[deport]

Do you think the answer is to continue trying to clean up the Republican Party?

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I truly don’t know what the answer is. But I do know that if you can’t get control of the existing party then I don’t see how in hell you can expect to be a force with something much smaller.

3rd parties:

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_(United_States)

[trappedincanuckistan]

I don’t know what the answer is either.

[Once-Ler]

But I do know that if you can’t get control of the existing party then I don’t see how in hell you can expect to be a force with something much smaller.

Every so often there is a nugget of wisdom on FR.

[exhaustedmomma]

The Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan. In Federalist Papers No. 9 and No. 10, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively, wrote specifically about the dangers of domestic political factions.

The need to win popular support, well, did it just murk up the original intent... maybe that's what Franklin meant when he said, "A republic, if you can keep it."