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Vote out the Democrats and give the Republicans a conservative mandate. Dump the Democrats and keep dumping them and both parties will get the message that it's time for the pendulum to start swinging back to the right. It's over full-tilt to the left now.

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Vote out the Democrats and give the Republicans a conservative mandate. Dump the Democrats and keep dumping them and both parties will get the message that it's time for the pendulum to start swinging back to the right. It's over full-tilt to the left now.
# 271 by Jim Robinson

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The only way that could be true is if the Republican Party itself was composed of leftists; Republicans are in control of our government today.

If you're right, the only chance we have is to dump the Republican Party and en masse adopt a third party as our own.

I'm willing to follow your lead, Jim. Constitutional Party, Libertarian, whatever, as long as it's conservative.

Say the word.

I believe that a party composed of politically aware, activist conservatives would draw a massive amount of grassroot support.

Bush has done nothing for conservatism. The legislation he has signed on his watch would have outraged this forum had the signee had been Al Gore. In fact the 'Patriot Act', a huge and complicated volume of new laws and civil liberty restrictions had to have been prepared long before G.W. came to the White House. How else could it have come before Congress within a week of 911? Yet Congress claimed ignorance of its contents even as thy voted it into law. Who wrote the Act? For all we know it could've been written by minions of Bill Clinton.
But nobody asks.

Diehard Republicans such as myself worked hard to convince third party conservatives to vote for Bush in the last election. And we were sucessfull for the most part. There was no Perot factor in that election. Yet nationwide, the GOP only managed to draw a plurality of the vote. A much closer election than anyone thought it would be.

I think the GOP has lost the crossover third party vote. It may be possible to make those votes up with war time democrats and hispanics but we are talking about having to replace as much as 12 to 19 percent of the conservative vote. The majority of people support the President in his war efforts. Whether that translates into votes for the GOP remains to be seen. Democrats vote in lockstep. They do not allow themselves to be swayed from their course by any mere principals. A lot of Republicans will have to adopt that mindset to be able to vote for this Presidents re-election.