well, now this is getting real interesting ... we've all been looking to the left and focusing on the Dem vs. Green rift ... well, there just might be a new kid on the block ...
some proposed topics for discussion:
1. will this really signal a major split in the republican party?
2. could this splinter group attract centrist Dems (like a "gang of 14" party)?
3. might this trigger a split in the Democratic Party between the progressive wing and the Clinton wing?
4. is this all a bunch of media hype and nonsense and nothing will change in that the two major parties will retain more than 95% of the vote?
In Open Split with Bush, Top US Conservative Calls for Independent Movement The patriarch of US conservatives has urged his followers to halt their financial support of the Republican Party and start an independent movement, signaling a major political shift that could result in heavy losses for the US ruling party in upcoming elections.
Viguerie also called congressional Republicans "unprincipled power brokers", whose agenda "comes from big business".
Richard Viguerie, who was instrumental in cementing the winning coalitions behind Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George W. Bush in 2000, declared that conservatives were "downright fed up" with both the president and Republican-controlled Congress.
"At the very least, conservatives must stop funding the Republican National Committee and other party groups," Viguerie wrote in a lengthy essay in The Washington Post Sunday.
He suggested conservatives "redirect their anger into building a third force," which he defined as a movement independent of any party, and laying the groundwork for the 2008 election campaign.
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