PLAN B Is Only Option As GOP Drowns Out True Conservative While Pushing Ultra Liberal Giuliani For President
Growing Numbers Join High Profile Conservatives Saying 'That's Not A Threat - That's a Promise - To Vote Third Party In November
Poll numbers strongly suggest voters are thinking outside the box and would consider voting for a third party candidate for president in '08. Joining prominent conservative, Christian leader Dr. James Dobson, who said his "conscience and . moral convictions"(AP/5/18,2007) would prevent him from voting for Rudy Giuliani should he win the Republican presidential nomination, more Americans are opting for 'Plan B' - a vote for a third party presidential candidate. In a recent Rasmussen survey 58% of Americans said it would be good for the United States to have a "truly competitive" third party. The Constitution Party , America's third largest party based on voter registrations (Ballot Access News) points to years of growing discontent with the Republican and Democrat "Big Box" parties as the reason voters are now weighing their options , especially on one issue that has voters seething - immigration. According to top-rated public opinion firm Rasmussen Reports , conservative respondents were asked how they would vote if "a third party candidate ran in 2008 and promised to build a barrier along the Mexican border and make enforcement of immigration law his top priority."
The survey shows, when it comes to immigration, both "Big Box" parties left Americans cold: the poll showed 35% of conservatives said they'd pick a third party candidate over a Republican.
It's no wonder,after years of broken promises voters are looking elsewhere. These numbers shouldn't surprise anyone - it's been a long time coming; especially in light of how both parties are ignoring American's wishes by pushing the current sham "immigration reform" legislation. It's nothing more than economic and public safety suicide. amnesty, plain and simple.
The Rasmussen study was done by the same firm that earlier showed Americans would trust a used car salesman over a member of Congress . .
Anger has supplanted apathy. Americans are furious over what has happened to their country at the hands of the power-elite now running the government. Polling numbers on the recent MSNBC GOP California debate and the early polls of FOX News' South Carolina debate show thatd espite the mainstream media's reluctance to acknowledge him, authentically-conservative Congressman Ron Paul had right-thinking voters sitting up and taking notice. Since the GOP has all but banished the congressman, what other choice do voters have but to look to a third party candidate?
Polling before and after the California debate showed Paul's approval increased 31% after viewers had a chance to hear him speak, compared to liberal "frontrunner" former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who's approval decreased 19% after the debate. Numbers like that show Americans want someone other than the typical party boys and they won't get that with either of the 'Big Two'.
Third parties are no strangers to Americans. Almost a century and a half ago the Republican Party was itself a "third party", and came to power when the Whig party split apart over the slavery issue. We're seeing a similar thing happen now that the Republican Party has abandoned issues that are important to its conservative base.
www.constitutionparty.com
Former TV news anchor,radio talk show host, '06 Oregon gubernatorial candidate, currently Communications Director for Constitution Party
We can have a viable third party if we can fool the two parties in power into thinking we have thrown in the rag, waved the white flag. I urge everyone to join the Republican party, we can pull the rug out from other both parties with this ploy.... Doing so will give a third party more oppurtunity to gain a foot hold, be heard, and ultimatly gain legitimacy at the polls. By joining the lying Repugs we can undermine them from the inside, best way to rot a fruit, no pun intended, and actually represent the will of the people at the elections.
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Deedee (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments)
on Friday, June 1, 2007 at 8:32:24 AM
The reason the Constitution party is the largest third party is because the Constitution Party is known as the American Independent Party in many states, such as California. People who decide to register to vote Independent, many times will choose "American Independent". Also in California, "Independent" was once registering, "Decline to State Party". Now it is, "No Party".
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Granger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Friday, June 1, 2007 at 8:37:26 AM
I made a pretty terrific case for third parties and a third party presidential victory in Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government (www.delusionaldemocracy.com). As a long-time third party advocate I must admit that the vast majority of voting Americans are too ignorant (not unintelligent) and too brainwashed by the mass media and the two major parties to stop being what has been ruining our nation: lesser evil voters. The only third party presidential candidate that will have a chance is someone like Michael Bloomberg who can spend the same enormous amount of money as the two major party candidates. No existing third party has shown the smarts to ever achieve major victory.
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Joel S. Hirschhorn (118 articles, 22 quicklinks, 53 diaries, 470 comments)
on Friday, June 1, 2007 at 1:02:06 PM
The politicians that we've elected, from both parties, are laughing at us while lining their pockets. They have passed laws that exempt themselves from insider trading rules. We are caught in a shell game of "good cop, bad cop". Are we stupid enough to believe that millionaire democrats are actually liberals, wanting to pay their fair share of the tax burden? They all voted for NAFTA, CAFTA, Vietnam, and now Iraq. Why? because it makes them richer and the workingman poorer!!! I remember when Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland, OH. He tried to keep electric prices down by refusing to sell muni-light. The corporate fatcats stepped on him badly and the city went into default. If you ever think a third party can be successful in this country, you'd better start at the bottom with dogcatchers, undertakers, and councilmen. It's going to take years.
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mattzcat (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 58 comments)
on Friday, June 1, 2007 at 2:35:19 PM
You Betcha we need a New Major Third Party NOW, more then at anyother time in our whole US history,since both the Gutless Inept Cowardly Democrats are just as Totally Incompetent and Greedy and Corrupt as the Bush Republican Party and that is a reality and fact of life! And it is the real reason that Independents now outnumber both Republicans and Democrats in Voter Resgistrations today! So lets give the American Voters a real alternative to these totally corrupt dishonest gutless cowards sell outs with a new third major political party now!
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Ralph (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments)
on Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 8:02:30 PM
I totally agree with you regarding our need for more political parties. I tried to listen to the Democrats in Iowa, but Hillary did it again. Seventy-two years as a journalist with a tour at teaching would-be writers that the good ones convey with specifics, both words and information, Hillary's smooth,careful generalizing —the kind she can readily skew—makes me wince.
As an example, I point to Congressman Kucinich's use of "not-for profit" term in reference to his medical plan, compared to her "affordable." Given the million-dollar campaign contribution, or is it a billion, (either has more zeros than I can count), reportedly deriving from the Israeli Zionist's lobby, her "affordable" is not mine.
To honor my journalists' ethics regarding specific information, our contribution to Israel has been in goods, not dollars: bombs, giant earth-moving rigs to turn Palestinian homes into lots to accommodate further immigration, and for their wall.
A new face and voice issuing from my TV re-capltures my attention as another candidate appears.
But, in finale, I thoroughly agree that the U. S. needs a second political party, to date having two that are largely indistinguishable from each other. I like green.
Dr Horswill
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emily horswill (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 64 comments)
on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 5:23:04 AM
