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It is as I said to you a few times before: you are not leaving the GOP, the GOP is leaving you.

And the solution is as I said a few times before: with a big, sudden move, a whole conservative party shift needs to occur to a third party that uncompromisingly represents conservative values.

That will split the electorate, and it may mean some Democratic victories for awhile, but a real party shift - not just for the Presidential slot, but for Congressional slots - will put the third, conservative party officials in actual office, and able to block legislation, or horsetrade between the parties to get legislation.

And it is as I said to you before, something that cannot be done by individuals at the grassroots by ones and twos. Some individual with a huge following and lots of eyeballs needs to make the shift. FreeRepublic is THE conservative website, par excellence, THE one with the most eyeballs, THE place that brought down Dan Rather, even.

The person who has to do it, then, is YOU. YOU have the platform, here, by which a true American Conservative Party, from coast to coast, could be stood up in short order. FreeRepublic, under your control, gives you the power that nobody else in the conservative movement has - the power to short-circuit all collective action problems, and reach out and grab people who already post here, state-by-state, and draft them for office.

I said before that you should do it, because if not you, who?
And you should do it NOW, because the GOP has not, is not and will not respect conservative values, particularly on the border. They don't now, and they never, ever will.

It's dead, Jim.
Don't stay chained to a corpse.
Use your control of this amazing network, this FreeRepublic, and create an American Conservative Party overnight.