this could be the new party in a matter of time replacing the republicans

[ProblemAgain]

Moderate Republican group to remove ‘Republican’ from name, welcome Democrats

The Republican Main Street Partnership, a Washington-based group that has promoted moderate GOP lawmakers and policies, will remove the word "Republican" from its title and welcome center-right Democrats in 2013, Yahoo News has learned.

The organization's board of directors voted Tuesday morning to scrap party identification from its title and be known simply as "The Main Street Partnership." The group's new president, former Ohio Republican Rep. Steven LaTourette, told Yahoo News that he plans to begin conversations with Blue Dog Democrats and centrist groups in the coming months.

"The goal is to try and fill the void that is the middle," LaTourette, who resigned from Congress this year, said. "The American political system is like a doughnut: You've got sides, but you don't have anything in the middle, and it would be my goal to work with Republicans and Democrats who want to find the path forward to getting things done and compromise."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/moderate-republican-group-remove...

[Ioruach]

I don’t agree that there is no political center any longer; there are still many Democrats, I would even say the majority of them, who can be found in that location.  But Republicans have largely abandoned it.   But then the “center” or the “middle” can be defined differently by various observers, anyway.  So I expect that any effort to create a new party is doomed and will go the way of other such efforts in the past.

[Bmichael]

Sounds a little wishy-washy to me.

Why don’t they just take their party back, instead?

 Kick the clowns out (although I would truly miss Rick Santorum and others, not only for their high entertainment value but also for their innate (and perhaps insane) ability to attract “anti” votes, rather than “for” votes).

For starters, they could muffle (and muzzle) Joe “You Lie!” Wilson, Rush “I Hope He Fails” Limbaugh… and give a grizzly bear a high powered rifle and a helicopter – and Sarah Palin a fifteen minute head start on the ice.

Was Mitt Romney really the best they could do?

These folks and their antics are the Republican Party’s liabilities – much of the reason they lost the election. Not about their beliefs on abortion, or gay marriage, but rather a comic book approach towards their politics.

I agree with Iorouch – doomed to failure seems probable.

[exedir]

The mugwumps, remember them?  Probably not.

Nope, our two party system has been mostly that, two parties.  And no, we are not France, yet.  The strength of our political system has been the ability of partisan leadership to pose as separate sides of ideology, one favoring the interests of those that haven't stuff, and then the other side those that do, do have stuff, that they would  like to keep.  And yes, some of it is just for appearances in that the political class likes to have a job, a good paying one with benefits with a future.  And yes, some of our founding fathers warned us against having such a leisure class living on the public funds.  But wait, there is more!  And the more is, we need a professional class of politicians in that politics is not for amateurs.  Once we could do our political business with part timers with little or no experience, NOT.  As we will always have the poor, we will always have someone to do our business as we try to make a living, rise families and attempt to enjoy what time we have left.  

As to the center, there is the rub.  Nothing in a society and economy stays static, change is just part of living.  What the center does is to mediate the extremes that are always trying to pull the nation apart either by passion or guile, or both, to see the future, their future for the rest of us.  Most of the time the extremes are just that, extreme, and fume and flummox to their own, but at times, the center does not hold, and that usually means upset until....well, until something gets settled, however, usually something unsettling starts first.

[The Dyslexic Dodger]

...er not so much bi partiasan with the Bucks?

  " Update: An earlier version of this article reported that LaTourette said the group's super PAC would be open to funding Democratic campaigns. LaTourette later said he misspoke and that while he is willing to work with Democrats, the super PAC will only fund Republicans. This article has been updated to reflect that.

 

  HAHAHAHAHA

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/moderate-republican-group-remove...

[LoveLife&Laughter]

The Whigs of the 19th century changed their name to Republican.  

They still can't get along with others ...

[Dennis Barsten]

There are actually three political parties within each party...The Right, Left and Center of each party...

Born to never agree unless something really happens...?

[Lifesighs]

Can't I just freaken register as a pinko commie?

[Dennis Barsten]

Born to be Wild....