Ace of
my favorite blog, The Ace of Spades (Language warning always), yesterday
announced that he’s done with the GOP:
. . . There are only so many times one can say "I'm quitting
this party and will henceforth only support third party candidates."
Well, I have said it. Many of us have. We mean it. And it's over.
Go ahead and do what you like, GOP. The divorce is final.
Republican No More; done with the party http://t.co/qMnXnCMNb3
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 8, 2013
My
response:
@AceofSpadesHQ I'm not quite 3rd party yet. But I understand & am getting closer to that point. Intend to fight for @SenRandPaul 1st.
— WannabeAnglican (@WannabeAnglican) August 8, 2013
Going
third party is not a decision to be taken lightly. For it helps short-term the major party you most
dislike. (Do I really have to tell
readers which one that is for me?)
Yes, lightning could strike as it looked like it might for a brief time
in 1992 and as it did in New York State in 1970. But my going third party would likely help the Democrats
short term.
But
there may come a point when supporting the Republican Party is unacceptable as
well. Ronald Reagan is the last
Republican President who got this country going in a good direction. Under the Bushes, we headed toward
Gehenna, just a bit slower than a Democrat would have pushed us. And we would surely head toward Gehenna
under a Jeb Bush or a Chris Christie.
Yes, a Bush or Christie would slow the process.
But
when the country is on the precipice of Hell, is going over it more slowly
acceptable? Thanks to past
Republican enabling and to the Obama regime, we are on the edge of the Hell of
a not-so-soft totalitarian tyranny.
Going over that edge slowly is not acceptable. And a party who is not committed to pulling back and going
in the other direction towards freedom, the rule of Constitutional law, and
putting the Feds in their proper place is not a party I can support.
I do
think the Republican Party can still be a constructive force for freedom as it
was under Reagan. Rand Paul gives
me hope for that.
But if
yet another establishment Republican gets the nomination for president, that
may be my last straw. At that
point, I may go third party.
Some
may say that is self-defeating.
Heck, I would have said that until recently. But 2012 showed establishment Republicans do not have enough
support to win long term anyway.
The low turn-out for Romney illustrated that too well. And look at the comments to Ace’s
announcement. These are people who
Republicans should have fighting for them. Instead the Republican Party has already alienated them.
The U.
S. is divided roughly between those who think government should provide stuff and those
who think government should protect Constitutional freedom. Those who think government should
provide stuff are going to vote Democrat anyway. If the Republican Party will not protect freedom, if it will
not fight for those who want freedom, then it deserves the doom it will then
surely get.
And
Republican leaders again and again seem intent on alienating their freedom-minded
base and on self-destruction.
Their push for amnesty for illegals is but one example. Again and again, they enable Democrat
big government tyranny instead of working to bring it down.
So the
Republicans are heading to the Whig party anyway unless Constitutionalist conservatives are able soon to take it
over. And I am staying in the GOP
for now to do my part. And there
are many good Republicans like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee. And I will always support them in some
fashion even if I go third party.
But
one can only wait so long when one sees one’s country on the edge of the
darkness of a permanent tyranny. If the Republican Party continues to
enable tyranny, then I cannot continue to support it.
I was
going to write about what I think is a good model for a third party, but that
will have to wait. I’ve rambled
enough already.
No comments:
Post a Comment