Posted on 08/05/2014 8:53:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is 3 years old!
Voters leaving Republican, Democratic parties in droves
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Updated 12/22/2011 8:40 PM
•WASHINGTON – More than 2.5 million voters have left the Democratic and Republican parties since the 2008 elections, while the number of independent voters continues to grow.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-22/voters-political-parties/52171688/1
Thank you.
So you intend to improve on human nature?
You intend to form a party that is immune to pride and anger and self interest and stupidity and disloyalty?
Good luck with that!
Any new Party will consist of human beings with the same failings at the current GOP.
You mean like in Mississippi? Oh, wait...
“However? If we can’t win in Republican primaries, how on Earth are we going to win in a General Election when all the Commies are voting too?”
Which brings me to the story of the insanely angry person, full of resentment, full of victimhood, who decides to end it all with suicide.
“I’ll show them,” he threatens, and pulls the trigger.
Vote for what? Who? The Romney campaign crapped on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and evangelical Christians. That was the most stupid thing they could have done, diss the very people who make up the GOTV, grass roots, boots on the ground conservatives. It's no wonder he lost. I'm sorry but the current Republican party is DEAD!
If Sarah was Commander and Chief, even at 65 years of age I would consider going back to the Navy. The have done away my rate of Radioman and probably would not pass the physical but for Sarah, I would give her the old John Paul Jones try!
If not now then when? Most of us *gopes and donkeys* have given great thought as to whom will get our vote in 2 years. As an oath has been taken to never vote for the ass, and due to the fact the gope has behaved like an ass, another oath taken to vote for gope ONLY if a candidate earns the vote by standing for the same values held dear to the heart.
Sarah would be the one to spearhead such a Conservative Party. With Trey Gowdy, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert, Tim Scott, Alabama’s Sessions, Gov Walker, Dr. Carson, to name just a few. There are countless more with big names and not so big names, but they are out there. Steve Baldwin, brother of Alec, has certainly stated where he would land. If not now, then when? This might be the only opportunity we have other than shouting the buck stops here, and take matters into our own hands in a reenactment of the American Revolution. Both parties have voters who are searching for something different No dynasties, no incumbents. New faces and new beginnings.
Talk is the beginning. The second step would be commitment and the faith in ourselves to be so bold.
Conservatives did lose to incumbents this round of primaries, but this was only the beginning. Conservatives won a few in ousting out the gope/asses This might be the last chance we have to save our Nation.
The only alternative would be to dig a hole, jump in, and cover ourselves for the next few eons only peeking out to see the current state of affairs. And frankly, this entity would not enjoy living this way. As Mr. Henry would say “Give me liberty or give me death.”
By the way, the gope party is dead. They shot themselves in the state of Mississippi.
Canada did it. The old Progressive Conservative party which was very similar to today’s GOP and I think was in existence about as long as Canada itself was wiped out and replaced (technically merged) by a much more conservative one.
It took time though.
I'm not a republican. Have not been for years and years. That's the way it's been with many Freepers, so it's not a real change.
No need to have an “ultra-conservative” third party. Simply being mainstream conservative will do.
There is one factor that is often overlooked when people try to calculate how a genuinely viable third party that looked to take away significant numbers of voters from the GOP would effect the dynamics of elections.
That factor is the millions of conservative, independent voters who have basically "dropped out, tuned out" from the electoral process altogether because of their despair the GOP ever amounting anything, etc. One only has to look at the pattern in growth of total voters in the presidential elections to see that there are increasing numbers of "missing" voters, who should have been there to match population growth, but yet who are not.
Provide those people with a viable alternative and get them engaged again, and you can have a viable third party that really does have a shot at replacing the GOP.
A FReeper on another, recent thread made an interesting categorization — the Republican left and the Republican right.
Define each...with the Roves, Prebius’, McRomney’s, etc, being the left and the Ted Cruz’ being the right.
They can all represent the party, but with a true distinction....nothing to hide behind at campaign - or legislation vote time.
Vote for anyone who is the best of the bunch. Reagan is dead, y’all.
Exactly. The reason we only have 30-50% voter participation isn't just because of pothead slackers and the like.
“Reagan is dead, y’all.”
So is Ted Kennedy. So what? You need a new transmission, sister.
Shouldn’t people vote for the best candidate instead of not voting? Just heard too many here say they didn’t vote and America now has the worst administration in its history and the Constitution is an historical document without any power. Not that the Constitution protects us from tyranny. Seems kind of lame in that regards.
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