Re: A 3rd Party?
Chris clearly seems to think that it is the way.
Yet history shows otherwise.
Ross Perot started a 3rd party. He got enough votes to get matching funds on the next election... his was the first in a while as well (iirc).
He put huge amounts of money into building the backbone of this new party. He. Further worked on it after the election.
His was an actual break with the party, I voted for him.
I don't care that Bush lost... I to felt lkke Chris.
But then the Libertarians came. They who can never succeed saw an organization with matching funds, a flushed up set of coffers, and a naive group of voters who were not prepared for the parlimentary tricks of the libertarians.
The Libertarians won control of the party, they remade it in their image. They ran their candidate celebrity using it and they lost. Not only did they lose but they lost the matching funds as wll.
People had abandoned the new party and gave up on it when he Libertaians started their takeover. Why would I vote to legalize drugs... or to withdraw our troops from everywhere?
The Libertarians remain an albatross upon any third party effort stemming from the Conservative side of things.
While they remain trying parlamentary ideas to foist their ideas upon an unwilling 97% of the nation we can never see an end to liberalism.
If the Libertarians left enmass we could either make a third party or completely coopt the Republican Party back to our ideals. I suspect it would be a successful third party.
But Chris... you know, I know.... they won't let us. They would rather lose every fight than let the Conservatives win. They would rather keep hitting us thinking it helps them, than go and play their own game alone. Without us they have nothing. They would never get past 3% of the vote, they would never get anything done and they hate it. So they stick to us like glue.
Chris it would take a mere 10,000 upset and angry Conservatives like you to win over the various States and the Federal party of the Republican Party.
We would set party policy, we would be the ones talking issues, we would be the ones dictating who gets funds from the party.
That many grass roots people would also mean an organized gotv and candidate assistance set up to beat down the Democrats and RINOs combined.
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