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Dear Brigade,
Excellent comment and column - fyi.
GO PAT GO!!
Linda
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Linda,
I want to thank you for what you are doing. Every morning when I get to
work and check my email, I look forward to getting your posts. In addition
to the valuable service you are providing, you seem like a very neat and
interesting person.
I just turned 30 last weekend, and I have never voted or even registered
to vote, in a presidential election. I have however, followed Pat's
columns, TV appearances, and candidacies over the years. I even went to
the airport in Tulsa one year to meet him and shake his hand. Anyways, if
Pat makes a serious go of this third party thing, I may actually go down
and vote for the first time. Understand that I don't take this lightly.
Voting is practically against my religion, based on how thoroughly mad and
disillusioned I am with the status quo.
Below is an article you probably already have. Limbaugh was complaining
yesterday that even though he "loves Pat", we should go ahead and vote for
a Clinton copy, because it's more important to have a president of a
certain party, than it is to have a president that might actually turn
this country around. The following article addresses that idea:
The GOP's Third Party Excuse
A popular talk show host -- I won't mention his name --
was lamenting (again) yesterday that the reason why Bill
Clinton is in office is because third party candidate
Ross Perot "spoiled" the 1992 and 1996 elections.
Consequently, he warned his audience, if a prominent
third party candidate again makes the 2000 election
scene, Republicans are in danger of losing the White
House once more. That, he admonishes, can't be allowed
to happen because ... well, he never really elaborated
on the "why."
This is nothing but an excuse, and frankly, it's getting
old
-- no disrespect to the host intended.
If you're like me, you're sick and tired of hearing
Republicans and their cheerleaders whine about losing
the White House because of a third party candidate. Buck
up, boys and girls; you didn't lose because of a "third
party candidate." You lost because you allowed too many
Americans to entertain the notion of a third party
candidate.
Republicans still don't get this phenomenon but really,
it's quite simple. If the mainstream candidacies of
George Bush (Sr.) and Bob Dole had been more -- well --
conservative, then fewer people would have felt the need
to leave the GOP in the first place. Republicans don't
need to blame Perot or -- if he goes, Buchanan --
because of the popularity of their third party
candidacies. They need to blame themselves for chasing
these people away with left-leaning shifts to the
pro-choice, pro-gun control and pro-government crowd
(read: Democrats).
I didn't see any prominent third party challenge to
Ronald Reagan's presidential candidacies -- I wonder why
that was? It's because Reagan, for his faults -- real
and perceived -- was indeed a real conservative.
My advice to the Republicans is this: If you want to
keep your core constituency from abandoning the party
once again in 2000 and "spoiling" your chances for
victory, then quit alienating them by trying to emulate
the
"moderate" wing of the Democratic Party. It makes
conservatives view you as exactly the same party as the
Democrats. And why vote for more Democrats -- just
because they have an "R" after their name?
No one wants a true conservative in the White House more
than me, but I don't want a repackaged moderate made to
look conservative for another four -- or even eight --
years. We've just gone through two presidential terms
filled with abject socialism; we need to balance that
with two or more terms of in-your-face, abject
conservatism. That may not happen if the Republicans
don't nominate one -- and soon.
Jon E. Dougherty is a contributing editor to
WorldNetDaily.
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