They'll Cry If They Want To

Right-wing radio show host Michael Savage (quite popular, according to this article) says the Republicans have failed conservatives.

There is no Republican Party.  It's an appendage of the Democrat machine, as we've all just seen. It's two-card Monte, as we well know. It's a game being played against the American people. You've got the drunk Boehner on the one side, and the quasi-pseudo-crypto Marxist on the other...

(And I thought the far right believed Obama was a Marxist, but it turns out he's only a sort-of, fake, secret Marxist.)

Savage's solution?  A third party, a "Nationalist Party."

I hear this sort of talk a lot.  When your party doesn't give you what you want, you say you'll bolt.  And it's true that there are major splits within the Republicans. (Democrats, too).

But really, in our two-party system, there's no place else to go.  Maybe this is a bad thing, but if Savage is serious, any third party he helps create will be small and considered extremist.  More important, the only effect it could have would be to help Democrats by draining votes from Republicans.

It's one thing to try to take over your party--a number of groups have attempted this, some with success.  But right now things are designed to keep Dems and Repubs in power, and fighting that will generally go against your own interest.

A lot of people claim there's no difference between the two parties.  Anyone who fights along these lines may get the chance to discover how big the difference is.