of guys wearing white sheets hanging black people, but that might be too much for even Robert Redford.
The Democrats pulled off a win. Big deal. They don’t have a lock on the next election.
“Understand yourself and understand your opponents, and in one hundred battles, you will not be defeated.”
We were defeated. Obviously, we didn’t understand our voters or the Democrat voters or both.
How is that different than what we just got? I’ve had to hold my nose in every election since Reagan left office. Supporting the GOP Progressives has resulted in 8 years of Clinton and 8 years of Obama. Not quite the track record to brag on, is it?
John McCain and Mitt Romney restarted the conversation when they gave us 8 years of Obama. If you’re okay with that, then please, stay with the GOP. You are one of them.
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