What if we resurrected the Democratic-Republican Party?

What if we resurrected the Democratic-Republican Party?

  • Great idea.

    Votes: 16 32.7%
  • I'm open to it.

    Votes: 20 40.8%
  • Horrible idea.

    Votes: 13 26.5%

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    49
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I'm not actually advocating anything serious right now, but the thought crossed my mind...

What if we were to resurrect the Democratic-Republican Party that Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe founded as sort of a broad libertarian-minded unity party, and encouraged the Libertarians, the Constitution Partyists, the Reform Partyists, independents, the anti-war Republicans, and the more libertarian blue dog Democrats to join? It doesn't seem like it would be unreasonable to suspect that we could cobble together a pretty hefty sized party.

These days, 50-60% of Americans long for a viable third party (http://www.pollingreport.com/institut2.htm). Recent polling data show that between 25-30% of those who call themselves Republicans oppose the war in Iraq and disapprove of the neocon Bush administration (http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm). As recently as 1992, 19% of voters were willing to (and actually did) cast their votes for a third party presidential candidate. Tons of Democrats are disillusioned with their party for failing to forcefully oppose the war as well as the growing surveillance state and the government's spy powers. Throw in the Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, and disaffected, libertarian-minded independents who haven't found a party they like yet.

We could form a party with clear libertarian principles that advocates strict constitutionalism in government, with a religion-neutral policy (which would be more welcoming to those who'd like to join the Constitution Party but find the religionism a bit overwhelming), that is not afraid to strongly oppose the war(s) and the spy state. Including the names "Democrat" and "Republican" in the same phrase would also help connect to the roots of both major parties, would make modern Democrats and Republicans feel more comfortable about entering, and the name of course would sound a lot less fringe. If we play our cards right, we could attract a huge chunk of American voters.

Just a thought.
 
I'm all for this. How do we set this up so that it is different from other third party attempts. I would be 100% behind this after what we experienced in Nevada with the GOP assh---s
 
I'm all for this. How do we set this up so that it is different from other third party attempts. I would be 100% behind this after what we experienced in Nevada with the GOP assh---s

I imagine that the best way would be to overwhelm the existing GOP by a flood of Constructionists, unseat the entire establishmet, take over the National Committee, and impose a name change from the leadership to be accorded at the next RNC Convention. :D
 
If you stop insulting me for once, you will notice that I have been an advocate for this for a long, long time.

I am 100% in favor of this... Absolutely.
 
I imagine that the best way would be to overwhelm the existing GOP by a flood of Constructionists, unseat the entire establishmet, take over the National Committee, and impose a name change from the leadership to be accorded at the next RNC Convention. :D

Never gonna happen, even if we had 75% of the party grassroots behind us.
 
And that is what they will continue to do if we don't form our own party.
We need to stop looking through only one side of the tube.
Yes, we are now more experiencied and know what to look for but so do they.
They stopped at nothing, including criminal actions to thwart our actions and will do so again. and again. and again.
I think we need a new approach, fresh ideas.
A new party sounds great right now.
 
And that is what they will continue to do if we don't form our own party.
We need to stop looking through only one side of the tube.
Yes, we are now more experiencied and know what to look for but so do they.
They stopped at nothing, including criminal actions to thwart our actions and will do so again. and again. and again.
I think we need a new approach, fresh ideas.
A new party sounds great right now.

I think a new party with the appropriate management can pick up a house seat per million dollars it spends on campaigning. That would vary state-to-state with Senate seats, of course. If a new party could get 10-20 seats in the House in 2010, and two or three in the Senate, I think it'd be considered viable in 2012 with the proper funding.
 
I think a new party with the appropriate management can pick up a house seat per million dollars it spends on campaigning. That would vary state-to-state with Senate seats, of course. If a new party could get 10-20 seats in the House in 2010, and two or three in the Senate, I think it'd be considered viable in 2012 with the proper funding.

We could do it cheaper or even free with online targeted market. We haven't even begun to utilize online strategy this season. Most of what we did this election was online publicity, not targeted marketing.
 
We could do it cheaper or even free with online targeted market. We haven't even begun to utilize online strategy this season. Most of what we did this election was online publicity, not targeted marketing.

I think that would be an integral part of the strategy, but TV and radio ads are still the most effective medium.
 
We won them (well, 73/86). We got to the State convention and they just gaveled their way out of anything that might have been embarrassing.

That was your state convention? 159 Attending? At 107 then you would have a super majority. So bring 21 more voters to your next state convention and unseat the chair first off. Replace with your own Parlimentarian immediately, and you control the gavel.

8-)

Even with only a simple majority, you could have done anything you wanted to if you knew (and your chair recognized) Robert's Rules.

But 2009 is special. it is the election of all the party chairpersons. The executives who actually run the GOP. So bring 21 more voters, and now your own guy owns the state GOP.
 
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