If there is to be an effective uprising, my guess is that it will come from within the GOP. Certainly there is a struggle for control of the Republican Party — but, our best hope is winning that struggle.
Third Party candidates simply won’t be taken seriously enough. They may play spoiler — but I doubt they’re contenders.
SnakeDoc
I’d love to see a viable 3rd party emerge as well, but I feel it has to start at the local level and build a solid foundation first. Perot, Nader, Barr, etc...have been joke campaigns, with no realistic shot at even making a marginal splash in the polls.
Imagine a new conservative party that could get a dozen or so House seats and 2-3 in the Senate. Certainly not enough to legislate independently, but more than enough to exert pressure on the Republicans to toe the line, and the party will grow and grow from there.
Right there. The major problem is a third party sucks votes from the Republican party since both parties relies on conservative issues. The Republican party needs a clean sweep of RINO's and needs to establish a clear and clean "contract for America" attitude and it might just crack a little of the huge King Obama machine.
spoil what? the GOP hasn't done anything good for us for years. It's already spoiled. It so spoiled it stinks! The GOP has thrown us all under the bus. We need to start over from scratch. The GOP and the RATS are one and the same. They're just pretending they have differences. Just look at the number of RINO's. It's growing not shrinking. Staying in bed with the GOP is a bad idea. We have no choice but to take a chance. It may be our last chance. We have nothing to lose anymore. Even if a third party doesn't win, (and it won't) it may do better than Perot did. And cause some on the hill to squirm and worry about their future viability. I'm going for it because we're getting nowhere with the GOP. Well i take that back, we're getting somewhere. The same somewhere the RATS are going.
Third Parties usually cost the GOP the election.