“...Time for a third party...”
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Which would accomplish...
...what was that again?
I can’t remember.
it must take a lot of balls to keep hanging onto the Republican “dream”...
Advances for conservatism, defeat of progressives of either party. I am so sick of those who refuse to consider the possibility of a new party rising from the ashes of the GOP. Ross Perot was ahead in the polls after 3 months of campaigning, until he exposed himself as a lunatic. A third party would not need to be a suicide mission. It would run in strategically targeted races against candidates that need to be defeated with candidates that can win. In South Carolina, the party can endorse a conservative Republican to take out Goober in a runoff. In a state like Arizona with open primaries where McCain wins with Democrat votes, the party can run a conservative under its own banner. In the Presidential election, the party can field its own candidate. It can endorse conservative Republicans and run against progressive Republicans. In Congress, they can caucus with Republicans, and have greater leverage to get powerful committee chairmanships.
In other words, it would work like a parliamentary system where there are often 3 or more major parties and one group tries to put together a governing coalition. It would be interesting to see if the GOPe preferred to govern with conservatives or Democrats. I think they like Democrats better, and are really the "go-slow" wing of the progressive movement. It really is not about Democrat vs. Republican. It is Progressive vs. Conservative, and when you realize that, you realize that it really doesn't matter much if a Mitch McConnell loses his race. If he runs the Senate, there is no way in hell he will ever vote to repeal Obamacare in a vote that will matter. There is no way in hell he won't vote for amnesty if it is going to pass and his vote is needed. So why do we care about him versus a truthful Democrat? Same crap, different cronies.