Gallup Poll: For First Time a Majority of Republicans Say Third Party Needed…
Like most people I’m sick of the Republican party not doing what it’s supposed to do, on the other hand the reality is we live in a two party system. A full-scale RINO purge is our best bet in my opinion.
(The Hill) — A majority of Republicans said for the first time that a third party was needed in American politics, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
Fifty-two percent of Republicans, and an even stronger number of Tea Party supporters, support the creation of a major, third political party, underscoring the occasional tensions between grassroots conservatives and the GOP establishment.
An overall majority of Americans, 52 percent, said that a third political party was needed; the most profound shift has come among Republicans.
The number of Republicans who said that a third political party was necessary was at an all-time high since Gallup first began tracking opinion on the issue in 2003. And while support for a third party has crept steadily upward in the GOP, for the first time, it represents a majority opinion.
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It is broke.
Relax, patriots. Palin to the rescue.
With the way congress listens to its constituents, I’d say we are within two presidential elections for the emergence of a bonafide conservative third party. Mit Romney will be the GOP nominee. It’s his turn….remember? What idiots.
Some think this would guarantee a win for Obama in 2012, but, is there any consensus that a number of Dems would also defect? Because, right now, the GOP is it’s own worst enemy. They are trashing their own candidates, trying to tell the people who to choose, and I still blame the GOP blue bloods for keeping the Senate from changing hands. We had a bunch of poor losers who would rather keep the Dems in controll, than throw their support behind someone they lost to. Christine O’Donnell comes to mind.
To pass ObamaCare, election manipulation was being planned, long before the elections took place. Ted Stevens was framed, partly because he was old, and an easy target; later exonerated. Al Franken got “votes from heaven” and after a thorough investigation, which he just wasn’t willing to wait for or take a chance on, for obvious reasons, we find that 300 +felons voted for him; illegal votes, and I believe he beat Coleman by 200 + , which means that the seat belonged to Coleman all along.
We had a couple of races in 2010 that were so close, help from the GOP would have probably turned the tide. But, instead, Karl Rove, Krauthammer, etc., poked fun at those who were raising big money, and had strong support, and in the end, the bad publicity paid off in favor of the Dems.
I am sick of the infighting, and the pettiness. I wish there were a third party that would draw from both sides.
In my opinion the problem is not entirely the fault of the GOP itself. It is the republican voters who keep electing these losers to represent them in the primary. When the general comes around all one can do is hold one’s nose and check the box. I believe too many are caught up in the PC crap and end up bending over backwards to ‘make peace’ with the dems, so they cave on their principles or maybe don’t even know what their principles are anymore. Just look at the polls. The strongest people get the least support and the weakest ones get the most. Romney and Huck are at the top??? Until the voters stop relinquishing their principles, the GOP weakness will persist.
I would welcome a third party that true conservatives could migrate to. Yes there would be a transition period. Yes it would be a painful transition, but the alternative is a seemingly endless parade of weak candidates every cycle and more losses to real threats like obama.
I agree that a Rino purge is needed!!
Axe,
First, Axe, you’re right – the GOP has been becoming a hotbed of liberalism. Gotta be careful – some say Perot’s 3rd party caused Clinton to win.
The Acorn staff will do a divide and conquer if they can. Seems to me like a mass good guy evacuation out of the GOP to form up a strong 3rd party. Again, we gotta be careful not to screw up!
They will do a Saul Alinsky job on whatever effort cranks up.
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Tanya,
Yes! RINO purge is needed early on. Tanya? That you? Yeah!!! Wow! What an honor! Glad you’re on our side!!!
Bart
Leave the GOP to wither on the vine and move on to the next party incarnation.Do it in a way that by the 2016 the GOP will be the 3rd party and the new Conservative TEA backed entity has taken its place as it has been done in earlier parts of history.
You know i have always said a third party was not needed but, now
i have changed my mind….Bring on the Tea Party, a true dedicated
conservative party with our beautiful Governor Sarah Palin at the
helm and a cabinet with some common sense and pride in America
that will accomplish the peoples well……
It may be a little late for 2012 but, if we continue to elect a group of
Rhino’s then this would just add fuel to the fire….
