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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Definately we need a third party,the dems &repubs are two peas in a pod. However,right now is when we should be organizing it,not a few months before an election. It needs to be well established long before the election. Also,baring a third party,we need to stop letting the lamestream media &the repub establishment pick our candidates. I can't really blame the newscasters for doing this,I know a few newscasters &they are threatened with the loss of their jobs or harm to their family if they don't lie. Some of them have quit &gone to other professions out fear.