I haven’t ever been a strong advocate for a third party.
That may be changing.
Perhaps not yet, but I am listening to a growing number of people who have nearly given up on the Republican party. It seems that, like America, the Republican Party is being destroyed from within. Establishment leaders are quick to blame those on the right for daring to question the policies and people who do not line up with the principles of the party platform. They insist that confronting or questioning our “leaders” is somehow causing the party to crumble. So, we should just “go along” as we are “led” in the wrong direction? I think not.
It has always intrigued me how the big tent policy welcomes liberals with open arms, while marginalizing and ostracizing those on the right. John McCain and John Boehner are embraced, while Ted Cruz and Ron Paul are ridiculed.
Left-leaning Republicans like former South Dakota Governor/now candidate for US Senate likes to use the term “professional dissenters” to describe anyone who would question his politics. Never mind that he left the state with a deficit of $127 million dollars, increased the size of state government exponentially, vetoed the first abortion ban and ushered in government-run health care to mention a few. Terms like “professional dissenters” refer to Republicans who actually believe the Republican party platform is a good one, and should be followed by Republican leaders.
If there were to be a third party, I suspect it would have a platform that looks very much like the current Republican party platform.
The difference might be that they would follow it.
***Gordon Howie is a nationally syndicated author, host of Liberty Today TV and CEO of Life and Liberty Media***
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“It has always intrigued me how the big tent policy welcomes liberals with open arms, while marginalizing and ostracizing those on the right.”
You and me both. And that is precisely what happens widely in the GOP today. There’s room in the “tent” for any style of liberal poison you can imagine…but not for people who believe unapologetic conservative values are the right way to go.
I know several people who HAD given up on the GOP and went to other small third parties prior to 2009. With the rise of the Tea Party movement (born because the Republican establishment had sold out Republican values and positions), most of them came back, believing the establishment would now, in the wake of disastrous 2006 and 2008 elections and a historic 2010 one, FINALLY GET IT.
2012 proved they didn’t get it; not only didn’t they get it, they were hostile to it.
The GOP establishment seems determined to destroy the party. Though I’ve called myself a Republican since I was 13, I wouldn’t give a rip at this point, were it not for the fact that with no major party to fight for American values, they are dragging my beloved country down with their corruption.
May God have mercy on us all.