We don’t need a 3rd party. We need a 2nd party.
If third parties are going to be successful, they must do better than perot and nader....
Tell that to Mr. Cuccinnelli.
The name is always the selling point. Just “The Reagan Party” might do that.
>> It is and it will force GOP candidates to be more conservative in order to get the endorsement.
If we create a viable third party, it can’t be to force the GOP to shift right. The purpose of the third party must be to replace the non-Progressive portion of the GOP and to bring in the non-Progs in the Democrat party as well.
If we create a third party to act as a threat to the GOP, then it is doomed from the start. The GOP must die as a national party. Eventually, the goal would be to push the ideological Progressives of both parties to merge into one and then we can start having the real debate that this country needs: Progressives vs Nationalists.
While the situation you describe is encouraging, I just don’t see it translating to the national stage. not saying don’t try, but I see the republican vote being split.
You can look to last Tuesday in Virginia, where a third party Libertarian pulled enough votes away to give a Democrat a victory.
A third party now, when conservatives are close to taking over the Republican party, would be a disaster.
Instead, conservatives should pitch to Libertarians that they will get more of what they want from conservatives than they ever would from liberal-leftists.
And if the Libertarians join with conservatives to overthrow the current Republican leadership, conservatives would likely reward them with more than expected liberty.
People are Republicans for all kinds of reasons and none of us agree on everything. It will be the same with a 3rd party. For some reason only the Left is capable of uniting all their factions into a voting block. We sit around and demonize everyone who is labeled un-pure.
You're no help.
A national Conservative party might endorse the GOP candidate or run someone else. Voters could register either way and may the best party win. Doesn’t have to be either-or unless the GOP runs someone unacceptable.
If our nation is to live, we need a party that does not include McCain.
Call it Tea, call you what you want.
RINO’s must be voted out.
Can you hear me now Cornyn?
Agree! But, it will make a quicker and bigger ascension of the Democrat party much more pronounced and lethal!
Maybe.
But it would be FATAL TO AMERICA AND THE CONSTITUTION.
I think Ross Perot said the same thing.
GOP no longer represents the conservative cause adequately.
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One of the greatest fear folks have is going out on their own.. Leaving behind that which had served it so well for so long, ‘til tomorrow dawns, some folks ought not worry about being alone, at home or in the gulag.
If those elected to be doing the job say they are, yet the results are dismal, what do you do? Election after election..
as Perot pined, I’m all ears! So says a bunch of folks..
GiDDYUP!
Elections are irrelevant.
Casting votes are now irrelevant.
Cook County went national, so it does not matter what party one belongs - the Ruling Class will choose who rules.
And when the Ruling Class does not like whomever might by some miracle be “elected” - they will strip them of power and make them irrelevant as well.
We’ve gone Soviet, and most are stuck in Normalcy Bias mode.
Ah the strange machinations of New York politics where there are 4 standing parties Republican, Liberal, Conservative, and Democrat (socialist). NYC has been a hotbed of socialism dating back to Marx and the Democrat party is their home. The republicans are basically the Nelson Rockefeller, Teddy Roosevelt country club variety. The Conservatives are mostly that just not very big and the Liberal are more of the classic variety not the government at all costs version. There are other parties that spring up regularly thanks to the tiny number of signatures needed to gain ballot access. There are Republicans who have run on that line and the Liberal line the most notable recent example being Mr. Mayor Rudy Giuliani. This seems to work for NY and brings some different voices to the fore. I doubt our nation of low information voters is ready for nationwide roll-out.
I would be happy with one party that believed in constitutional limited government.
After we get one, then we can worry about getting a second one.
It is easier to take over half of half, than to build up an entire party from nothing. Even the Republicans started as a majority based on coopting the Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats.