Sarah Palin: Politically Homeless

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Over the weekend, Palin responded to a question about whether she would consider starting a new "Freedom Party" with radio host Mark Levin.

"I love the name of that party – the 'Freedom Party,'" she said. "And if the GOP continues to back away from the planks in our platform, from the principles that built this party of Lincoln and Reagan, then, yeah, more and more of us are going to start saying, 'You know, what's wrong with being independent,' kind of with that libertarian streak that much of us have. In other words, we want government to back off and not infringe upon our rights."

She added: "I think there will be a lot of us who start saying 'GOP, if you abandon us, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in a one or the other private majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or a Republican.'"

Big problem with Palin's psuedo-thinking above is that her political ideology is neither strong enough to attract the $$ it'd take to begin forming a new Party, nor is she less of a collectivist enough to actually exist as a true independent...

...and, no other Partys anywhere close to being on her side of the still-statist fence seems interested in her at all:

"[W]hile a few of Sarah Palin's views are aligned with those of the Libertarian Party, her pro-interventionist foreign policy, her support of the 2008 Republican-led bailouts, her loyal support of Big Government Republicans, her social conservative agenda and her lack of concrete backing for any serious downsizing of Big Government runs afoul of the Libertarian Party's goals and most Libertarians' views," the Libertarian Party's executive director, Carla Howell, told U.S. News.

"The Reform Party would probably have zero interest in Sarah Palin," Reform Party Chairman David Collison told U.S. News. "The primary reason is that we are not really as closely aligned with the tea party as people would think."

Statist RINOs to the left of her and statist wannabes on her right; poor 'ol Sarah...

...that's what you get for so ambitiously taking second-fiddle in the GOP to a bozo like John McClain.

If Ted Cruz is as smart as his resume reads...

...he'll do well to distance himself as far away as possible from this sellout once-star whose flame-out is only beginning its next powerful stage, and he'd also do well to announce soon that he has no true political ambition to be President because he was not born in America and his father wasn't an American citizen when Cruz the younger was born.


http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/wa...arian-streak-doesnt-impress-libertarian-party

 

[renard_ruse]

Libertarians are an irrelevance. I'm not sure why you would think that Palin would have less following than libertarians. They get what, about 1% of the vote in most national elections, despite decades of working to promote their party.

There are however, millions of people who feel politically homeless. The whole remnant of the Buchanan movement from the 90s has not disappeared, it just more lost than ever. Combine that with the growing number of conservatives leaving the GOP by the day, and there is plenty of basis for a new party.

 

[renard_ruse]

And its "socially conservative" not "social conservative."

 

[KingOrfeo]

Libertarians are an irrelevance. I'm not sure why you would think that Palin would have less following than libertarians. They get what, about 1% of the vote in most national elections, despite decades of working to promote their party.

There are however, millions of people who feel politically homeless. The whole remnant of the Buchanan movement from the 90s has not disappeared, it just more lost than ever. Combine that with the growing number of conservatives leaving the GOP by the day, and there is plenty of basis for a new party.

Well, Buchanan already has his own party, but it doesn't seem to be getting anywhere at all. Maybe it would, if it merged with the Constitution Party and the Tea Party. Or maybe not.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Big problem with Palin's psuedo-thinking above is that her political ideology is neither strong enough to attract the $$ it'd take to begin forming a new Party, nor is she less of a collectivist enough to actually exist as a true independent...

So who is?

 

[KingOrfeo]

And its "socially conservative" not "social conservative."

Nah, "socially conservative" just means you have old-fashioned manners and you're picky about who you hang out with. It does not necessarily mean you do not blow them, etc.