Maybe it’s time for spring cleaning. Too bad it’s not up for a vote.

The GOP was a third party comprised of disillusioned Whigs because the Whig Party refused to support its own Party platform, much like the GOP does today.

I, also, left the Constitution Party.

For those interested I am looking into the American Conservative Party, they MIGHT be promising, we’ll see.

http://theamericanconservatives.org/cms/

Read some Abe Lincoln and the original Republicans … THIS is a party to be emulated. Constitutionally-based and anti-slavery. The Dems were the slavery party then and are the slavery party now (although the plantation fields are now called “inner cities).

To tell you how bad I thought the 3rd parties are (Constitution and Conservative), I checked them out and came back to McShamnesty (Bob Barr, you look like a MORON with that mustache!).

Now, let’s take BACK the Repub Party. If you’re like me, you’ve concentrated on family and jobs, but let local politics fall through the cracks.

I’m going to an Act! for America (www.actforamerica.org) Training Workshop this month and one of the topics is “The do’s and don’ts of an effective campaign for local office.”

I’ve never done anything like this before in my life, but you know, I was wrong.

If the tree of liberty is not nurtured with H2O it will eventually have to be “watered” with blood.

Hardcore? go to http://www.ACCDF.com (The American Constitution & Capitalism Defense Front).

Let’s roll….get off the couch.

Allahpundit

Guaranteed to induce dry heaves.

We need somebody with more money and more brains than, er, Ross Perot to bankroll it, though. Otherwise, it’s toast. Who would our financier be? Steve Forbes?

If you all Conservatives are serious about flirting with the Third Party idea, how about starting by supporting Libertarian candidates when no Republican is on the ballot?

Hell, we Libertarian Republicans, can’t even get our Conservative buddies to support us on this. Remember 2006, and the Tom DeLay fiasco? Bob Smithers, Libertarian was still on the ballot, but local Houston Republicans balked at supporting him, even though Smithers pledged to “serve with the Republican Caucus.”

Result: We lost a GOP Cong. seat for two years.

Then there was Alaska in ’08. Ditto. A Libertarian was still on the ballot for US Senate for the Stevens seat.

If Republicans supported the occasional Libertarian when no GOPer was on the ballot, the Libertarians would be MUCH MORE OPEN, to supporting the GOP in some key elections.

This is so true. The Constitution was shredded a long time ago, and it’s time to get this country back to that document that was Divinely inspired. I’m a registered independent, Libertarian in philosophy. The current two parties are the same. The Democrats are a lying disgrace, pushing for complete repudiation of the Constitution. The Republicans make me sick. Smaller government? I’m 45 years old, and have never seen them shrink government at all. I supported Bush because of the foreign attack and threat. I did not support him doubling the size of government and government spending. He was a Progressive, plain and simple. Bring back the Constitution, we’re not America without it………….

I’m talking to you, Remington.

We need to be ready by the mid-terms to throw the bums out. Also, in my state we have closed primaries and even independents cannot vote, let alone a 3rd party. Thats the reason I will not register independent….which I had wanted to.

There really isn’t a party that reflects my values. In my opinion the Republicans are just less dangerous than Democrats. Because they “suck less” is really the only reason I vote for their candidates. Democrats seem to be pretty much about actually doing exactly the opposite of what they talk about. All their pandering toward minorities, for example, is really about keeping the minorities marginalized and dependent on government programs. All their pandering toward “workers” is really about extracting extra cash from those workers in the form of union dues that go to their political campaigns.

There just isn’t a party that reflects my views. I want a “personal responsibility” party. A party that isn’t afraid to say “gee, that’s too bad, better suck it up and get on with your life or you might starve to death”.

I want a party that isn’t afraid to say things like … illiteracy is a personal decision. At some point in every illiterate person’s life, they made the choice not to learn to read. It was offered, they didn’t take it, they should suffer the consequences of it … *I* shouldn’t suffer the consequences of their poor decisions.

How about the “screw-em” party. The “You advance yourself or you get left behind” party.

Kick out all the RINO’s and call it the Conservative Party!

No, start up the Conservative Party let the RINOs stay in the “Republicrat” Party or just be honest, do away with the Republican party and call them ALL Democrats.

I agree with you. As the percentage of Americans who pay no taxes increases with time, the campaign slogan of “lower taxes” or “fiscal conservatism” simply does not resonate anymore with many voters, like it once did.

I always hated that term. Either be Conservative or don’t be. Democrats are sometimes “fiscal conservative”. They belong in the DNC not GOP. Our party should be based on the Constitution it has worked for over 200 years but terms like that have destroyed the GOP. We need to end Political Correctness once and for all and stand for our basic principals which are very Politically Incorrect. We are a Christian Nation. We need to support christian principals and fight like crazy to get God back in to politics. Only God can save us after all we can do.

Liberals used terms like “fiscal conservative” and “social conservative” to take God down. They have murdered God. His name is no longer acceptable in “civil society”. God will not take that for long mark my word. God created this nation and will punish it if it transgresses too far.

In the last fifty years everything that was once evil has become just fine and normal. Everything that was good has become evil. Don’t you dare criticize someone for fornication, adultery, sodomy, or even genocide (if you are a Muslim terrorist). Buy you are evil if you pray to God in the name of Jesus. You are evil if you work against gay marriage.

There wouldn’t be 3 parties for long.

But which would survive. With Steele in charge the new party would most likely survive. The GOP as it is now can not possibly last. The DNC sent their members into our party and completely destroyed it. Steele is a prime example. RINO to the core.

You are dreaming to think the GOP is savable it is simply a weak version of the DNC now days. Corrupt to the core with RINO’s.

steele better get to work fixing the primary election problem

Surly you jest. Steele loves that McCain won which means he might someday. I’m from MD trust me Steele is far more liberal than conservative just like McCain a Liberal Conservative is other words RINO.

The guys in power positions are the ones responsible for the rise of the left to power and have to go one way or another. The republican party is over.

peacenprosperity on April 2, 2009 at 10:20 PM

Exactly. They p**s me off with there condescending spinelessness.