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To: libdestroyer; All
Read this post on a constitution party forum. The guy makes a good point
The Prohibition Party "spoiled" the Republicans in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1916. After it happened the second time, in 1916, the Republicans decided they were sick of losing presidential elections because of the Prohibition Party, and in 1917 they passed the prohibition amendment to the US Constitution. That amendment had been sitting in Congress in every session since 1875, and had never before made any headway. So sometimes "spoiling" is an effective technique for a minor party and its adherents to exert some power.
252 posted on 06/08/2012 12:24:56 PM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: libdestroyer

Amen! There’s more than one way of winning politically than, just, voting for the candidates that you believe come closest to your political beliefs. Other politicians and other political parties, truly, adapting the same solutions that are brought up by individual conservative candidates is a victory, too! Put “9-9-9” into the national platform of the GOP for ‘12 and beyond, as one example. I, truly, don’t see Mitt Romney, ever, becoming an actual conservative POTUS. Mitt is in the race for POTUS for himself and to attempt to make up for his dad not, ever, becoming POTUS. Mitt will, probably, stay a RINO for life, no matter how hard people will try to make Mitt become a true conservative, but I, and most other conservatives, many Libertarians, and some moderates, do hope that we are, really, very wrong about this prediction. There’s something very, very wrong, whenever the final GOP choice for POTUS turns out to be a RINO, over and over and over again.


270 posted on 06/08/2012 10:58:05 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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