…third parties are a dead end.
…she quickly pivoted to the broader question of whether the Tea Party movement might successfully field its own candidates in national elections, and on that point she sounded far from convinced.
“Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party,” [former Governor Sarah] Palin said. “Which party reflects how that smaller, smarter government steps to be taken? Which party will best fit you? And then because the Tea Party movement is not a party, and we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’.”
Ace (the aforementioned, and self-described, GOP shill*), cut right to the chase when responding to both this, and the fairly obvious point that a functional third party = Democratic victory:
I’m not interested in “sending messages” when those messages come with the other, all-caps message: BARACK OBAMA AND HIS MOST STALWART LIBERAL ALLIES WIN, IN BLOW-OUTS, FOR AN ENTIRE GENERATION.
I’m not interested in a message like that, either. Mind you, I’m not as worried about this as either Ace or Allahpundit is. Third parties are often threatened, but are rarely a problem on the federal level. Indeed, if the Democrats are really relying on and spending resources on the plan of encouraging a national third-party in time for November then it’s official: Congress will flip in the next election. Both Houses. You don’t make desperation plays like that unless you’re, well, desperate.
Besides, the RNC had a rush of oxygen to the brain. I guess that we must have tried everything else, first**.
Moe Lane
*I’m the partisan hack, in case that wasn’t obvious.
**I didn’t say that I was a blindly partisan hack.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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saltlick Wednesday, February 17th at 7:45PM EST (link)… Oh, for a moment I thought you were writing about David Brooks. Carry on.
Moe, my apologies
Viet71 (Diary) Wednesday, February 17th at 8:09PM EST (link)for a comment last night.
I am an outsider, although I’ve been admitted to insider venues.
I want the Republican Party to win in 2010 and 2012, And I think it will.
The more Scott Browns, the better.
Let it be as if it were never written. nt
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conservnut Wednesday, February 17th at 8:23PM EST (link)Oh, I was thinking Frum.
Hayworth
grey68 Wednesday, February 17th at 8:43PM EST (link)http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/azdc/74034
Hayworth under the bus and does this mean you will support John McCain?
Haven't we learned our lesson...?
NeoKong (Diary) Wednesday, February 17th at 9:00PM EST (link)Didn’t we already do the angry thing vote with Ross Perot…?
We have only one choice next November.
More Reid and Pelosi or less Reid and Pelosi.
I’m in“the less” category
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It'd be worse than just MORE of those idiots...
OccamsRazor (Diary) Thursday, February 18th at 1:00AM EST (link)It’d be a 2nd term.
The largest leverage we have over Obama right now is his legacy and his want for a 2nd term (similar analogies with the fools you mention). He wants what every first term President wants, a second one. At that point, God forbid, with no motive to even PRETEND to care for the American public, he’ll steamroll right over our shining hill.
I have a new found respect for Palin the way she is handling the Tea Party movement and the role that’s been thrust upon her in it. She understands a little tough love is needed, which may lose a fraction of the members, but it’s becoming clearer to me anyway that she sees a bigger picture. I personally just assumed (I know I know) that most of the Tea Party types would vote for her if she did nothing at all but run for Republican. She refuses to be defined by the media, yet keeps up public appearances and meets them head on regardless.
I like this move on her part.
The Thing is, anyone who has been listening to Palin
Section9 Thursday, February 18th at 9:27PM EST (link)…understood that she was always going to be loyal to the Republican Party, even though the Clown Shoes Party in D.C. made every effort to throw her under the bus.
She’s one of us. She’s telling the TEA people that she’s not going 3rd party, and that that route is a sure path to a permanent liberal majority.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
The Sad Thing is how it's not Shocking in the Least Bit
Michael Dugas (Diary) Wednesday, February 17th at 9:39PM EST (link)That Cornyn and the NRSC didn’t come to this affair. I have come to believe that the NRSC and to a lesser degree the NRCC are no longer friends to their Republican constituents. The circling of the wagons around Fiorina in Cali and negative ads against Devore are just another sign of how disconnected they are from the people they claim to represent.
How can they claim to be sooo different than Obama and speak on how bad the stimulus is and the bailouts and cap and trade etc and then vocally and financially support a candidate who supports those issues? It’s nuts!
Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”
Remember: A Citizen on the dole is a Liberal Vote at the Polls.
END ENTITLEMENTS!
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum !
LOL, Michael, they can do that because a poll said they should.
nessa (Diary) Wednesday, February 17th at 11:19PM EST (link)Its harder to teach those who are overly impressed with their own importance. Or, like they say about training mules, ya gotta get their attention first.
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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Good for her. I count this as a very positive
mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, February 17th at 10:50PM EST (link)statement and it’s absolutely right.
wow - I - - am - - sooooo - - excited.....
lenguado Thursday, February 18th at 10:47AM EST (link)So let me get this straight…..a generic “Tea Party” candidate polls at around 40% against a Dem or Repug that polls in the high 20s – and a Third Party isn’t viable…. hmmm.
Seems to me that it is the Repuglican party that isn’t viable, and should be asking to join the Tea Party….but then again, I went to a Public Indoctrination Center for my grade school education, and may not understand the math involved.
If I am to put my faith in a Repuglican party that so artfully took care of our country and economy, but didn’t use any lube, and has shown NO real deep roots of changing their ways, then you can count on my not voting next time around. All I see is a lot of talk, but no real “CHANGE” on their part. And when I say THEIR, I mean the ‘establishment’ Repugs.
At this point, voting for them is the same as being asked which method is to be used on you, hanging or electrocution – and then being forced to pull the lever yourself…. Only if & WHEN they clean house – maybe I will consider voting for the ‘establishment’s’ candidate. The acid test will be if McInsane gets elected to another term this year – or if the Repugs run Romney in 2012. Either of those, no point in voting in 2012.
IMHO
"Repug" is a good way to get banned, lenguado. Oh, Niel, cleanup needed. nt
Achance (Diary) Thursday, February 18th at 11:04AM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
he's discovered that by now
streiff (Diary) Thursday, February 18th at 11:12AM EST (link)nt
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