America needs a new conservative party

I believe in conservative values, but I find myself increasingly at odds with the Republican Party. I hear it often said that it is useless to have a third party in this country.

Conservatives are told to just shut up and stay in the Republican Party and work to change it. Well, I’ve stayed. I’ve tried to change it. I haven’t seen change and I’m sick of it. I’m jumping ship to a third party. The problem is the party hasn’t been created yet.

Sure, I hear the rhetoric and I believe that a conservative party would never get elected to Congress or the White House at this present time. That doesn’t mean we do nothing though. We need to create a conservative party that could take a huge bulk of the numbers from the GOP and probably a few of the Democrats.

When the South started to lean Republican in the 1960s the party originally represented strong conservative values. Now, however, I am sad to say there is no real difference between the Republicans and Democrats. This is why we desperately need a third party.

The state of American politics can be summed up simply: One party spends money, the other party spends more. One party passes a bailout plan, the other passes a bigger one. One party passes the Patriot Act, the other attempts passage of government-run health care. Both parties are killing democracy.

The American right is finally waking up and, yes, finally fighting back. The Tea Parties are just the beginning of the extraordinary grassroots efforts to create an uprising in Washington. Anti-war protestors had great successes in getting through to President George W. Bush and conservatives can reap similar success.

To the conservatives sitting on the sidelines, I challenge them to pick a side. We’ve waited for the party to change its ways and it hasn’t happened. It’s time, right now, to forget compromise, forget caving under pressure and put up a fight.

The next few years may be rough, but that doesn’t mean we should sit back and take the punishment. It’s time to take back our values, salvage what’s left of our party, and yes, rescue our country. It’s time to take back America. Who’s with me?

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Nov 6 2009. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry