Majority of Republicans would support a 3rd party

[dude1984]

That is dumb...history is reliving itself to a certain degree. The GOP needs to compromise the issues and recreate themselves or a split will hand the Dems office without any real challenge.

[LuckyGem]

I have been talking to people about a 3rd viable political party in the US for at least 10 years.

I don't think the new party would be ultra right wing. It would be conservative on international, economic and national/local issues and more centrist with social issues (but definitely not left).

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Wapasha

..and the question we have to ask is, where the hell is the party of Ross Perot today? Are their people in that party complaining that the party has been co-opted?

Who is to say that some newly created third party would not end up being co-opted by another version of the linguini spined, elitist, North Eastern, blue-bloods, like the republican party was?

The answer is to aggressively take back the republican party from the brain damaged neocons and their democrat-lite politics and ideology.

The Ross Perot people of 1992-1993 are the Libertarian and Tea Party people of today. They are quite simply limited government Constitutional conservatives who have concluded neither Democrats nor Republicans represent them, so they have taken the initiative to represent themselves.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by LuckyGem

I don't think the new party would be ultra right wing. It would be conservative on international, economic and national/local issues and more centrist with social issues (but definitely not left).

depending on how far back they're standing...
that 'centrist' won't be distinguished from a 'left'

The centrist position on the abortion rights arguments:
1) identifies the argument and supports the public policy position as being about the woman's "right to choose" rather than being about abortion itself

2) embraces 'safe, legal and rare' as the basis to guide policy choices including funding... specifically by ramping up access to sex education and contraceptive services to avoid the underlying pregnancy in the first place

3) acknowledges that the efforts to make access to abortion services expensive and inconvenient are the real cause for most of the late term abortions virtually everyone is horrified by

4) would accept a limit on late term abortions (except with doctor etc yadda yadda) if there was some way to be sure such wouldn't get used as a wedge to restrict other types by future legislation.

5) will consider expanding federal funding for services

6) leaves all the rest of the arguments and discussions out of the public forum and focuses instead o the actual business of government

(I think that covers it all)
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So how many of the people you might want to think of as being 'centrist' are really something other than that?