ANY TALK OF A THIRD PARTY MUST BE DISCOURAGED

While I'll be among the first to admit that many in the Republican Party have lost their conservative credentials and to a point, even their right to be called Republicans, let alone conservatives, the time has not yet come to abandon the Party. Instead, the time has now come for us to flex our conservative muscle and to bring about change to the Party. Because now is not the time to focus on the formation of a third party movement since all that would effectively accomplish would be to do nothing more than to virtually guarantee a Democrat lock on the winning of any and all future elections. What needs to be the focus of our primary conservative efforts is the locating of viable "conservative" candidates that can, if necessary, earn the Tea Party endorsement as a method of proving to the conservative electorate that they do in fact stand firmly behind conservative principles, both fiscally and socially. If we insist upon going down the third party road my fear is, that all we're going to end up doing will be the kicking of ourselves in butt for years into the future as we watch Democrat after Democrat laugh all the way to Washington. And I’m speaking from experience as being someone who chose to vote for Ross Perot over Bush 41 in 1992. Granted, I was very politically naïve back then but in the end, what did I get for my efforts? Nothing more than eight years of "BJ" Clinton, that’s what. I'm now hearing rumblings and talk about, once again, because of dissatisfaction with the Republican Party, having candidates running under the banner of the Tea Party as a way of putting forth a conservative agenda. However, when placed on a generic ballot these candidates do nothing more than to take votes away from the Republican candidates to allow the Democrats to win every time. That just does not sound like a smart way to go about the advancing of the conservative agenda or in getting to where it is that we need or want to end up. And I'll tell you straight up, I'll never vote for a third party candidate again for as long as I live.
We, as conservatives must come to realize that in order for us to make any amount of serious headway against the current liberal onslaught, it would be very self-defeating to encourage this third party nonsense. I swear, sometimes I feel like we're our own worst enemy. We should now be strenuously focused in our efforts on the reforming of the current Republican Party making our wishes abundantly clear to Party leadership. There must be no room left for doubt regarding where it is we are coming from. We must make the point that unless they wish to become nothing more than a footnote in the political history of this country they will need to do much more to ensure the selection and the backing of those candidates who are cut from the conservative mold. Sometimes I do wonder why it is that we conservatives so often end up shooting ourselves in the foot, letting Liberal Democrats just waltz right on to victory. The 2010 election is looming just over the horizon and if we do choose to go down the third party path, trust me I say we could do nothing that would please the Democrats more. And trust me also when I say, the very last thing I wish to do is to put a smile on the face of Howard "The Screamer" Dean or any other sleazy Democrat, and that of course would include, Barry the "Almighty". It would prove to be disastrous and nothing more than the squandering of just one more opportunity in our attempt to salvage what’s left of our country and to take back control, wrestling it away from those who wish to destroy it. We have good, strong conservative candidates we can run under the Republican banner and one measure I have taken personally, is to not donate one thin dime to the RNC but, instead, to those candidates I deem as being worthy of getting not only my money, but also my vote.
It is just flat out bad headwork to come at this problem from any other direction than the one that ensures properly conservative grade candidates are selected by the RNC. And we cannot afford to delegate that decision making process to the state run mainstream media as we did in allowing them to essentially select our last presidential candidate. The electing of any additional Republicans in name only (RINOs) such as the two bimbos from Maine, Jphn McCain or Lindsey Graham, to name just a select few, only succeeds in getting our Party into totally unnecessary and damaging situations. We do not need any more on our side who feel the need to go about the marching to the beat of their own drum or going off and becoming members of some gang of 8 or 10 or 14 or whatever. It's bad enough when we have to work to defeat the Liberal Democrats but when we're forced to expend critical time, money and effort against those in our own Party it only serves to weaken our hand and strengthen that of our Liberal Democrat adversaries. Having said that however, I still strongly oppose any notion of forming any third party, because that will only succeed in weakening us even further and lessening our chancs at achieving any kind of victory. If we want to ever have any hope of stemming the current tide that is dragging us further and further leftward, then we must concentrate all of our efforts in selecting the right candidates whom we can then put before the American people, and then elect and send into battle. They must be willing to commit to meeting the needs of those who elect them and for whom they will now work, and not get carried away with their new title nor focus on ways to accomplish any form of self aggrandizement. They must also agree that the people and the country remain their top priority. They must understand we do expect them to go about the searching out of ways to enrich themselves nor are they to be responsible for any amount of pork, no matter how trivial in any of the bills that are forwarded to our illustrious president for his signature.
Those in the state run media continue to think that they are just so smart. They figure they're just too darn smart for us common folk and that they can easily manipulate the American electorate in any way they see fit, bending them in any manner necessary to accomplish what they deem to be of importance. Especially, after the last election which they view as being a success by them in having an impact on its outcome. I have the distinct feeling that those in the state run media equate being conservative with nothing more than being a Redneck, a moron or worse, when it is just the opposite that is true. Let’s be real here, if I were to take a random group of conservatives and compare their average IQs with a random group of liberals I have a sneaky suspicion that the group of liberals would prove to be far less intelligent for no other reason than the pool of voters from which the two groups would be drawn. These media types are of the mind that had it not been for them, Barry would never have won the last election and I would say I would have to agree with that assessment. By their essentially refusing to ask any substantive or probing questions of him prior to the 2008 election, they succeeded in keeping the American people completely in the dark about his highly dubious and extremely questionable past. Some went to far as to having tinglings going up their legs and much was made of his eloquent speaking ability that caused so many to simply swoon when in his very presence. At the same time they also played a major roll in our own selection process by continually providing very favorable press for the candidate they wished for us to select as our nominee. My God, it was the New York Times that even came out and endorsed John McCain during the primary. And we fell for it, lock, stock and barrel. We selected a candidate that was practically guaranteed to lose to Barry "Almighty" and we have no one to blame but ourselves. It is a mistake that we simply cannot afford to repeat in any future election, especially in 2010 or 2012. We must be solely responsible for the selection of our candidates and make them solely responsible to we the conservatives from whom they will need to receive votes.
The bottom line here is that to proceed in the direction yearned for by some and to possibly form some third party is to do nothing more than to capitulate to the so-called "centrists" or "moderates" who have set about to control our party. If screwy left wing nutjobs can wrestle away control of the Democrat Party, we the sensible and the sane can definitely make a move on the Republican Party in an effort to get it headed back in the right direction and back to its conservative roots. There is still a market for conservatism regarding both fiscal and social matters and definitely in the area of maintaining a strong national defense, a common sense foreign policy and working for a solid victory in our ongoing war on terror. Despite what some would have us believe the age of Reagan is not over. Granted it may have taken a few hits of late, but it is far from being over. And if need be, if the RNC refuses pick the right candidates there is nothing that says that we cannot then pick our own candidates. The perfect example of this is going on right here in Florida where the RNC has gotten behind Charlie Crist and the people have gotten behind Marco Rubio, to the point where Crist has slid from being solidly way ahead to now being in a virtual tie, 43-43. We can do this, make no mistake, we can make it happen and without any third party nonsense. It doesn't help matters when we have those inside the beltway "conservatives" who feel the need to try to tell us who is and who is not a conservative. Bearing in mind the NY-23 fiasco when we had so-called conservatives supporting a very Liberal Republican candidate, who when she commenced to get her butt handed to her by the only conservative candidate in the race, threw her support behind the Democrat candidate. We cannot afford to allow ourselves to be talked into anything by anybody. We must remain focused, steadfast and determined in our efforts because there is simply too much riding on the outcome to do anything else.
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