Its OUR responsibility to keep this Republic, not some damn party who WILL ignore us at their leisure and not at their peril. We don’t start taking these parties apart now in the near future we will be subservient to them. The American People can be the third party so we don’t waste our efforts while these parties gives us communism or fascism.

We really don’t have a lot of time to pick which we want to do; clean the rats nest out or start a third party.

Milton Freidman, the Nobel-winning libertarian economist, one noted that the Socialist Party was the most powerful third party in American history. Why? Because even though it never got more than a small percentage of the vote and held a tiny handful of elective offices many of its economic proposals were adopted by both the Republican and Democrat Parties.

Today, the Democrat Party has morphed completely into the Socialist Party, even to the point of nominating and electing a Robert Mugabe-style strongman. Once in power the Won launched a crackdown on the Bill of Rights. Thanks to McCain and Bush, the GOP is not far behind in its embrace of socialism, and GOP senators and representatives elbow each other to push for socialized health care and environmental regulations.

Foxx is completely wrong. Third parties have a long history of forcing the major parties’ hands, and even if all that a conservative third party does is keep folks like McCain and Snowe from being re-elected, then it will have performed a major service to the country. If the present GOP leadership will not see the light, then instead make them feel the heat.

even the Anchorage Daily, not exactly a supporter, would find “quitter” risible.

Whether it’s true is irrelevant in a political campaign. What matters is how the voters perceive it.

As I said above, this is ammunition for her opponents. Do you think they won’t use it? Anyone who runs against her – primary or general election – will blanket the airwaves with ads saying, in effect, “when the going gets tough, Sarah quits”.

That will resonate with a lot of voters, true or not. She will spend much of her next campaign defending this action instead of promoting her platform and vision for the future. Serving out her term and not running for re-election would not be a problem. Leaving now is the problem.

The more I think about it, the more I agree with Ed Morrissey: it’s the end of her national political career. And that’s sad…I for one would still vote for her in a heartbeat.

A third party, if survives inception and so far none have,

With the exception of the Republican Party, it has survived. Our problem is the idiotic moderate leadership, who want us to act just like the Democrats. – Lorica

If you think you have enemies in either Repubs or Democrats, librals or conservatives; then i call you a fool who needs a wake up call. A third party, if survives inception and so far none have, only makes things worse because they become another brand name to use against anyone who uses that moniker.

Want to fix whats going on then go to your locale tea party, make some friends, find out who is where and why they are there and start corrdinating a conservative come back. I tell ya now, its going to take time because there are no quick fixes and no silver bullet canidate thats going to save the day. We the people are going to do that. Once agains through determination and effort. Time to put down our differences and get to work like the people who are trying to take apart this country.

2010 is a nice start, but its a step in a long path of many steps beforce we turn around this decades of corruption in this country.

I am torn between that and the millions of Alaskan State dollars her opponents spent, and the half-million she has spent, on meritless “ethics” charges.

As to those calling her a quitter – peruse her history, starting with her expansion of a fishing license into a [more] prosperous business: even the Anchorage Daily, not exactly a supporter, would find “quitter” risible.

Don’t be surprised if this turns out to be the beginning of a serious conservative third party challenge.

You heard it here first.

I hope that you are right. I was a long-time skeptic of a conservative third party, but it’s clear that the Grand Old Party is now the Dead Old Party, and is being run by left-wing RINO hacks. A third party could shake up what’s left of the Republican Party – perhaps to the extent of serious reform.

But it is far more likely is that she is tired of politics and the toll that it has taken on her children, and who could blame her?

Then Alinsky’s 10th tactic comes into play: Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition (…) that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.” Charges of ethics violations, one after another, must be investigated even if the workload slows everyone in the department down. So the system gets overloaded and the costs go up for not just the target, but everyone around the target.

Just watch. As soon as Palin is out of the way, another conservative will be made a target.

Sorry Anthony when I say party moderates I mean in party leadership, I was unclear there. My apologies.

Ah, okay. Now my pea-brain gets it. Yes, I agree that the Party insiders had it out for her.

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