GOP Ripe For Splitting Into A Third Party

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Recent polls from Gallop and CNN show that Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are locked in a statistical dead heat for the 2012 nomination. It's way too early to determine who will be the actual GOP nominee. However, the fact that the top three are also failed contenders from the 2008 election says that the Republican mindset has not changed and they are looking to lose and lose big in 2012 if they have nothing to offer but a repeat performance.

With less then 20% of Americans identifying as Republican, the GOP could easily brake apart into a 3rd party for those Regan and Goldwater types that want no part of what Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, and the Bush Administration have made of what the GOP.

Mitt Romney probably has little chance of getting the hard core Christian vote, the same far right constinuency that is the currently the only united part of the GOP. In 2007 Bill Keller a prominent pastor based in Florida said "A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan". There are many like Keller and their opinion will not change by 2012. And let’s not forget he wanted to double the size of Guantanamo, flip flopped on abortion, gay rights, gun control and more.

Sarah Palin. What can we say about Sarah Palin that has not already been discussed all over the media. She caters to the lowest common denominator, is lacking in ability and intellect but is a good mom and hunter and sees herself as a "pit bull with lipstick". Hard to believe that there will be enough Republicans in 2012 that think she has the ability to be the leader of the free world. God help us.

Then we have Mike Huckabee. A nice guy. Former Governor of Arkansas and a baptist minister. He brought up his children so well that his son decided to hang a dog while he was a counselar at a Boys Scout Camp. During the Republican primary debates he was one of three potential nominees who stated that they did not believe in evolution. After Bush do we really need another "science is bullshit" in the White House?

The GOP has its work cut out for it. Let’s not forget the chairman of the RNC Michael Steele who dismissed Palin as "old school" and "not the generation of candidate I am trying to groom". A little full of himself. Yesterday he pitched the GOP to the NAACP stating that the "Republican Party wants to be a partner who works with you to put in place the tools necessary to sustain that growth and to bring out of poverty those so often left behind." What a joke. The rich white man’s party (except for Steele and a select few, very few) now wants to help the black community.

Newt Gingrich: U.S. Citizenship Starts With Our Creator

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On Friday, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Oliver North visited Rock Church in Hampton Roads, Virginia to take part in a three-hour long tent revival that focused on "Rediscovering God in America." The speakers warned the audience about the "continuing availability of abortion, the spread of gay rights, and attempts to remove religion from American public life and school history books. What a slap in the face it was for some spectators to hear the most divisive speech coming from Newt Gingrich, a womanizing adulterer in his own right. Gingrich did take the time to point out that through the grace of God, there was at least "one less outlet" for abortion while not mentioning anyone by name, but obviously referring to the recent murder of Dr. George Tiller.

" The Virginia-Pilot

reported that Gingrich argued that, while Christianity is the foundation of American citizenship, Americans are experiencing a period where they are being "surrounded by paganism":

GINGRICH: I am not a citizen of the world. I am a citizen of the United States because only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator. [...] I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism.

I'm not sure what Gingrich means by "only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator." I've looked at the documentation for U.S. citizenship and there is no mention of God, Jesus, Allah, Christ, Religion, a Creator or anything of the sort. However, if one was of the belief that a "Creator" was responsible for men and the earth, wouldn't he or she also be responsible for the gay ones as well? - According to Gingrich, besides cutting hair and decorating living rooms, gays have no redeeming value.

GINGRICH: "Even those who make claims of redemption will not be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven."

Huckabee also equated America’s victory against the British in the Revolutionary War with the right-wing’s success in the Proposition 8 fight in California as being miracles "from God’s

hand."