This is the next round of the infamous Battle of the Conservative Bloggers.
This is probably one of the most pressing issues on the conservative side of the ideological spectrum. Weather Conservatives should to move to form and vote for a true conservative 3rd party or to drive the Republicans to become a more solid and reliable Conservative party.
In this round of the conservative debate we have Don from Present DiscontentConservative Hideout 2.0 and Scratcher from Makes My Brain Itch. Both of these excellent bloggers are members of The Resistance and regular contributor to as well.
The question posed to the participants is:
Some people think, long term, that a true Conservative 3rd party is necessary, because the Republicans have proven only slightly better than Democrats when they were in power. The thinking goes, we are never going to change Washington, so why bother voting in the Republicans.
Other say that we need to refocus the Republicans because if we actually form a 3rd party, we are guaranteeing that the left will win election after election.
The question is what should the focus of Conservatives be going forward, a revitalized Republican party or a true Conservative party?
Scratcher is up first.
Be sure to check Makes My Brain Itch for his response and Don for the rebuttal and motorcitytimes for links to reactions from across the blog-o-sphere.
Stay tuned for more links to the debate.
Do your part…join the RESISTANCE.
Visit Conservative Hideout RapidFire for all of your Conservative news, opinion, and blogging needs.
Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
Thanks for the link!
Matt,
I’ll give you the unpopular answer. I think we need to fix the Republican Party. Right now we are faced with radical leftists controlling the Democratic Party. They want to transform this country as quick as possible. We need to slow this down quickly and buy ourselves some time. The best way to do it right now is elect the best conservative candidate from the Republican Party. We can hopefully weed out the RHINOs during the primary, but if not we need to still vote Republican. We can fix the party, but if we don’t slow this transformation train down, I fear there might not be a United States as we know it in the near future to fix.
hey Matt..we sure do need radical change..how it will come about remains to be seen..but we must fight to the death my friend!!:)
You said it Angel!
Please, no third party. I supported Ross Perot in his losing effort in 1992. A election that led to the election of Bill Clinton as a result of Perot. We can’t afford a second Obama administration–in a second term he would be completely free to stack one executive order on top of another and only god know how many appointees he would get to make the the high court. Third parties almost never succeed, with the exception of the Republican party in 1860 and that split led to civil war. The history of third parties is dismal and at best one of the major parties usually adopts their platforms—this has been their function over the years. But to field a candidate in 2012 would be destructive to the nation and I for one would not support the candidate regardless of who it is.
Good point Ron, I hope you take a look at what Scratcher and Don have to say on the topic.