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A Third Party

Fil-TX Wrote: Nov 10, 2012 8:15 AM

Was Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and other senators with the R behind their name, part of the "right wing of the GOP"? They could be counted on to vote with opposition very regularly. Mike, you are correct: "You can't slide a piece of paper between the GOP and democrat". We already have an "independent" wing of the GOP and look where it's gotten us. Either we are conservative or we are not. We can't be just a little bit pregnant(but with the democrat's programs of "free" birth control), we just might be.

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A Third Party

During the Q & A section of my speech to the Chamber group here last night, someone asked what I thought about the concept of a third party to counter the influence of the right wing of the Republican Party.

If there were a true independent third party in the U.S. House and Senate of, say, 10 percent of the membership that would mean 43 Members in the House and 10 Senators.

It is unlikely that either Republicans or Democrats would have enough votes to organize either Chamber without the buy-in of the independents.

Or, put another way,...

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