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If I didn't think I'd be dead before a third party had a chance to develop into anything, I'd give up on these idiots entirely.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.” (don't forget "ugly")

And spare me the Conservative Party talk. By the time you had any power you'd be looking to win seats in a quasi-parliament, if not an actual one. The changes the socialist democrat party in America want would go forward more quickly than you could ever organize a real alternative. And you'd weaken the GOP in every election for decades.

As if they need the help.

Comments

[mark l.]

it is pretty funny.

to be honest, there have been so many 'shotguns at the wedding' where the gop has been able to win, what's one more?

[man_in_tx]

I'd say that Rush is clearly in the right on this one. A huge misstep for Michael Steele -- one from which he may (or not) be able to recover.

[Robohobo]

Try the Constitution Party. Good fundamentals in that one. What is to say we cannot force the GoP to adopt more of their platforms?

As for Steele, I predict that his will be a VERY short tenure. He just self destructed.

Last week Derbyshire was SOOOOO condescending in a piece at NRO that that elitist bunch can go ahead and join Christo Buckley as the moderate arm of the Dhimmicrats/Demonrats. Screw them and their elitist attitudes.

[13yankeebravo]

Rush is right why do the Republicans try to be Democrat-lite when the voter if they want that style can vote for the real thing. But the way a lot of Democrats run in State elections is to run as more fiscaly conservitive than the Republicans and they win that way. That tells me that if the Republicans run as fiscaly conservitive and govern as such they will come back into power.

[Steven Den Beste]

Duverger's Law, unfortunately:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_Law

[seekeronos]

Got my "bug-out bag" packed and some cash earmarked for tickets to Japan.

I'm *extremely* pessimistic about the future of this republic.

The Constitution Party has some great ideas - they are the ideas of the GOP: before FDR came in and wrecked this country with his socialist and interventionist ideas.

They haven't got a prayer. God has turned His back upon this nation for its wickedness and its sin.

The future of this nation belongs to the limousine liberals and the super-elite socialists who are comfortably shielded from the rest of us would-be serfs in their utopian vision of bringing the USA into a People's Paradise™.

Those who remember and long after the Liberties our forefathers fought for and loved will be permanently disenfranchised as the Dems consolidate their power for now until forever, turning us into a single-party nation much like the Red Chinese.

If anything, it would be a stroke of mercy that Obama and the DemCong bring us to such a point that the Western states (sans California) and the South secede from the Union, leaving behind a Stalinist rump USA on the northern East Coast and Great Lakes.

It will be ugly times indeed, considering that the bulk of our land based strategic weapons are in the Northwest.

[mark l.]

"Got my "bug-out bag" packed and some cash earmarked for tickets to Japan."

the japanese 'bug-out' plan?

australia.

[mark l.]

seekeronos,
I do agree with the global pessimism.

Putin is going to push into the Ukraine in the fall.

Most of the former bloc countries are destabilized, western europe is going to ignore their problems to save their own asses. The ukrainian govt is teetering as we speak, starting before the finaicial crisis.

Obama is more than willing to follow europes lead when dealing with putin, and they won't want to incur the expense of saving the ukraine. Obama has admitted that he would back off the ukraine in the case of missile defense for help on Iran. Putin knows that obama would not pursue a conflict with Iran, and by logic, interprets Obama having completely given up on defending the Ukraine.

Russia will fall apart unless it saves the price of its only export, energy(gas and oil). In good times, they'd make a play for the Ukraine on principle. In bad times, they'll make the play out of a need for survival.

Obama will be bringing the cold war back.

[seekeronos]

"--- the japanese 'bug-out' plan?

australia. ---"

Australia itself is in a bad spot, as Islamists there threaten to put the entire continent to Jihad.

The Japanese for their part, do a much better job of keeping third-world riff-raff out of their territory.

That being said, I'll agree that the Japanese national debt is not very pretty at all.

But unlike us, they are coming out of their lost decade-and-a-half, whereas the USA is just getting started. More than likely, they will partner with the Red Chinese and the Taiwanese and India to revive the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", though such an entity would naturally be lead by Red China.

Moreover, the Japanese have held on to a culture of personal and familial frugality that we have long since abandoned as a nation.

[mark l.]

"Australia itself is in a bad spot, as Islamists there threaten to put the entire continent to Jihad."
population?
21 million. I don't think Islam even know of its existence. Maybe some anecdotes, but it is tucked in the corner of the world.

The japanese aren't going to flee their govt, but they have been pretty pragmatic about major earthquakes destroying their country. If there is a major diaspora, it will be australia.