The GOP is in shambles. They couldn’t beat the most beatable President of the past hundred years. There is talk here and there of leaving the party or forming a new one. Bad ideas. A politician here or there won’t make a noticeable difference and will be vulnerable in the next election.
But what if everyone does it?
I think the thing to do is for the Senators and Congressmen who are fed up with the GOP to get together and jump ship at the same time. Rather than reinvent the wheel, the thing to do is to join an existing party–preferably the Libertarian Party. It would be a force to reckon with from the start. Something’s got to give.
The Libertarian party is the natural home of disgruntled Republicans. The focus on low taxes, small government, and individual freedom and responsibility fit perfectly for most reasonable people who want to live their lives without the government intrusion, which is creeping in.
The GOP swayed dangerously off course during the GWB years by embracing big government programs and veering into more and more intrusions into personal freedom. The embrace of the state over the individual made the Republican party barely indistinguishable from the Democrats. It is time to return to the natural place and uphold the individual over the state!
Dems and Repubs are two sides of the same filthy coin. Their main disagreement is what to spend our money on.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Maybe around March.
The Senate belongs to Dems, so not much to do there. In order to influence the House, we need to alter the balance by controlling at least 17 seats. I think that’s do-able. Using that bloc of 17 votes can swing the majority. Even better would be if that group could control at least 33 seats, which would put the Dems and Repubs even at 201, which would be a much more powerful group. The first scenario would impact Repubs most; the second would impact Dems and Repubs alike.
The unfortunate reality is the threat of a group like that trading pork. In theory, a group that went to that extreme would be adverse to such a deal, but human nature and slippery slopes would keep it a threat, although probably not a serious one in the current session of Congress.