Sarah Palin floats idea of leaving the Republican Party

[Mr Mannn]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/29/sarah-palin-floats-idea-of-leaving-republican-party-video/
Sarah Palin floats idea of leaving the Republican Party [VIDEO at link]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president responded to a Fox News Channel viewer’s Twitter question Saturday about the possibility of her and conservative talker Mark Levin abandoning the Republican Party and creating something called the “Freedom Party.”

Palin suggested she is open to the idea and said that if the GOP continues to abandon its conservative principles, other would follow suit.

“I love the name of that party — the ‘Freedom Party,’” Palin said. “And if the GOP continues to back away from the planks in our platform, from the principles that built this party of Lincoln and Reagan, then yeah, more and more of us are going to start saying, ‘You know, what’s wrong with being independent,’ kind of with that libertarian streak that much of us have. In other words, we want government to back off and not infringe upon our rights. I think there will be a lot of us who start saying ‘GOP, if you abandon us, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in a one or the other private majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or a Republican.’ Remember these are private parties, and you know, no one forces us to be enlisted in either party.”

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Buh-bye. 

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There was (is?) a Conservative party named "The Constitution Party" that came into some prominence when McCain ran.

There might be a structure there for her.  It would be interesting to see a 3rd party with some heft.

And ANY American party that is Conservative.

[Eupher]

Well, like the headline says, she's floating a trial balloon.

That's all it is right now.

[Undies]

I'm looking for a political party to support.  I know how she feels. 

[Freeper]

I'm looking for a political party to support.  I know how she feels. 

I think most of us here feel that way.

[DefiantSix]

There was (is?) a Conservative party named "The Constitution Party" that came into some prominence when McCain ran.

There might be a structure there for her.  It would be interesting to see a 3rd party with some heft.

And ANY American party that is Conservative.

Funny that she would specifically name the one third party organization that gave the Republican party in Colorado shit fits in the 2010 gubernatorial election (Comrade Hickenlooper vs. Tom Tancredo). The GOP had to pretty much actively run in support of the Dhimmi'Rat candidate in order to preserve the D/R power structure, and even then it almost wasn't enough.

[FiddlingAnt]

Third parties can't win elections in the United States. Conservatives need to do what they can to keep the Republican party from leaning too far to the left. Conservative third parties only result in the election of more Democrats.  Here in Utah, we missed the chance of electing the first African American female to the U.S. House of Representative by less than 400 votes.  The Constipation Party candidate peeled off about 5,000 votes.

[J P Sousa]

Third parties can't win elections in the United States. Conservatives need to do what they can to keep the Republican party from leaning too far to the left. Conservative third parties only result in the election of more Democrats.  Here in Utah, we missed the chance of electing the first African American female to the U.S. House of Representative by less than 400 votes.  The Constipation Party candidate peeled off about 5,000 votes.

So far it's not working............too many sell-outs.
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[DefiantSix]

Third parties can't win elections in the United States.

Umm, dickhead?  The Republican party was a third party, once upon a time.  The Republican party these days seems bound and determined to follow it's predecessor - that's the Whig party - into the elephant's graveyard of irrelevancy, and I for one am so pissed off at being pissed on by Repubs that I'm gladly willing to wave buh-bye to the lot of 'em.

Conservatives need to do what they can to keep the Republican party from leaning too far to the left. Conservative third parties only result in the election of more Democrats.  Here in Utah, we missed the chance of electing the first African American female to the U.S. House of Representative by less than 400 votes.  The Constipation Party candidate peeled off about 5,000 votes.

I just moved into Utah from Colorado about a year ago, just before the state was found face down in it's own vomit from drinking the Progressive Kool-Aid.  Our last gubernatorial election was between the Progressive Democrat mayor of Denver (John Hickenlooper) and a honest to God conservative former Congress critter (Tom Tancredo).  Problem was, Tom was sick of being a conservative being strong-armed by the GOP Leadership to vote for thing in contradiction to his and his constituents principles, so he ran under the Constitution party banner.  
The Republican party couldn't handle the rejection, and so they went out of state to select their candidate - a former Kansas LEO who was relieved of his credentials for using his position to extort and blackmail the average citizens with whom he interacted.  A real scumbag, by any standard you could choose. So, the GOP got this dickhead to move to Colorado and run for office as Governor, then left it at that.  They used no party money to get him elected, ran no ads supporting this scumbag.  They just made sure he was on the ballot.
Sure as shit, The scumbag did exactly what he was designed to do: he garnered about 10% of the damned vote - all of the mind-numbed zombies who continue to pull the (R) lever years after they pass beyond the veil. Hickenlooper's democrats amounted to only 46% of the voting public, according to the election results, but because the REPUBLICAN PARTY would prefer a moonbat "they can deal with" over a shake-up of the existing power structure, that was enough to land Hickenlooper in the Governor's seat.

As far as I'm concerned, the Republican party is entirely populated with untrustworthy scumbags that I wouldn't cross the street to piss on the backs of, if the sunzabitches were on fire. If you're a cheerleader for the ****in' Republican party, sweetcheeks, then you have nothing but my undying enmity.

[J P Sousa]

  Hickenlooper's democrats amounted to only 46% of the voting public, according to the election results, but because the REPUBLICAN PARTY would prefer a moonbat "they can deal with" over a shake-up of the existing power structure, that was enough to land Hickenlooper in the Governor's seat.
   

Yep, the republicans would rather have a democrat than a real conservative in office. This happens all across the USA.

And that is why I vote for third parties when the reps ignore and WORK AGAINST conservatives. 
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