Tea Party of America:
Palin/West 2012
Expell and eject the RINOs each election, as many as we can, we will never win with a third party, the dems would love for this to happen.
I agree with you Diamond Girl RINOs have GOT to be voted out!
Rush always says if we go 3rd party, the GOP will wind up being the “outsider” party. Every day brings a new outrage from these slimy ba$tards. Count me in the “had enough” category, too.
@Diamond Girl,
You are right. We do not need a third party. We need to be vigilant in throwing out RINOs. We may lose some ground like we did in Delaware, but by throwing Castle out, we put the rest of these RINOs on notice. The Tea Party is just starting out. By the next election cycle, there will be stronger candidates that the Tea Party can get behind. It’s gonna take a few years, but I believe in the end many current Republicans will end up being Democrats or independents. The third party already exists: it is called the conservative awakening.
We need to face up to the Facts, yes we need vote the RHINO’s out! However, I really think we need to rename the parties! We have the Tea Party, the Progressive Repuiblicans (AKA RHINO Party). I think the current batch of Republicabns must have been bought out by George Soros.
However the Democrates have the same problem, they also need a change. They need to do away with the Democrat party, and go with the Progressive Democrat Party, and the Socialist Party.
Maybe we just need the Tea Party, the Progressive Party, and the Socialist “UnionWorkers” Party.
The muscle is the primaries. Typically the primaries are ignored and only the most motivated vote.
Not this time…the TPers are agitated and I suspect the voters will increase enough to eliminate rinos & squeeshes.
I would like to see a big move to squash Behner.
For the record the ‘Jack Davis’ mentioned in this article is very well known to be a FAKE Tea Party candidate. He supported Obama and took money from Obama’s PAC in 2006 when he ran for another office. It is either gross incompetence or willful politicizing by The Hill to say this particular race exemplifies third party sentiment. It may prove GOP incompetence for not having squelched an obvious fraud like this long ago. That’s the more interesting story. Since Soros was so successful running this Fake Tea guy, one can only expect many more to surface in the future.
So, for the sake of argument, how successful has the “throw the RINOs out” tactic been so far? In 2010 it cost you at least two senate seats. How many of your wave of new Tea party backed freshman congresscritters actually voted the “right” way on the continuing resolutions? How many more will defect when it comes to the debt ceiling? How many pols, once conservative darlings are now reviled by the movement?
Oh, goodie . . . another 4 years of Obama. How can people not remember Ross Perot and the 1992 election?
Oh, and the return of both Houses to the Dems. Great idea!
the GOP has been taken over by the Abraham Vereide Dominionists. they want to establish a totalitarian Theocracy in the USA. based on their perverted Anti-Christ version of Christianity.
http://doggo.tripod.com/doggchrisdomin.html
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304984631&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fundamentalist-Threat-American-Democracy/dp/0316091073/ref=pd_sim_b_1
people are finaly wizing up to Americas worst threat.. Dominionism is just a Theo-political form of western Sheria law.
@TreyTalon – I am with you – agreed.
Yeah true Conservative Republicans are in a damned if you do damned if you don’t scenario. The Demonrats are drooling and laughing like Mr Burns at this.
What’s the alternative? Don’t do anything? Hope the voters get rid of the RINOs? Isn’t that exactly what the plan has been for some 30 years now? What makes you think things will end up any differently this time? Looking back on the Perot race is tantamount to putting your head in the sand…again. See, hear, speak no evil. He was no conservative either.
I don’t see any future for the GOP. I’m out of that group for good. No more of my $ is goin to people that fail to represent me. I’m movin over to the libertarians I guess. At least they have some fiscal sense.
I’m a strong conservative with libertarian leanings, and I won’t vote along party lines. RINOs have to go .. we need to get with the Tea Party and consolidate and back good strong ‘no BS’ conservatives and vote them in and the RINOs out. We don’t need to fracture the right because we are currently frustrated, we need to UNIFY and take the Republican party where it needs to go. RINOs need to be looking for something else to do because they’re out of a job.
