They get one more chance.
Posted on 01/05/2015 3:36:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Fox News contributor and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.
“The alienation among Republican voters is so high,” says Caddell, that conservatively “a quarter to one-third of the Republican party are hanging by a thread from bolting.” Caddell argues that GOP voters’ attitudes are “so anti-establishment,” and they give Republican leadership poor ratings.
The revelation comes on the heels of polling data supervised by Caddell Associates and reported on Friday by Breitbart News that a stupefying 60% of Republicans who voted in the November elections either definitely or probably want someone other than Ohio Congressman John Boehner to be the Speaker of the House.
Caddell, who sharpened his teeth as a political consultant and pollster for President Jimmy Carter in 1976, has developed a reputation for being a straight shooting analyst, often criticized by his own party for predicting negative outcomes for Democrats.
His latest poll shows that Republican voters are reaching a tipping point and may have had enough of GOP lawmakers’ feckless leadership and constant submission to President Obama’s policies.
A frequent guest on the Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot radio program on channel 125, Caddell said that he will be releasing a new survey on Monday of 600 Republican identifiers or independents who voted Republican in November. In what Caddell refers to as a “stunner,” only 16% want “both” Boehner and imminent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to be their leaders.
Moreover, according to the survey, two-thirds agreed with the statement that “John Boehner has been ineffective in opposing Obama.”
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No thread. I’m gone.
If Mark Levin announced he was reregistering as something other than Republican it would start a stampede that would be impossible to count.
Too bad it can’t also be happening in the Senate. These people need to start representing their voters again and not the establishment.
I’m one. Cruz and Palin could start a third party on their own at this point.
I left a few years ago...the writing was on the wall...the GOP are a bunch of greedy morons.
Bring on the Liberty Party!
Already gone.
I’ll only fill in a spot for a Republican if he is of the Ted Cruz/Reagan mold.
Otherwise, I write-in or vote third party for the strongest Conservative I bequeath my much cherished vote.
The Oligarchy can pound sand. They are tyrants anyways.
I didn’t let go, my hands were stomped on.
bump
So what. Some things never change.
I bolted in ‘12. So did my vote. So did my money. Guess which one they call about?
What would it take to get the new party started? I truly believe there would be a membership of 10’s of millions within a week.
I am a conservative, and generally vote Republican if I have to, although I’d vote third party if it was Jeb, Myth, or Christie.
They get one more chance.
The only thing that can *possibly* hold it together is for Boehner to Begone. Tomorrow.
This is my first Ditto.
I would not change a word of your post.
About??? It ought to have ask how many did not donate this last cycle to the GOPe? That would have been the tell of the tape.
Personally, I would not donate a half a bucket of hot mule piss to the GOP.
only a third?
What we need to do is lobby our state legislatures to all “electoral fusion” (where a candidate can be nominated by more than 1 political party).
It would set up a system in some states where a 3rd Conservative political party would be easier to establish.
Plus then it would be possible for Conservative members of Congress, State Leg, etc.. to switch officially (while still being supported by Republicans some of the time).
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