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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Thu Oct 10, 2013, 08:59 AM Oct 2013

Erick Erickson Predicts 'Real Third Party Movement' To Divide GOP

TOM KLUDT – OCTOBER 10, 2013, 8:23 AM EDT

Incensed that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) are reportedly abandoning the effort to defund or delay the Affordable Care Act, RedState.com editor Erick Erickson predicted Thursday that Republican leadership is providing fertile ground for the rise of a "real third party movement" that will split the GOP.

"This comes at the same time the Obama administration admits it will be months before their Obamacare website will be fixed and Kathleen Sebelius is saying if people want out of the mandate they can pay a fine," Erickson wrote. "Nonetheless, Cantor, Boehner, and with them Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn are expected to cave in and fully fund, unimpeded, Obamacare."

Erickson wrote that those leaders "will ensure that Obamacare is fully funded and give the American public no delay like businesses have."

"In doing so, they will sow the seeds of a real third party movement that will fully divide the Republican Party," he added.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/erick-erickson-predicts-real-third-party-movement-to-divide-gop

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Erick Erickson Predicts 'Real Third Party Movement' To Divide GOP (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2013 OP

The Dixiecrats return to the wilderness Bok_Tukalo Oct 2013 #1

Please Jesus, get it done. nt DURHAM D Oct 2013 #2

Let us know what we can do to speed the process along, Erick ... Myrina Oct 2013 #3

They'll be called "The 95 dollarers" lame54 Oct 2013 #4

I've been hearing (and expecting) that for 20+ years CanonRay Oct 2013 #5

Interesting how this conservative Repub complains about people not being treated like businesses LonePirate Oct 2013 #6

local Macon boy wilt the stilt Oct 2013 #7

He's right. apnu Oct 2013 #8

Tea Party and the religious right are one and the same... DonViejo Oct 2013 #9

They might be now, but they weren't originally. apnu Oct 2013 #10

Initially the leadership wasn't but the membership was and fairly DonViejo Oct 2013 #12

Wait till they split & find out they can't vote in closed primaries. displacedtexan Oct 2013 #11

scam weissmam Oct 2013 #13

New hope for Eric Vietnameravet Oct 2013 #14

Bok_Tukalo

(4,323 posts)

1. The Dixiecrats return to the wilderness

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:05 AM

Oct 2013

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DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)

2. Please Jesus, get it done. nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:18 AM

Oct 2013

Myrina

(12,296 posts)

3. Let us know what we can do to speed the process along, Erick ...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:21 AM

Oct 2013

Any way we can help ... ya' know ...

lame54

(35,326 posts)

4. They'll be called "The 95 dollarers"

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:45 AM

Oct 2013

CanonRay

(14,119 posts)

5. I've been hearing (and expecting) that for 20+ years

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:58 AM

Oct 2013

LonePirate

(13,431 posts)

6. Interesting how this conservative Repub complains about people not being treated like businesses

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:58 AM

Oct 2013

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)

7. local Macon boy

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 10:50 AM

Oct 2013

I used to cover Macon when I sold cash registers. This guy is so typical and really a nitwit. go get'em you idiot.

apnu

(8,759 posts)

8. He's right.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 03:53 PM

Oct 2013

The Tea Party is, from what I can tell by their rhetoric, the Libertarian Party trying to take over the Republican party. They are like that fungus that takes over ants and spiders and makes them do weird things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps

Anyway, my point is the Tea Party isn't a good fit in the Republican Party and it shows. Much like the Religious Right and the GOP, they really should be in different parties. Their goals are at odds with each other.

However the Republicans have both the infrastructure and the brand that the Libertarians lack. So they're trying to take over and assume the flesh of the elephant like the Cordyceps fungus.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

9. Tea Party and the religious right are one and the same...

Reply to apnu (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 03:55 PM

Oct 2013

Christian delusions are driving the GOP insane

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251329871

apnu

(8,759 posts)

10. They might be now, but they weren't originally.

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #9)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 03:58 PM

Oct 2013

They're both of the same species of Cordyceps, but different species.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

12. Initially the leadership wasn't but the membership was and fairly

Reply to apnu (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 06:45 PM

Oct 2013

quickly assumed positions of power and leadership withing the bagger movement.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)

11. Wait till they split & find out they can't vote in closed primaries.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 04:36 PM

Oct 2013

I saw this happen with the Green Party. They were actually shocked that they would have no say in who we Dems selected for our general election ballots. Made lots of them dump their Green Party membership and return to the fold.

weissmam

(905 posts)

13. scam

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 08:57 PM

Oct 2013

Mr. Erickson is a scam artist that's just in it for the donations and the power he doesn't believe a word he is saying-its all about the donate button

Vietnameravet

(1,085 posts)

14. New hope for Eric

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:32 PM

Oct 2013

Hope your right Eric...but somehow you have to blame Republican sell out on Obama..there must be a way..

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