Hooooooo Baby!
Posted on 01/23/2008 1:05:47 PM PST by gbscott1954
I was sitting here thinking something that I have thought before several times in recent months. The Republican Party began as a third party championing the cause of abolition and westward expansion. Just was wondering some of your thoughts about if it is time to begin thinking about a new true conservative party dedicated to true conservative principles?
Not sure the GOP is the party of conservatives and if it ever was.
Lincoln certainly wasn't a conservative and the conservative movement is ridiculed and marginalized to this day by the majority of GOP politicians.
My point will be proved when either MYTH or McInsane get the nomination or run together.
At that point it will be clear that the GOP is broken and may not be fixable.
There is no reason to be a Republican if they do the same thing as the democrats.
People are deluding themselves when they say Obama/KLinton will be worse when in fact there will be no difference.
NO MATTER WHO WINS, taxes will go up, a socialized medicine mandate enforced by the IRS will be instituted, assault weapons ban will be signed, gay marriage will be forced upon all states, enhanced hate and thought crime legislation will be enacted, government spending will continue to increase and we will cut and run in the WOT which will be portrayed by the MYTHSTER or KLINTOON as BUSH'S fault.
In light of the above it makes a lot of sense to withhold all support from the GOP and start anew, a task much easier today than in the past due to the internet and websites such as this.
I will be changing my party affiliation to independent and would welcome suggestions on a name for a new party that all conservatives could support in lieu of and to counter the Republicans.
?Where HAVE you been for the past 30 years. What do you think the so-called Democrat Party now is?
They have spent the past 30 years, deliberately and with instructions, infiltrated and taken over the party.
The last true democrat walking out the door was Zell - and the last semi-democrat was Lieberman -
Those now in charge of the party are card carrying Socialists = reality.
Politics is politics and if you think you can rewrite the rules in your favor you're better off working for the tinfoil crowd and leave the real work to the adults.
I don't like it any better than you do but thems the facts.
That guy with the beard.
I see White House in his future.
*see post #36
I was sitting here just before going to bed, lamenting the fact that one of my socks got wet today because I stepped into too deep a puddle. See, it's been raining like a son of a gun all day.
I wonder if they make "rain socks?"
I'll have to check into that tomorrow.
ANOTHER PARTY = HITLERY WINS = ginsburg-like judges
If the Republican party is not conservative enough, then we need to convince them to be more conservative.
Listen to the MSM and listen to our leaders and they will take care of us. They will take care of us, once and for all.
yeah! we need another conservative party for liberals to slowly take over. we’ll just splinter into pieces and evaporate completely.
Sure, post your platform in bullet form, then see who agrees. After doing that you’ll see that purity = marginalization.
The Libertarians have a very precise definition of their party. And get 1% of the vote.
Learn to live with compromise.. that’s what you neeed to win.
Thank you for speaking wisdom.
Hooooooo Baby!
Anyone who got around to joining would have to be disqualified.
What shall I bring?
The decline of the Republican party is just a symptom of a broader cultural decline. You can fight it, but the very act of fighting it prevents one from seeing the humor in the slow-motion collapse of the West. And keep in mind that after every decline and fall, there is a renewal...
Shiva
Robinson Jeffers
There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky,
She killed the pigeons of peace and security,
She has taken honesty and confidence from nations and men,
She is hunting the lonely heron of liberty.
She loads the arts with nonsense, she is very cunning
Science with dreams and the state with powers to catch them at last.
Nothing will escape her at last, flying nor running.
This is the hawk that picks out the star’s eyes.
This is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan;
The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things.
Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,
Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.
She will build a nest of the swan’s bones and hatch a new brood,
Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.
But pedantry aside, there's a built in bias in US politics towards a two party system. If it prevailed a third party would just step into the shoes of one of the major parties. It wouldn't change much over time (unless some radically new issue comes up).
Best to stick around with the Republicans and pick up the pieces if things go wrong.
Fishing & Hunting & Boating Party, but that’s all.
Who IS John Galt?
I'd rather just move to Galt's Gulch and wait for the rest to commit hari kari without the movers of the country
I can sleep peacefully now. Thank you!!
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