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I wanted to comment on the Kevin Thompson’s leaving the CP and Red Phillips response to it. Like Red, I too believe non-major parties can be useful if they are used in the right manner and organized in the right way.
I have written about such uses for non-major parties and I agree such parties should not just use ideology as their sole building block. American political parties have alwasy been building blocks for various communities of interest. The weakest parties, you will find, are those only based on dogma and ideology. Every left-wing and right-wing splinter group can attest to that.
Actually, why leave the party at all? What law says you can’t be a member of two parties? Hmm? I am not a full member of the CP, but I affiliate with it. I also do the same with the LP and the GOP. I’m like old Raymond Burr in those Independent insurance business commercials, I don’t represent one party, I represent many. Kevin Thompson can do so too. No one is stopping him.
Without the CP or the LP around, there’s nothing stopping the GOP from going fully neocon. The Ron Paul Movement has made extraordinary progress within the GOP since it first started in December 2006 but it still has a long way to go and there is no guarantee it will get to where its going.
Using activists from small parties to influence a bigger one way non-major parties can be used effectively. Winning local elections, especially for non-partisan offices is another. Influence local communities so that policy is changed from the ground up should be the main goal for non-major parties.
Too many people in this country talk about political parties in the same manner that socialists do. They hold them sacred. The Founding Fathers would have said nonsense. Non-major parties keep our political system open and fluid. Without them, we would be at the mercy of a highly centralized duopoly. For the sake of our Republic alone, we need more than two choices. Whether or not Chuck Baldwin would have made a good President, your work and my work to get him on the ballot and have him as a choice for those not wishing to hold their nose and waste a vote on McCain, was very important.
RedPhillips on 14 Jul 2010 at 11:00 pm #
Thanks for the reply Patroon.
“What law says you can’t be a member of two parties?
I actuallly do think it is illegal in some states to be a member of more than one party, or at least to participate in more than one convention or something along those lines.
Citizens For A Better Veterans Home on 15 Jul 2010 at 7:07 am #
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[refTlk] The OTHER CP, the Conservative Party, July 23rd National Convention
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From:
Citizens For A Better Vets WeThePeopleCoalition_California@egroups.com; ReformTalk@yahoogroups.com
Hey http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com
‘Democans and Republicrats suck’, [Lake]
// Jul 14, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I pretty much agree with every thing this guy said. How ever, he failed to mention the Republican Party like actions / neglect of the eroding, failing, imploding (so called) Constitution Party.
Instead of mumbling and fumbling (like the former U. S. Tax Payer Party, i. e.
CP), why can’t these folks reach out to national AIP (Keyes) and or California
AIP (Robinson) for coordination and cooperation? Huh?
Like the fake veterans advocates and faux small government types of the
Constitution Party, the Conservative Party rales against the federal government
while embracing the federal Eagle and Eagle Head! Duh?
At least the American’s Independent Party has the stylish Lone Star and Wavy
Stripes. Point Keyes!
Citizens For A Better
Veterans Home, struggling to warn the public about the ongoing failure of
veterans programs, not just more lethal, politicized, uncaring programs that
create hack patronage jobs, spend taxes in constituent communities, while doing
little or nothing for real veterans, their real families, with their real
problems……
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Citizens For A Better Veterans Home on 15 Jul 2010 at 7:30 am #
Dear Constitution Party Members,
This letter comes after much prayer, thought and discussion. I have decided that it would be best to conduct my political activity within the Republican Party. This was not an easy decision, but it is one on which I am confident. Let me reasons for leaving the party.
(1) For quite some time, I have been growing disenchanted with the Constitution Party.
———– Kevin Thompson
Captainchaos on 15 Jul 2010 at 9:51 am #
“For the sake of our Republic alone, we need more than two choices.”
Um, what Republic? Seems to me we should acquire one before we can speak of “[f]or the sake of our Republic”. But that would mean…
“one party”
Nothing wrong per se with one-party rule, or one-Leader rule for that matter.
RedPhillips on 15 Jul 2010 at 8:50 pm #
What did CHT do to deserve Don Lake’s unintelligible rants? If the CP wants to descend into total irrelevance all it needs to do is follow Mr. Lake’s advice and side with the rump Keyes faction.