Comments on: GOP Chaos http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/gop-chaos/ Mark Anderson Strategic News Service Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:38:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. Gary W. Griffin http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/gop-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-2731 Dr. Gary W. Griffin Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:40:30 +0000 http://www.tapsns.com/blog/?p=1097#comment-2731 Great post. I would correct one thing -- the Tea Party is not a third party. It's a faction of the Republican Party that has been termed Tea Party. They have been described as a third party, but there's no evidence of this, since when you vote for them, it's typically on a Republican ticket. A true third party could solve some of this chaotic behavior that we currently have in the U.S. It's true what you say in the post that both parties represent the extremes and have the nation so polarized that we can move forward at a time when we desperately need to do so. It really a matter of the universal laws of physics and simple mathematics. Two equal but opposing forces result in a net sum gain of zero. If we divide the two parties then we have 2/2 = 1. If we subtract 1-1 = 0. A true third party could break this gridlock, as it takes an agreement of at least 2 to move forward. We must move forward in America now. Great post. I would correct one thing — the Tea Party is not a third party. It’s a faction of the Republican Party that has been termed Tea Party. They have been described as a third party, but there’s no evidence of this, since when you vote for them, it’s typically on a Republican ticket.

A true third party could solve some of this chaotic behavior that we currently have in the U.S. It’s true what you say in the post that both parties represent the extremes and have the nation so polarized that we can move forward at a time when we desperately need to do so.

It really a matter of the universal laws of physics and simple mathematics. Two equal but opposing forces result in a net sum gain of zero. If we divide the two parties then we have 2/2 = 1. If we subtract 1-1 = 0. A true third party could break this gridlock, as it takes an agreement of at least 2 to move forward. We must move forward in America now.

]]> By: Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhalls http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/gop-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-2487 Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhalls Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:39:07 +0000 http://www.tapsns.com/blog/?p=1097#comment-2487 Great post. Reminds me of the day my grandfather turned his portrait of Nixon to the wall (the day the Republican Party adopted an anti-abortion platform) and stopped sending his dues. Our whole family was Republican when I was growing up, and we believed in abortion on demand as a way to trim welfare costs. I'm not sure what I am now. In 1987 someone in US intelligence decided I was a threat to national security (I THINK it had something to do with a client - the ex-wife of a scientist engaged in illegal biological research - and what she might have told me). I write about all this in my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE (I currently live in exile in New Zealand). Great post. Reminds me of the day my grandfather turned his portrait of Nixon to the wall (the day the Republican Party adopted an anti-abortion platform) and stopped sending his dues. Our whole family was Republican when I was growing up, and we believed in abortion on demand as a way to trim welfare costs. I’m not sure what I am now. In 1987 someone in US intelligence decided I was a threat to national security (I THINK it had something to do with a client – the ex-wife of a scientist engaged in illegal biological research – and what she might have told me). I write about all this in my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE (I currently live in exile in New Zealand).

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