Victor Davis Hansen has a new column, in which he gives us his valuable insights into current events. He notes that in 19 months Obama has blown a 70% approval rating, and is now headed under 40%, which George W. Bush took six years to get to.
Yes, the "proverbial" people are angry. I, for one, as someone who prides himself in being an independent thinker and actor, do not feel represented by either political party. Although the time for a third party may be right, the problem with starting a third party, though, is that, as Fred Brown writes in today's Denver Post, "centrists don't have much passion going for them." The Republican Party is being led to its fringes by the passionate participants in their primaries, and the Democrats, under the finger of puppet master George Soros, have long since gone over the left cliff.
Those of us who find ourselves being left behind by both political parties, are scolded by those who have blindly followed and cheered on one or the other of those parties as they lost relevance. Yet, will third party candidates like Tom Tancredo articulate a positive platform in which they tell us what they are for? Or, will they, as Brown believes, tend to be defined by what they are against, rather than what they are for?
The Tea Party, with better articulated goals, i.e. constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and state's rights might make a decent run at a third party, though I don't think it would stand a chance as labeled. But, with 25% of the people who claim to be members and another 40% of the people who are not members, but identify with the ideals of the Tea Party, it probably stands the best chance, though it would have to be labeled differently so as to dump the negatives built into the brand.
ReplyDeleteI think this will grow in momentum after the Novemeber elections while the Tea Party is still trying to work within the framework of the two parties.
Despite the popular view pushed by the MSM, the Tea Party attracts Libertarians, Independents and disaffected Democrats to a tune of nearly 40% of the overall movement. That is territory neither the Republicans nor the Democrats can reach.