I also want to see strong State governments, that’s where a lot of traction is coming from today, and its great, because the Feds can’t dictate to the states, unless the states cave and conservative states can tell them to shove it.
Then I’d like to see us pare down the Federal stranglehold on America, cut the bloated bureaucracies and taxes, and send all the useless government employee leeches and unemployed bureaucrats home with severance.
I’d love to see them on the street looking for jobs from all the businesses that they are currently trying to screw.
heh!
I’d like to see
When the majority of your own party members wish they had someone else to vote for, your ass is in big frigging trouble.
The GOP has finally gone the way of the Whigs.
Jack O’ Spades says,
“The GOP has finally gone the way of the Whigs.”
they could never be Whigs. wigs were for improving America, ya’ll just want to privatize it all, sell it to a corporation. give it away for a song to people who’ll screw the poor to get richer. top 1% richest hold 42% of financial wealth, 6 times what the bottom 80% hold. the top 20% hold 93% of America’s financial wealth. so much for trickle down echonomics..
http://www.jmisc.net/whigs.htm
and the bottom 50% don’t pay taxes but most of them get money back by way of government giveaways, earned income credit, etc. Where does the money come from, to do that? The top 3% of the income scale is where it comes from. All of those people that you keep bashing! I wish everyone would quit ragging on the rich. They can’t carry the bottom 50%, and pay for Obama’s multi-trillion dollar debt/spending spree, too.
If you believe that we either all rise together, or fall together, then you are in the wrong boat. We are each responsible to try to find our own destiny, our own happiness, and our own way. We can help others, and others can help us, but if we force a few, to carry the weight of everybody, we are asking TOO MUCH.
Don’t “Perot” us in 2012.
A third party will guarantee 4 more years of Obama.
DON’T GET STUPID!
I was terminated as a member at RedState for voicing this very opinion.
I am sick of sending ” Conservatives ” to office only to watch them ” Compromise ”
I begged my way back into RedState and was re-instated, but… I pretty much quit wasting my time there. Gutless is gutless.
gop are rino bastards
What a bunch of horseshit this is. Other than the fact that Gallup is to Democrats what Rasmussen is to Republicans there’s no way this poll could be right.
We talk about RINOS out here a lot. But you gotta make up your mind – if a Congresscritter’s CONSTITUENTS want that Republican congresscritter to vote on a particular issue the way a Blue congresscritter should do, what the fuck should the GOP Congresscritter do – listen to his/her constituents or go ahead, ignore them (the way Pelosi, Reid and Obama ignored the majority of Americans on ObamaCare) and vote his or her conscience. I’ve always felt that Congresscritters are beholden to their constituents wishes. See e.g. Scott Brown; don’t sacrifice elemental principles of your political philosophy, but listen to your constituents.
The ONLY people who would benefit from a Third Party would be the fucking Democrats. Gallup knows it. The MSM knows it and anyone with a lick of sense should know it.
Allen West in 2012! Come join the movement to draft him to run!
http://www.allenwestnation.com/
realwest says:
“Other than the fact that Gallup is to Democrats what Rasmussen is to Republicans there’s no way this poll could be right.”
I am one of tens of thousands who left the Republican Party because we finally caught on to their game. They talk super conservative during the election campaign and then cave in to the progressive agenda while in office.
We just saw it played out:
“GOP says it will cut $100 Billion from budget.” (even though this is only about 1/18th of the borrowed money getting spent this year.)
“GOP says it will cut $60 billion from budget.”
“GOP votes to cut $35 Billion from budget”
“CBO says $35 Billion cut actually only $350 million cut.”
“GOP says real fight is going to be over raising the Debt Ceiling.”
“GOP makes no promises on Debt Ceiling vote.”
“GOP compromises on Debt Ceiling vote.” (How can we pay our credit card bills if we don’t raise our credit limit?)
“GOP says real fight is going to be 2012 election.”
Rinse and repeat.