Re: The Time For A Conservative Party

By A.P. Dil­lon

Da Tech Guy recently wrote about it being time in this coun­try for a 3^rd party — a Con­ser­v­a­tive party. Take a moment to go read the whole thing before pro­ceed­ing as I won’t totally rehash what he said in that arti­cle, but the gen­eral thrust can be found in a cou­ple of the open­ing paragraphs:

I’m done ask­ing peo­ple to vote for the GOP, I’m done com­pro­mis­ing on issues dear to me and I’m done push­ing can­di­dates that are will­ing to say one thing when they want my vote but not will­ing to act once they have power.

The party seems to for­get the rea­son they have a con­gres­sional major­ity is not due to their own actions but the actions of others.

Now I’ll weigh in.

Am I happy with the Repub­li­can party on the whole these day? No.

Do I think a third party or Con­ser­v­a­tive party is the answer? Yes, with an aster­isk. I think we already have one and it’s tucked inside the cur­rent GOP.

Do I think it’s going to hap­pen? Not with­out a seri­ous fight — both with estab­lish­ment GOP and the media.

I’m not afraid of a good fight, but I think the fight has to be waged on a dif­fer­ent front. Con­ser­v­a­tives sim­ply tak­ing our toys and going home isn’t going to get the coun­try where needs to be. Yeah, I’m a ‘take it back’ believer — we should purge instead of leaving.

I’ve had this debate with my hus­band and var­i­ous con­ser­v­a­tive friends here in North Car­olina on more than a few occa­sions. I’ve had the same frus­tra­tions Da Tech Guy lays out in his article.

I’ve kicked the idea around quite a bit and tra­versed pre­vi­ous his­tor­i­cal tran­si­tions in the polit­i­cal par­ties and con­tem­plated the Third party sys­tems of this coun­try as well. The idea is appeal­ing and change is clearly needed if the cur­rent cli­mate and push for can­di­dates from dynas­tic polit­i­cal fam­i­lies is any indi­ca­tion. One could arguably call these his­tor­i­cal tran­si­tions a shift in party per­son­al­ity. Right now, this country’s polit­i­cal par­ties have severe per­son­al­ity disorders.

Hav­ing said that, I’ve devel­oped the opin­ion that what might have worked in this country’s past won’t work today with­out sig­nif­i­cant money and a strong coor­di­nated effort in every sin­gle state. I believe that change has to come from within, but the idea of it com­ing from out­side is a nice threat.

The idea that Democ­rats will embrace this effort is cor­rect as a way to cre­ate con­flict and under­mine the Repub­li­cans is spot on. One has to fac­tor in how the Democ­rats will work side by side with the main­stream media.

The Democ­rats and the media will join hands to drive that con­flict. It wouldn’t be crazy to say that joint effort could really crip­ple the effec­tive­ness in pur­su­ing a third party. Just think back as to how effec­tive the media was direct­ing the nar­ra­tive on the Tea Party, you racists.

A.P. Dil­lon resides in the Tri­an­gle area of North Car­olina and is the founder of LadyLib​er​ty1885​.com. Her cur­rent and past writ­ing can also be found at IJ Review, Stop​Com​mon​CoreNC​.org, Watch­dog­WireNC and Wiz­Bang. Her cur­rent writ­ing project is a children’s book series.