Posted on 10/11/2016 11:25:44 AM PDT by Boomer
With the recent defection of GOP leadership from supporting the Republican nominee it may signal it's time for the "Freedom Party", as it has been referred to, to emerge. It may mean different things to different people but my hope is it would bring reasonable people who believe in the US Constitution as it is written from all sides to a common banner to unite under.
What say you?
I actually listened to a little Rush today. He was on target. Why support Republicans who think Hillary is a more suitable president than Donald?
Me, not Rush: Even if Trump wins, the GOP needs to DIE.
It’s time for something far, far beyond a new political party.
Really, it’s time.
As far as the GOP goes, I’m not voting for them any longer.
That being said, elections don’t matter. The entire political system, the media and the government are utterly and completely corrupt.
They are parasites.
The Republican party was created by former Whig party rank and file, because the pro-business Whig leaders could not bring themselves to condemn slavery, because it was good for business. Once the anti-slavery rank and file left, the Whig party withered.
But times have changed. This time, the Republican party rank and file have begun the process to *purge* the corrupt party leadership. And they have already had some major victories in doing so.
Because of Mr. Trump, the corrupt leaders have unmasked themselves. They are not conservatives, nationalists, and representatives of the people. They are liberals, globalists, and see multinational corporations as their only constituency.
Mr. Trump unmasked them, and while he can decimate their ranks, the rank and file Republicans must purge them in earnest. Booting them out of elective and appointive office.
And purging is the better alternative. A new party just creates weakness in our ranks. To capture the Republican party means that the American people are again in charge of our own destinies.
It will also mean we can take on and defeat the socialist-Democrat party and tear down the edifices they have built, without always worrying of a liberal Republican sabotaging our efforts, standing behind us with a knife, in hopes of betraying us when we are most vulnerable.
However Sen. Jim Risch maintains his support for the republican nominee. I will note that the statement did not say Donald Trump specifically.
Nothing wrong with the “Constitution Party” but I do think “Freedom” or “Freedom and Liberty” party has a better ring. It may be a small but important difference.
Many young people belong to the dem party because they don’t understand what it is now and the word “democratic” rings true to them. I remember thinking this myself at one time.
However, whether such an odd assortment of groups in one party could emerge naturally and hold together without a charismatic figure at the helm is debatable.
Here in Mesa County, Colorado, we (the "liberty movement", or whatever you want to call it) has no usable source of local political news. The TV stations are useless and the newspaper is a Democrat Party organ. We have therefore fantasized about getting together and forming our own news medium. It has never happened and probably won't, for the same reason that a Freedom Party would be difficult. It is obvious that any such news medium would immediately turn into a multi-faction battle to see who gets to edit it. You've got the Constitutional Conservatives, the Anarchist Libertarians, the Church Conservatives, the Chamber-of-Commerce Crony Capitalists, the Chemtrails People, the New Guard, the Old Guard, ...
Don not call it the Freedom Party.
Believe me.
I just discovered that there is a person named Spencer Zimmerman running for the “Trump Conservative Party” on the official ballot in District 1 in Wisconsin. He is running against Paul Ryan and is actually on the ballot. Does anyone know anything about this? Have not seen it discussed anywhere.
[I’ll be moving to the first red state that secedes. I hope it’s Texas. I miss the weather.]
You do realize that you would be a foreigner then, right?
Considering all of the problems immigration has caused in the state, good luck getting citizenship in the new government.
It’s either a new party, or clean house in the Republican Party top to bottom so that the executive of the party are not uniparty types and are explicitly anti-globalist.
Then make sure that people running under the banner hold similar views so you don’t have RINO eruptions of globalist support after voters have said no thanks.
Whether he wins or loses, Donald Trump should give time to that project (either a new party or cleaning the stables of the GOP) in 2017. The current edifice is about to be swept away. And good riddance.
*yawn*
The GOP currently has the majority of governorships, state houses, Senate, the House of Representatives, and soon a SCOTUS majority.
Wishful thinking the Republican party is suddenly going to disappear.
Make them leave.
Less than a month before the election. Many of us have already voted. I don’t think you can change it at this point.
No idea.
This country’s problems aren’t going to be fixed by elections, because the elections have also been corrupted.
Nothing wrong with the “Constitution Party” but I do think “Freedom” or “Freedom and Liberty” party has a better ring.
I have a feeling I won’t have any problem obtaining citizenship. I absolutely stand by my comment.
I think you misunderstood. The GOP isn’t going anywhere but many of us can no longer support a party that abandons the peoples nominee. They are worthless to us if they can’t do the most basic thing.
The dems, with all their foul politics, at least stick together. They have become one big crime syndicate with all their voting fraud and manipulation with the media’s help. The GOP is a huge disappointment. Even Chavetz, someone I had grown to respect, bailed on Trump this weekend thereby showing his true GOPe colors and it wasn’t even over something of substance; just locker room banter between two guys being vulgar that was not meant for the ears of anyone else. Just bluster and bravado. I would think a male rep would at least understand that. Heck; most females have talked more raunchy at one time or another.
That’s one way to look at it I suppose.
You’re mistaken if you think this is my first election.
I agree. The Republic is DOA. The GOP will be reduced to a rump party, like Venezuelan opposition parties.
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