exactly, the way to fix the situation and stick it to the RINO’s like Liz Cheney is to PRIMARY them out! (just as Liz Cheney is losing her primary bid BIG now after her vote)
OK. Without a third party, then, for me, and millions like me, there will be no party. I am through with the republicans. And as far as voting: this seems to be a waste of time.
Zactly.
We have no chance of creating a viable 3 party political structure but we could definitely create a 1 party political structure. I think I like that idea actually and it may be the only card we have left to play- give America the government it deserves.
I’ve been frustrated and “walking away” from the GOP for a long time. McCain, Romney, etc. I keep saying “I’m through”. But, in fact, I have voted a straight Republican ticket in every election since 1980. Forty years of loyalty, despite my frequent frustrations.
It’s gone. I’m done. I will not ever vote Republican again. Screw ‘em. They stabbed Donald Trump in the back and they deserve to lose. Hard. Every time. Forever.
1. Lying to voters and defrauding the party’s donors for more than seven years with its endless promises to repeal Obamacare.
2. Rigging primaries in favor of RINO/Swamp candidates over TEA Party candidates (see Mississippi 2014 as a perfect example).
3. Openly campaigning for Democrats in critical elections (Alabama in 2017, for example).
We have no reason to trust the Republican Party anymore, Kurt.
Rand Paul’s impeachment proxy vote the other day was a litmus test of how many fakes must be purged from the GOP - about 10%. That seems very doable.
Still mulling here:
Seems to me at least 50 million people would jump at the chance for a 3rd party.
There are many heritage democrats Democrats who will never vote Republican but might and probably would switch to a 3rd party.
Big inroads were made in the Hispanic and black voter blocs who could be persuaded to switch to a 3rd party. They are after MAGA, not party labels. As may of us are.
The Republicans generally proved who they are standing by while
Trump fought alone and for them. When the chips were down they mostly stood by or plotted ways to dissemble and capitulate.
And that goes for Republican legislatures who allowed the election changes that were a golden opportunity for fraud and abuse. And who are STILL not making changes to prevent it in the future.
So no...a 3rd party might be just the ticket. The Republicans rose from the ashes of the Whigs in 1854 and had captured the White House by 1860. Different times, yes but could happen again.
This is a repost of Kurt Schlichter’s poo poo on third party panicking.
This underscores one of the many problems with the GOP. They think that we only care about beating the Democrats and they are willing to compromise everything else to win. They think that they need to give us Mittens Romney to win. We get Democrat light. Donald Trump showed them how to win but they are too in love with their D.C. cocktail parties and hobnobbing with their cronies in their Washington homes to think about us, the unwashed masses that put them there. No, we don't care who wins if neither party represents us. It's not a football game.
It’s more and more clear to me that 75 million of us should join the democrat party. They wouldn’t know what hit them, nor could they handle it. We could wreck their primaries, put in a lot of conservatives, get inside the local and state committees, their conventions, etc.
And then vote for the most conservative candidates in the general.
It’s the simplest solution, and easily do-able. We just have to hold our noses.
Perhaps Curt and others should have thought about the CONSEQUENCES of telling your base that you no longer support fair elections?
Look at Impeachment 2.0 - the Republicans hated Trump so much that they forgot or maybe didn’t realize, that you need VOTERS if you want to win and hold seats, and pissing off a guy at 95% approval with those voters is NOT how you hold on to them.
Hah...Kurt (not in the BHOF) Schlichter is still under the impression that elections can work in Conservatives favor.
I switched FROM the Libertarian Party, to vote for Trump. Inthat time, I witnessed the childish acts of the Repyubs, and the insanity of the Democratic Party.
I have RETURNED to The Libertarian Party, to make sure that the insane Gary Johnson is never to soil the Party ever again.
The only office a third party might have been elected is Dog catcher"
the GOP when it had power kept ROMNEYCARE (hint:Soros,Romney)
and when they had GEOTUS they backstabbed him.
(same hint).
the GOP cannot be Trusted. <==== p <.001
Rx: the GOP deserves to die. forever.
This is hilarious. The GOP’s singular mission is to ensure the left retains control of power.
I don’t think they grasp the size of the issue. The GOP’s credibility and confidence in their ability to advocate is gone. Trump exposed and destroyed the myth that the GOP represents a) the people and b) conservatives especially.
This is not a discussion of ‘Third Party’. The discussion at hand is a REPLACEMENT of the GOP.
The GOP is like one of those effete French aristocrats who got their heads chopped off. Their eyes are still blinking and they can see and hear, but their body is on the other side of the blade.
People already grasp that there was a change in the form of government from a democratic republic to an techno-oligarchy without a vote of the people, without judicial review, without congressional debate, and outside the current constitution.
First step, admin this. Second, everyone deemed remotely responsible for this has to be cast out of the party forever. This is the only way the GOP survives.
The GOP, not the Democrats, rendered only two options: acquiesce to Socialism and rule by fiat or actively support the GOP and be party to exactly the same thing, but with the veneer of legitimate opposition.
I will never vote for the GOP ever again. At least the left is honest in their motives, which is to say I still won’t vote for Democrats.
The line was crossed, what do you expect people to do? The GOP is now in overdrive trying to convince us third parties don’t work. They just spent four years firing the only person in the GOP that was actually effective in representing conservatives and upholding the Constitution.
My advice? Stop criticizing conservative calling for a third party and start presenting a plan of action to return the GOP to a credible political party.
I have heard ZERO from the GOP and fixing themselves. They don’t even admit they have a problem.