Third Party?

Freepers begin to...well, not calm down, but channel their rage into more coherent, if nonconstructive, ways.

So, the demographics look bad. And the inevitable conclusion that Romney just wasn't mean and Freeper enough to win has yet to become gospel truth. Nevertheless, assisted by Herman Cain, some Freepers are jumping the gun and want to leave the GOP.

TigerClaws keeps pragmatic 'cause those Dems march in lockstep!

Splitting the vote won’t help.

Love and apparently West lost. Dems won’t cross party lines.

This was winnable. Obama had ten million fewer votes. Our voters were scared off by the negative ads. The divide and conquer attack game worked.

CanadianBloodAmericanHeart is still in the all is ashes phase.

No gonna matter....we won’t make it 4 years...Once Obama installs all the lifer liberals and infects the system, we will never win again.

wideawake thinks the GOP is still going strong.

I think it is wise to bring up the Whigs.
The Whig party was highly unstable - it effectively collapsed after 16 years of existence.

The Whigs, not an effective party in themselves, became the core of the highly effective Republican Party.

The Tea Party cannot be an effective party unto itself, much like the Whigs could not be.

Moreover, the Whigs only became the second party because the Federalists had basically ceased to exist.

If the GOP had only gotten 25% of the vote in this election, that would have recreated the circumstances for its dissoultion and replacement.

The GOP is not dead. It still polls almost 50% nationally. It is stalled out.

It needs new leadership.

The Great RJ just needs a hero:

The GOP again needs a leader like Thatcher or Reagan. The TEA party started something in 2010 and needs to continue the work of both transforming the GOP and then America. All that is needed is a new leader to emerge that believes in America and the values of liberty and free enterprise and is not willing to compromise to just get along. Think of Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan and other conservatives as prophets of one greater to come.

taildragger knows who to call!

When Sarah quit the governorship a couple of friends called and asked me what I thought. My gut told me she is going her own way, going around them and perhaps form another party...

It maybe time, will she be the person that builds anew as the GOP goes the way of the Wigs? Darned if I know, but personally I don't think our energies should be in changing the political but focus on survival...

Cringing Negativism Network agrees

Stand up Palin.

Now.

Man, that Palin-boner won't quit! Once you fool a Freeper, they stay fooled! dps.inspect has the grumpy old men party all planned out:

I'm there... just call it "The Conservative Party... the New Resistance"... first and foremost we resist big government and the welfare state, we resist the demise of our constitution, we resist the denigration of traditional marriage, we resist the popular attitudes on abortion, we resist pop culture and its denigration of all that is wholesome, we resist Obama!!

kevkrom is gonna stick it out:

And my opinion of Cain continues to plummet. Taking the ball and going home isn’t going to fix anything. Conservatives have to fix the GOP from the inside if they want any chance of stopping liberalism — a third party merely entrenches the libs.

redinIllinois thinks 1/3 of Americans are Freepers:

I feel like I gave the Republican party one last chance to save themselves, and they were too stupid to take it.

My take on the next election is:

R 33, D 33, Herman Cain or Sarah Palin as Tea Party, Independent, Constitution Party, whatever 34%.

It’s time to use the numbers against the status quo.

Ross Perot was crazy, and he still got lots of votes.

Everyone knows revolution is coming.

Which do you prefer - violent revolution, or revolution at the ballot box?

BOR pointed out last night that conservatives are less than 50% so they can’t win by themselves, but he was only discussing a two party division - there are more than 34%, so in a 3 way split, conservatives could win with a lot less votes than either one got on election night.

Alan West is contesting the vote. We really need a fighter like him. If the pubs redistict him out because he’s too conservative, he might be happy to be a part of the new party.