Palin aims to shake up GOP establishment

The Conservative Party in New York has been trying to get one of its brethren elected for years. Maybe this time around, they'll succeed. I have no doubt that we're going to see a number of Republicans follow Palin's lead in years to come. This splintering of the Republican party started under Bush, because conservative Republicans got fed up with Bush's big-government and big-spending policies. And things took off when Ron Paul entered the fray and when McCain became the Republican candidate In theory, I'm all for the establishment of a viable third party. I really think that America needs one. However the reality is that the structure of America's two-party system and the advantages that both the Democratic and Republican party have in terms of finance virtually precludes the emergence of a viable third party.At this point though the time has never been better for a third party to gain a foot-hold in American politics . . . .

The problem with two many parties on one side is that it splinters the vote as well.  When Canada had two right of centre parties it was impossible for either of them to come even close.  In order to get a majority government in Canada a party has to carry Ontario and Quebec. Electoral ridings are drawn according to population and most Canadians live in those two provinces.  With polls closing at 8pm local time in their respective time zones, before the results could be broadcast when the last poll closed in British Columbia or Alberta, the election had already been decided before the election was broadcast in those two provinces.

We need run-off elections. That will allow rogue candidates a chance, third party as well.

Ma heed is spinning with all this spin.

October 2009:  Sarah Palin is going to "shake things up."

September 2008:  Ron Paul is going to "shake things up."

October 2009:  Republican candidates Matt Ferris, Alicia Healy, Rosanne Hicks contend that voting for a Republican challenger can "shake things up."

September 2008:  John Shaw Republican candidate from Florida is running for senate and is going to "shake things up."

September 2008:  John McCain "Come on Sarah let's "shake things up."

It seems this phrase is the default clarian call for Republicans against what?  What are they shaking up?  Are they shaking up their own party in the hopes of splintering it.  I would favor this as we have seen the damage it can go.  So, perhaps we Democrats should privately join Sarah and her entourage as they shake up their party into marginal groups who have a diffcult time attaining consensus within their own party.

Well Shake Up or Change...it all depends on the level of pain everyone is in maybe.  O's change has been a "House of Horrors".  His people he listened to have ruined his chances.  He should have talked to more people than the "kids on the block of Chicago"

At least Sarah "listened" didn't she?  O will not listen ..he charged on with no experience and we see what that boils down to.  The people who still want to spin his acts as needing more time are more delusional than he is.

Let me clarify. Sarah learned that the country would not support her.  Obama lied and cheated all the way to "victory".  Chapter after chapter can be written on his unhealthy behavior.  No one but the centrists ,independents and republicans will read it tho.  I will take a look now at who this dude is.    It is only written in their bubble heads that if not by a Democrat it is by a nazi .We need a truly educated man with an economic background from actually working.  One who will listen to the seasoned  seniors and not appoint who he wants to listen to who will not tell him the truth cause?

Cause they want to keep their appointment!  Ya don't tell your boss , "Hey the titanic you are on is not floating!"

Interesting typo in the first paragraph ... "Going Rouge".  Sarah Palin?  Not so interesting but just as flakey as the typo.

Rory,

Any kind of change or directional shift is going to cause controversy.  People who voted for Obama knew they didn't like the direction the country was going, and voted their conscience and rightly so.  The part they didn't vote for is what is entailed in change:  discontent and radical opposition.  You don't have to go very far back in history to prove this.  Change is like a war of ideas with each side posturing, proposing, and fighting for their views to rise from the ashes of controversy as the dominate ones and rightly so. 

Most of us who comment here are passionate in our views, and this is a wonderful thing.  At least we have views!  We are not a  "nation of sheep" who allow "others" to form our opinions for us.  For this I am greatful. 

Democrats do not all agree, and I invite this because growth is born in conflict.  We are seeing this as health care reform evolves and everyone is taking part.  This is our government at its best, despite what some say. 

Sarah Palin discussions are always amusing, it seems to me. By now you would think that she has pretty well established that she is not well educated in disciplines necessary for global leadership. She cheated the citizens of Alaska of a full term and tried to check out on the notion that she delivered something. The only thing the state got was much attention to a bungling and cheating government and a big bill. So, what is the point of SP? She clobbered John McCain and is now on a shopping spree again in New York. Security guard alert!

The shopping spree in New York is not true. She did take on corruption in Alaska of the Republican Party.

The difference between her and the rest of the leadership of the republican party is that she actually can pass the "how much is a quart of milk test" that Bush Sr failed.

In other words, she knows what middle class life is about and how we have been screwed.

In any case, the Democrat(ic) Party's Star, the one who sent thrills up people's legs, Barrack Hussein Obama...mmm.mmm..mmm, doesn't have any real capacity to do anything other than figure out how to call off the pot raids ( and I approve!), upholding the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, the one that FDR packed the Supreme Court to get around.

I mean Obama can't even find his way around the Oval Office desk to find a pen to end "don't ask, don't tell".

Balance the budget? Open negotiations on bills? Bill on-line to let us read them? An end to earmarks? Or is it that "hope got changed"?

I feel that Obama is so totally incompetent and so totally dishonest that I will take Sarah Palin over him in an election.

Yes,  and I do feel that she should be a cabinet member, not a president. But Obama doesn't even qualify for mayor of a small town in Alaska.

Well said YankeeJim

She likes to capitalize on her "maverick" status, but this is not much good when the country needs a person who at least can discuss domestic and foreign policy informatively.  I will listen to the opposition, but they at least need to have some knowledge base.  And emotional appeals and name calling do not hold much sway in the world of problems and soluctions.

Did you read what I wrote about your False Messiah?

Why you Palin critics don't apply the same level of scrutiny to your False Messiah I do understand. Too painful to admit to error of that magnitude. Why it destroys faith in life and your judgment!

As Alinsky said: hold your opponents to their own standards! Time for you Obama-oids to start doing that or appear to be hypocritical.