Newt Gingrich Speaks For Me!

[SteppingRazor]

n his latest move to become the Savior of the Republican Party (expect him to come riding into D.C. on a white horse sometime in the summer of 2011), Newt Gingrich has announced that the GOP needs to get its act together, or true conservatives may go third party in 2012. To that I say, AMEN!

A split in the Republican Party has been a long time coming. The last Republican presidential primary saw the GOP fracture into its three main bodies, with social conservatives rallying behind Mike Huckabee, fiscal conservatives behind Mitt Romney and warhawks behind John McCain. McCain, of course, managed to gather in more moderate Republicans than the other two, which catapulted him to the nomination. But once he was there, no one really liked the idea. Sarah Palin was always a sop to disaffected right-wingers, and as she catered to the base's ugly side, she left independents out in the cold.

The obvious answer, of course, is that the Republican Party no longer represents large portions of its base. What this country needs is, say, a Christian Democracy Party headed up by people like Huckabee and Palin; a Conservative Libertarian Party (colloquially known as the John Galts), which could fund itself through corporate sponsorships; and a Peace Party, which would actually be a hawkish party promoting massive defense budgets and an interventionist foreign policy, named in the Orwellian manner we've come to know and love in the Department of Defense.

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Here in Florida, as in many states, we have the option of getting amendments inserted into the state constitution via popular referendum. Currently, Fair State Florida is making a push to end gerrymandering, forcing the state to draw congressional districts that are compact and community-based, instead of the bizarre shapes they now take, which ensure that many districts are so solidly Democratic or Republican that representatives essentially have no worries as to whether they'll be re-elected. Ending gerrymandering and promoting public financing of campaigns may not end the two-party system, but it should make that system far more responsive to the will of the people.


More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/newt-gingrich-speaks-for_b_182793.html

[rurallib]

1. Newt has a different wife for each of those parties!

[SteppingRazor]

2. Ha!

:rimshot:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. It's about time the Republican party split

'cause the Democratic party has been split for decades!

(geez, I wish this was a joke)

:hi:

[SteppingRazor]

5. I think in their own way, they both have been.

The GOP has always been a pretty tenuous alliance -- after all, what do a coke-snorting, whore-hopping Wall Street type and a Bible-thumping Jesus freak really have in common?

And as far as the Democrats, Will Rogers said it best 70 years ago: "I'm not a member of any organized party -- I'm a Democrat."

[Dr.Phool]

4. He's good for something.

I didn't know they had any true conservatives left. I thought they were all far-right extremists.

[cwcwmack]

6. it's logical...

and will guarantee their ruin for this generation.

Today the "Republican Party" consists of:

1) Libertarians. They're the guys and gals who are all "I don't care what you do as long as you stay out of my life. Do drugs, marry whomever you wish... and don't be imperialist. Protect the border, nation of laws... and don't waste money.

2) Fundies. They're teh ones that believe THEY are the only thing standing between good and evil. LOL

3) Rich and Stingy folks. Aka, Blue Blood Repubs...

4) Neocons. Bush/Cheney/Rove... etc.


#1 dislikes #2 AND #4

#2 dislikes #1

#3 dislikes #1 AND #2

#4 dislikes #1