Buckley: “Standing before history and yelling stop!”…He didn’t mean start a 3rd party!
Glenn, God bless you…I pray you are NOT losing your way? You’ve done brilliant work on the Tides Foundation, Apollo Alliance, ACORN, Van Jones, Centers for American Progress etc, exposing Obama for who he truly is…No one has been better digging, exposing and investigating as you’ve been…Love it! However, yes, the big BUT is coming…
Unfortunately; I strongly disagreed with your comments to Katie Curic! You’ve become way too puritanical in your analysis after-the-facts. As Stu has told you before (paraphrasing), “the only one you could find to vote for would have to be yourself”? The problem before us today isn’t that the Republican Party positions have lost their way! It’s that the party has been infiltrated by the likes of the Mayor Bloomberg types.
At the time, these RINO’s could not have been elected under the Democrat-brand, so they jumped ship and ran as a phony Republican. All due to the unelectability of the previously tarnished brand the Democrat Party had become. I, too, have been disappointed in the McCain RINO’s of the party…The Republican Party planks are still the same-old Reagan conservative positions in the platform. We need to drive out the counterfeits and frauds from the Party and get back to rebuilding it on the back of true Reagan-conservative candidates again…as you are talking about with the Refounder movement.
What good is it to start an abstract third party instead of reforming what already exists? All you are going to get is an anemic revisitation to the Ross Perot Reform Party and the counterfeit conservative party it became, which, as an unintended consequence, got Clinton elected twice! My fear is that you believe the Libertarian Party somehow has fewer kooks than the Democrat or Republican parties have. I say NOT SO! As an example, you’ve talked to Ron Paul before…
When you compare the Libertarian and Republican Parties formally stated positions side-by-side, then it’s a different story. Oh and, how about Libertarian kook candidates like Jesse Ventura (who came out of the Reform Party)?… What? – You must be joking if you think he represents anything you wrote about in your book Common Sense?…I rest my case?…
And, NO, Sarah Palin won’t be any more electable, as is rumored, under the Libertarian Party banner. She has a better shot on the Conservative/Republican ticket as Buckley played out when he and Goldwater brought Ronald Reagan out to revitalize the Party away from the very same Rockefeller-wing RINO’s back then, as exists today in the Rep party!
Glenn, you are perfectly poised, given your “refounders” efforts, to repeat the Bill Buckley call when he said, “standing athwart History, yelling, ‘Stop,” Please don’t lead a charge for a third party, which would inadvertently help reelect Obama again?
I’ll help you anyway I can, but not under a Third Party movement!
John Yoak
Palm Desert, Ca