Why I Don’t Advocate a Third Party

We are hearing more and more talk about why conservatives should leave the GOP and form a third party—a Rino –free zone where genuinely conservative policies will dictate the party platform. On the surface this is a very tempting strategy. I, for one, would love to leave the Karl Roves, Jeb Bushes and Chris Christies so far back in the dust that they would become only vague memories. I would love to belong to a party where the likes of Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Ken Cuccinelli, Mike Lee and Sarah Palin are making the policies; however, when I look at our current situation through the lens of reality, I must admit that such a party would be doomed before it began.

 

The United States has always had a two-party system. Of course, we have the occasional professional presidential candidate who, although he has zero chance of winning, runs every four years until he either runs out of other people’s money, becomes so much an object of ridicule that he is no longer taken seriously by anyone, or both. Remember Lyndon LaRouche, Ralph Nader and Ross Perot? While LaRouche was considered a nut job by pretty much everyone until he finally went to prison for charging thousands of unauthorized dollars to donors’ credit cards, Nader and Perot both garnered small followings and might have been able to make serious runs if they had worked to secure the nomination as candidates within one of the major parties.

 

As we look at the Republican Party of 2013 it is difficult not to be discouraged. When Obama chooses two of our senior senators as his emissaries to Egypt we naturally shake our heads in discouragement knowing that the men who should be leading the conservative charge are too busy making kissy face with a left wing president who is focused on driving the country over a cliff to get this country back on the right track.

 

So, what do we do? Do we buy into the “lesser of two evils” propaganda and give up our dream of a party led by conservatives? No! We do not. We treat our party the same way we treat our homes.

 

Imagine that one day a family purchases their “dream house” complete with polished wood floors, gleaming granite countertops, high end kitchen appliances, and spa-like bathrooms that remind them of a five-star hotel. Every day they wake up feeling like the luckiest people in the world as they enjoy the beauty and comforts of their home. But one day some distant cousins come for a “visit” and simply move in. Since they are family, the homeowners tolerate the cousins for several months. Then one day as the homeowners survey their surroundings they realize that the cousins have taken over their beautiful home. Because the cousins do not value the home, it has become dirty. The floors are covered with dusty tracks; the granite countertops are sticky with fingerprints and spilled food; the appliances need a good cleaning, and the luxury bathrooms are covered with soap scum and water spots. At that point the homeowners have two choices: They can settle for living in a house that has fallen into a disgraceful state as they surrender more and more square footage to the cousins, or they can evict the cousins and take back their house.

 

Our party is like that house; it has everything it needs to be just about perfect. However, we have allowed it to be taken over by those who do not value the Constitution and do not share our belief in limited, conservative government. We have allowed it to become soiled with liberal thinking and liberal policies that have rendered it unfit for our conservative family. In this case, however, we do not have the luxury of even considering living in it as it is. The Rinos have now decided to throw us out of our own house. They want us to walk away and leave our equity in their pockets. They have taken our beautiful house and covered it in filth, and now they want to drive us out into the night with nothing.

 

If you love the Constitution and value liberty, I hope you will join me and “just say no” to all those who have hijacked our party. It is time to evict them, clean house, and reinstate the Constitutional principles that made this country great. We can do this, but if it is to be done, we must do it now. If we hesitate, we will lose our party, but we will also lose any hope of ever having a voice in our government because the United States will always be a two-party system.

 

 

Joyce Swann is the author of Looking Backward: My Twenty-Five Years as a Homeschooling Mother co-author of The Chosen, a dystopian novel about the battle of one U.S. family to restore the Constitution and stop the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act. For more information, visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net