It’s been less than 24 hours since the polls closed and already the first shots in an emerging civil war within the conservative movement are being fired. Right-leaning pundits have been taking turns beating up on Mitt Romney and blaming him for the loss last night. Donald Trump just tweeted, “Congrats to @KarlRove on blowing $400 million this cycle. Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads in, the Republicans lost. What a waste of money.” And GOP leaders are already taking to the barricades on either side of the divide, which basically comes down to this question: Were Romney and the GOP too conservative or not conservative enough?
Steve Schmidt, a top Republican strategist who ran John McCain’s 2008 campaign, invoked the term on MSNBC this morning. “When I talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, what I mean is, it’s time for Republican elected leaders to stand up and to repudiate this nonsense [of the extreme right wing], and to repudiate it directly,” he said.
But on the other side of the fight, Herman Cain, the former presidential candidate who still has a robust following via his popular talk radio program and speaking tours, today suggested the most clear step to open civil war: secession. Appearing on Bryan Fischer’s radio program this afternoon, Cain called for a large faction of Republican Party leaders to desert the party and form a third, more conservative party.
“I never thought that I would say this, and this is the first time publicly that I’ve said it: We need a third party to save this country. Not Ron Paul and the Ron Paulites. No. We need a legitimate third party to challenge the current system that we have, because I don’t believe that the Republican Party … has the ability to rebrand itself,” Cain said.
Read More at salon.com . By Alex Aeitz-Wald.
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Two words: Constitution Party
Another GOP gimmick in the making : a third party that will allow them to rebrand themselves because the GOP brand can no longer be rebranded. WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLCRAP!!! The only legitimate Third Party would be a Third Party that follows the US Constitution and utterly despises both of the other two parties that now openly commit High Treason.
If Herman Cain is talking about a third party of people with morals who follow the Constitution, who love God, and each other, obey the law, I am in. If he and other Republicans are talking about changing ourselves into a reincarnation of the Democrats, they can count me out. I will not compromise my morals and convictions to win an election. Maybe a third party is the answer. The Republican Party of today doesn't seem to have much use for us except to do the grunge work.
i agree with you guys! will the media and soros go for that though?