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Something is dramatically wrong that many of our Tea party pats and most congresspeople seem corrupt after a few years in dc. We need a new bunch of reps that can’t be corrupted to in charge up there if this country is to survive.
Maybe we could start with Ben Carson and Sarah Palin.

It starts with the elections themselves. The fund-raising is the avenue to Hell. By the time they are ensconced in their cozy Cap Hill digs, their votes are already bought and paid for.

There have been some candidates who have run for office on very little money. In Maryland we had a guy who is (strangely enough) liberal and yet almost completely in line with the Tea Party who got 20,000 Dem votes in the Senate primary a few years ago, spending $450 on his campaign.

The guy who won in Virginia was outspent by orders of magnitude as was the guy in the special Fla. election. They both won.

The money thing CAN BE circumvented. No one knows exactly how just yet but just consider this—

If Sarah Palin were to run for president she would already have between 30 and 35 percent of the vote without spending a dime. So how do you get the magical next 16 to 21 percent without selling out to special interests?

I’m saying there IS a way. (I just don’t know what it is.)

I’m saying there IS a way. I just don’t know what it is.

Maybe Bratt from Va. has the formula. I'll tell ya someone else who has the formula. It's our very own Gary Bray. He has it down and has already proved it will work! We probably need to pick his brain a little bit more.

If Sarah Palin were to run for president she would already have between 30 and 35 percent of the vote without spending a dime. So how do you get the magical next 16 to 21 percent without selling out to special interests?

By standing for something. The current Republican Party has lost substance. They still play the same ole rhetoric -- lower taxes, smaller government, yada yada yada. "Read my lips" and Medicare Drug bill and formation of the MASSIVE Homeland Security Dept nullify that.

A candidate who could effectively stand for conservative values could easily pick up a large number of the ole Reagan/Blue Dog Democrats. They still hold on to their party identity because of family tradition, not because they like the direction the Dem Party has been going to last half-century.

Several 3rd parties have had strong candidates, but those parties were formed around those strong candidates. When those candidates faltered, the party lost.

The two major political parties only have about 25% of the voter pool as their members. That leaves around 50% who identify themselves as independents -- some leaning Democratic, some leading Republican, some leaning Libertarian, some just complete nutcases.

A 3rd party? We know voting for the same and expecting a different result doesn't work. The only difference between the 2 major parties is the speed at which they are fundamentally changing the foundation of the United States of America.