If the GOP gains control of one or both Houses of Congress in the November midterm elections, and then does not make good on its promises to reverse and counter the Democrats’ socialist agenda, we could hear the death knell that signals the end of the Grand Old Party.

The wisdom of the conventional response to conservatives who threaten, out of frustration, to align with a third party is well-established by tradition and history. Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party brought the nation President Woodrow Wilson, and Ross Perot’s entry into the 1992 race elected Bill Clinton. Both were movements based on personality-in-the-moment. TR didn’t like Taft, and Perot had a grudge against Bush 41. In the 2000 election, Perot only begrudgingly endorsed George W. Bush, laying aside his animosity against the family name.

On those two occasions, when a third party played the spoiler, personality-in-the-moment was the primary driver. National circumstances and the mood of the voters are much different today.

Still feeling betrayed by the GOP’s failure to live up to its promises going back to soon after the Contract with America, conservative voters are preparing to march to the polls in decisive numbers, but not with wild-eyed enthusiasm for the GOP. As they vote to oust the current Democrat Congress, under their breath, they’ll be muttering the warning, “This is your last chance, Republicans.”

If they invest the GOP with power again only to be betrayed again, conservative voters will not passively accept the fate of having no political party in which to believe. And because their angst over the future of the country that their children and grandchildren will inherit runs deep, they won’t shrug off another betrayal as merely representing politics as usual. Not this time, for these are unusual and troubling times, and settling for politics as usual will bring intolerable consequences.

Meanwhile, there is no Summer of Recovery. The federal government continues to grow in size and influence. And the most audacious misnomer of the century to date is “bailout,” for our sinking ship of state isn’t being emptied of any water at all. Instead, Congress continues to shoot large-caliber holes into the bottom of the boat with every subsequent “bailout,” as the water level in the engine room rises ever higher.

But most readers of the American Thinker already know all that and saw it all coming. Our politically naïve friends and relatives drank the hope and change Kool-Aid, and now, along with us, they are suffering the consequences, with worse ahead. Some will admit they were conned. Many will not. But nearly all have a growing concern for the future of their country.

If the GOP wins big in November, and then retreats into a “moderate” stance — pledging to work across the aisle with Democrats to advance the country; compromising in order to tweak some of the fundamental transformation that’s been dealt to us during the last eighteen months; playing nice with the radical left, who’ve added a quarter of a million new federal workers during the Obama regime — if the GOP is DOA with regard to fulfilling its stated and implied promises to turn around the unsustainable course the nation is on, then a third party will emerge. It will draw support from both mainline parties, but it will bleed deepest into the GOP.

Today, the Tea Party isn’t configured as a political party. It’s a hydra-headed grassroots movement — one unimaginable before the days of the internet and cable news. It’s like a big, gangly, uncoordinated kid. Its leadership is local and diverse. Liberals like to say Dick Armey or others are behind it all. That’s nuts.

Its strength is gained, in part, because it lacks a single face, or even a cadre of faces. It has millions of faces. It’s not a personality-in-the-moment, like TR or Perot; it’s a purpose-in-a-movement. And the politicians of both parties fear (and often loathe) it because they can’t control it. It aims to influence the election of fiscally conservative politicians who will stop the siphoning off of the nation’s wealth by the current regime and reverse the damage done to America’s ability to create wealth in the future.

If the GOP wins in November and betrays the voters again, then the gangly teenager will morph into an adult, into a political party, because there won’t be any other choice left.

Should Republicans be in a celebratory mood on the evening of November 2, they will do well to temper their joy with this sobering thought: Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, and we’re done with you.

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This could very well happen as there are way too many narcissistic, politics above all, reach across the isle McCain-Arlene Specter type politicians around. Something the public has grown tired of and has become disgusted with what these politicians neglect to understand, unfortunately this just may contribute to their untimely demise, taking the American Dream along with it.

THINK ON THIS MESSAGE!!!

@ E Eye: Pull together people!!!
@ Joy Richards; @Cindy
@Ruth: Yes, Time to clean house

All excellent posts. Thanks for your messages,

2010 IS OUR YEAR AND 2012 TO FOLLOW.

Please don’t screw things up and We Conservative Republicans lose!

The Liberal/Socialist/Marx are just HAPPY seeing and hearing all this in fighting. Is THIS WHAT YOU WANT?

The Voters will decide and it is our duty to SUPPORT AND WORK for our Candidates.

Best regards and GOD BLESS AMERICA and the Sunshine State!

You should check out the latest polls-to follow: Despite incredibly negative adds in this campaign-which Ronald Regan would spank both candidates for-an by the way unless you forgot started by McCollum,-this is the response to them:

” With just three weeks until Election Day, and early voting beginning next week, Scott is beating McCollum in every demographic and geographic category of likely GOP voters, said Jim Lee, president of Voter Survey Service of Harrisburg, Pa., which conducted the survey.

“Most startlingly is the 50 percent negative number for McCollum. That’s a very huge red flag and suggests very little room to grow. You never want to have that going into an election,” Lee said.

The VSS survey, commissioned by Sunshine State News and conducted July 26-30, builds on results of an earlier Quinnipiac Poll that showed Scott holding an 11-point lead over McCollum. The Sunshine State News Poll is the largest sampling of likely voters — 1,345 — of any poll so far taken for a 2010 statewide election in Florida.”

-enough said!

Poll: Columbia/HCA whistleblowers stunned Rick Scott is atop Florida governor polls

BY LIZ FREEMAN Naples Daily News

Sunday, August 1, 2010

When it comes to truth, and proof everyone knows that you can’t just take someone’s word (especially not when the stakes are as high as they are at this time in our lives). I’m sure that Bill Clinton would just as vehemently deny the accusations that Rick Scott’s supporters are vehemently claiming! Since very few of us really know Rick Scott personally, why would we presume that his word is any different than Clinton’s (I’m not accusing, but none of us, who’ve not known him personally, knows how credible Mr. Scott is… that’s why we need proof of his statements!). In 38 years that I’ve been involved with the pro-life movement, no one I know among many pro-life leaders and members(throughout the state of Florida) has ever even heard of Rick Scott, a self proclaimed pro-life leader. Before the man ran for office, the average person had never heard of him…. What has Mr. Scott ever done to let people know that he cared about our country, our laws, our legislation, our morals? Why wouldn’t I question this? Why wouldn’t everyone question this? Why does that make someone who does question, dishonest?

I do not work for McCollum! I am supporting him, however. If your accusation (that I’m working for him) rings true, that because I support him I must be working for him, does this mean that because you’re trying to defend Scott that you’re working for him? Why would you make an accusation of “my dishonesty”, and that I’m “working for McCollum” based upon absolutely nothing?

And just for the record, when you say that I’m “working for” McCollum, I hope that you aren’t implying as a paid worker, because I’ve been a political activist for 38 years, and have never been paid one thin dime, nor have I taken any thing in like kind.

I check out everything that comes before me before I make a decision on whom (or what legislation) to support within this political arena, and I don’t make claims that I can’t document. I check everything out, try to educate others, and activate patriots, because America has been fighting against the slow erosion of our morals, our very foundation and our system of government for many years!

I have worked for issues relating to God, family, life, freedom and the preservation of an America left to us by our founding fathers. I’ve done this because I don’t want to leave an America (such as we’ve realized that we’ve been moving toward and are witnessing the near completion of now ) to my children, grandchildren or the families of any other American. For people who have never bothered to be involved with anything that doesn’t involve themselves, personally, that may be hard to understand, but for those of us who know that we are answerable to a God who is greater than ourselves, this is not a difficult task.