The Republican Party has paid lip service to the small government philosophy since the Reagan era. The truth is that except for a brief period in the late 90’s when Democrat Bill Clinton was President, the GOP has not followed through on this. The Presidency of Baby Bush saw the biggest expansion of government services since LBJ. Papa Bush ran higher deficits and increased taxes. So the GOP has no track record of fiscal and economic Conservatives post Reagan.
With the election of Barack Hussein Obama and his massive increase in spending the Tea Party movement arose. It reinvigorated Conservatism and lead to the GOP’s massive 2010 victories. Many thought they were serious this time. We all were wrong.
House Speaker John Boehner traveled to NY to meet with Wall Street investors. He claimed that Congress will not raise the debt ceiling unless a long term plan is addressed. As we have seen from the lame duck surrender and Obama getting one over on The GOP Eunuchs in the budget battle, these clowns are not serious.
The lack of seriousness has led many on the right to conclude it’s time for a 3rd Party. Gallup has a poll showing a majority of Republicans agree with this sentiment.
Gallup has always found political independents to be most desirous of a third party, and 68% currently are. But right now there is also a significant party gap, with 52% of Republicans favoring a third party, compared with 33% of Democrats.
This is the first time Gallup finds a significantly higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in favor of a third party. During much of President Bush’s term, the opposite was true, with Democrats more likely to favor the formation of a third party. That gap narrowed in 2007, after the Democrats’ victories in the 2006 midterms, and there has been a minimal difference between the two parties until the current poll.
Tea Party Supporters More in Favor of Third Party
The increase in Republican support for a third party since 2008 could be an outgrowth of the Tea Party movement, which is closely aligned with the GOP. The poll, which also assessed Americans’ orientation toward the movement, finds 60% of those who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters in favor of a third party, compared with 44% of Tea Party opponents. The opinions of those who say they are neither supporters nor opponents fall in between those of the two groups.
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The Republican coalition is very unstable. The Establishment of the party are Center-Left Liberals. The majority of Republican voters are Center-Right or Rightwing. Something has to give. The favorite candidates of the GOP elites like Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee are center left.
In order to trick Conservatives the Liberal Republicans preach family values and use social issues to maintain their power. But with an anemic economy and endless wars, many Conservative have realized this is a con act. Hence a rising support for a 3rd Party.
In my case I will support the GOP in 2012, but then break with them afterward. I no longer feel welcome in today’s Republican Party since it doesn’t address my concerns. Once Obama is out of office the political Right should then start a new Party based on Economic/Fiscal Conservatism and a Jacksonian foreign policy. Then in 2014 and 2016 defeat the Center-Left Republican Party and Far Left Democratic Party to have the first Conservative government since Ronald Reagan.
A split now would be crazy and only benefit Obama. But the day is rapidly approaching when the Right will have to go it’s own way. The Republican Party is not Conservative, it is Liberal and has always been that way. They just use Conservatives for political purposes and then discard them after the elections. The Reagan era was just one shining moment that the GOP establishment will never allow to happen again.
Let’s discuss this and respectfully. No one is right or wrong on this subject. It’s just peoples’ opinions.
Update: After much discussion, the consensus is a Party purge is needed. It’s time to root out the Liberal Republicans for the GOP’s heirarchy and make it Conservative.
Tags: 3rd Party, Gallup Polls
