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Gallup: 52% of Republicans Say America Needs a 3rd Party
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| 10/11/2013
| Terry Jeffery
Posted on 10/11/2013 10:41:08 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: thoughtomator 2.0
That’s it in a nutshell.
Anyone who understands math knows our future is rapidly being destroyed. That we can’t magically continue to do what we’re doing without the consequences ever coming due...
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posted on
10/11/2013 12:40:13 PM PDT
by
DB
To: JRandomFreeper
If 52% of the Republicans don't like the Republican Party, then the Republican Party is a dead horse.
I went to the original Gallup poll cited in the OP. Reading the results there,this is a realistic time to bulldoze the GOPe out of the way. Independents, as usual, strongly support a third party, but 52% of Republicans that are willing to abandon their party is a real death rattle.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx TWB
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posted on
10/11/2013 12:42:40 PM PDT
by
TWhiteBear
(Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
To: Kansas58
Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math. If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?
This is the essential truth, like it or not. The path is to take over the Republican party and push out the RINOs, not try a Third Party. Those of us who went Tea Party at the beginning knew this would takes years and many election cycles.
To: JRandomFreeper
Free Republic has yet to jump off the GOP merry-go-round, somehow they think going in circles for decades is going to change the Republican Party.
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posted on
10/11/2013 12:51:08 PM PDT
by
roses of sharon
("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
To: Kansas58
“Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.
If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?”
40% conservative, 30% independent, 30% communist.
3-way, winner takes all. It is, in fact, the ONLY way we can win.
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posted on
10/11/2013 12:59:05 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: melancholy
Prince of FOOLS!
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:01:25 PM PDT
by
caww
To: roses of sharon
There are plenty on FR that will berate you if you say you aren't going to vote for the offered liberal(R).
/johnny
To: Jim Noble; onyx
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:02:26 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Jim Noble; onyx
Sorry, here it is..
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:03:36 PM PDT
by
caww
To: JRandomFreeper
There are plenty on FR that will berate you if you say you aren't going to vote for the offered liberal(R).
They are fighting a losing battle. The Democratic wing of the Republican party is toast. The people staying home aren't coming back. And no amount of berating will make any difference.
To: Kansas58
"This keeps up and Im not sticking around to watch it happen," Palin said.
Pretty straightforward to me. Change your ways or I'm outta here.
Don't forget, she's flirted with 3rd parties in the past. And she's far more libertarian-leaning than the Scoop Jackson democrats that run the GOP-e these days.
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:10:07 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: 98ZJ USMC
Fakes such as these "idiots" who mask as republicans are equally to blame, if not moreso!
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:10:08 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Kansas58
..."If you do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, how on Earth are you going to win when EVERYONE votes in the General Election?.........EXACTLY!
And then there are these..
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:17:20 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Kazan
A third party guarantees Democrats will control forever.
Forget it!
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:19:00 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: Amendment10
There is no way a third party will garner the voters to win...none....the public now is all about Personality Cult Politics and all the fluffy emotions they bring with it.
Further it's entirely a "give me" society. You have all the youth voters/ the minorities voting for whoever gives them the most entitlements. Who think no further then how to get the latest trendy item on their docket of wants..... You cannot just change the party without also changing the mindset of the public
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:25:59 PM PDT
by
caww
To: AzSteven
You’re looking at it in intra-party terms and I don’t disagree with your analysis. I was commenting on the effects of Bush’s governance (or lack thereof) on the electorate. I won’t do the laundry list of his blunders, but they were legion, so much so that he destroyed the party’s brand on the national level.
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:38:18 PM PDT
by
pluvmantelo
(We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism-Lenin)
To: Kazan
Don’t want a third party if all it will do is split the vote and throw the election to the Demonrats. It would have to be a party that would appeal mightily to Republicans and Independents because Demos won’t go for it.
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:38:57 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: luvbach1
This is the party now....obvious where the problem is for conservatives
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:43:08 PM PDT
by
caww
To: elpadre
<...”A third party guarantees Democrats will control forever”....>
Yes, and the demorats have been staunch at dividing the party...from the looks of this thread it’s working.
There has to be another way and I think that Cruz is showing us how to do that.....along with Lee.
These negotiations on the debt etc. (bottom line Obamacare) both Cruz and Lee are trying to show the Republicans you cannot let the demorats breath....that you have to keep the boot on their necks.
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:49:33 PM PDT
by
caww
To: caww
The cartoon in your post #98 does sum it up accurately. So is the answer to position the party midway between the two poles? Don’t think so.
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posted on
10/11/2013 1:49:57 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
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