ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u Not really Panda,the years it would take for a fledgling party to gain traction and adherents would be years of one party rule.Not in any way a good thing IMO,a countervailing force is what keeps us from slipping too left...or too right.Much better the Republicans,the party of Lincoln excise their demons(religious right ,neoconservatives) and rejoin the fray as a opposition party with ideas of its own. There are tens of millions of adherents just waiting for such a party to emerge so they can jump on board. You see it every day; Republicans all over the country are just screaming for sane, genuinely conservative leadership. It's not like a startup business. The people who would be leading the party are already in power, with a lot of political experience. The infrastructure, the expertise, the methodologies, the contact lists, the donors, and most importantly the tens of millions of voters desperate for leadership that represents their moderate conservative interests - everything is already there, all of those things. It's just a matter of a sufficient number of them coming together and saying, "OK, we're a new party." Only 1 out of 5 voters in this country right now identify themselves as Republicans. The number of conservative voters who have rejected the party is probably greater than the number of conservatives who still embrace the party, and every one of those disenfranchised conservatives is just crying for a new party to identify with. There's no reason at all it would take years for the new party to solidify. Heck, on a statewide level here in Minnesota, the Independence Party literally came out of nowhere in just a matter of 2 or 3 months to win the governor's seat in 1998. In the summer of 98, most people didn't even realize a party by that name existed; in November, they were in the Governor's mansion. And even if it did take years, how long do you think it would take for the moderate Republicans to exterminate the Palins and the Limbaughs? I think forming a fresh new party would take a lot less time, and a lot less bitter infighting and partisan thermonuclear war, than trying to take their party back from the lunatic fringe who've seized control of it.
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