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Let’s see here. Third way. Oh yes... Constitution party, Libertarian party. Funny thing is, both are still with us and they have a small loyal band of followers along with legions of detractors with apparently a much different idea of what “limited government” means. Where’s the Reform party? It’s gone to the same place that its Kool-aid merchant leadership has gone ...nowhere.

You use those third parties to regain control of your own party. Like the leftists used the Green Party to retake the Democratic Party.

RINO's know that you will come back for more abuse because you have "nowhere else to go".

I will vote for Reagan Republicans. When a Reagan Republican gets the nomination, then I will vote for that nominee.

You use those third parties to regain control of your own party. Like the leftists used the Green Party to retake the Democratic Party.

Interesting assertion. How precisely did Democrats who were presumably cooling their heels in the Green Party retake the Democrat party? No one here will argue that the left isn't largely in control of the Democrat party right now, but how does the Green party have more to do with the current situation than reaction to failures like Gore and Kerry and leadership from the likes of ACORN and Dean? Did the Greens keep HRC from getting the nomination? Was the reason Kerry lost because he wasn't far enough to the left? A more reasonable explanation to me is that the Gore/Clinton wing botched it while very leftmost wing of the Democrat party was the best organized and in the right place at the right time. As for Republicans, no offense, but if you think the RINO's or candidates like McCain care in the slightest about votes siphoned away by the Constitution Party and Libertarian Party, I think you're nuts. I wish they did.

I think the three real reasons for conservative successes over the past 20 years are: 1) Ronald Reagan, 2) Rush Limbaugh, and 3) Newt Gingrich. Buckley and some other figures also play prominently, but third parties just don't. If we could change the current system so that they did, it would be for the better. But control of either major party belongs to the people who are left after unfavorable election cycles. Let's hope the RINOs take all the arrows. We won't have any use for Quislings next year.