I don’t think the media understands that a lot of Republicans are glad Spector switched sides. He sure wasn’t doing the Republicans any good. Of course, not many Republicans are doing the party any good. We just need a true conservative party.
Agreed. I feel the Republican party is trying hard to distance itself from it's Christian members, so as to be the Thrifty Atheist party. I'm pretty tired of feeling like a political outcast because I believe in Jesus. If there was a party that basically held to what the Founding Fathers had in mind, I'd be all for it, especially if it had a shot as a legitimate 3rd party.
I challenge you to make one.
When is last time you interviewed your legislative district's candidates that were seeking your line on the ballot?
I don't mean to excoriate you personally as much as everyone just reading your post and sitting there saying yeah that's what we need,without doing anything to make it so.
“We just need a true conservative party”.
We just need to make the GOP true to conservatism. I don’t think any party can ever again pull off what the Republicans did against the Whigs. The two parties in power are just too researched and calculating to not handle the complaints of a 3rd party and respond to them. Yes, it doesn’t seem like it but we simply don’t have the rifts that caused the civil war. Any and every idea that a 3rd party brings to the table will be absorbed by one or both of the other two parties in a watered down version. We need to get off the 3rd party mantra and focus on the GOP. We may lose some here and there. Some pundits are pissed at Toomey. He may lose but so what if he does? We need the GOP to run to us, not the other way around. We need to offer the biggest voting block(independents, and they are the only growing voting block) a clear, concise and better alternative. Stick with the GOP and make it a better more conservative GOP.