The American Conservative Party

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We are a group of ordinary citizens: bloggers, town council members, civil servants, business owners, engineers, you name it.  This is not an "astroturf" party funded by a billionare with an agenda of his own; this is America, as mainstream as it gets.  

Some of us are registered Republicans; some Libertarians, a few Blue Dog Democrats, and a lot of people that have refused to apply any party tag to themselves.  Many of us have been citizen activists in the past, but became dissatisfied with the choice between the socialist Democrats and the Democratic-lite Republican Party. 

 
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Early in 2008, a number of people who are conservatives, old fashioned liberals and traditionalists from all walks of life, across generations and from far flung areas of the country came together via the Internet for the common purpose of forming a new party. This was out of a common distaste for what the existing two major parties represent.  We come from many existing political labels, and yet none of them, because we feel that no party adequately represents mainstream America.

We spent many weeks hammering out our principles, creed and mission statement during our Internet conferences. Being just ordinary people we had little to no resources, just a desire to move back to our founding fathers principles of governance. We realize that the Democrats and Republicans have made it extremely difficult to form a new party, yet we are moving slowly but steadily along.  If there is any complaint to be heard from the members, it is "Faster! Move faster!"

And so we shall.... 

 
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The American Conservative Party was founded by a group of people who grew disillusioned with the Republican party, and tired of saying "Someone should do something about it. We need a leader like Reagan or Thatcher." Collectively, we finally decided that not only was there no Messiah of the Right, but there should not be such an icon. Given a hero to lead them, people would flock to his or her banner, and we'd march on to Washington, ready to smite our foes. Manna would rain from the heavens and we'd bask in our freedoms and economic prosperity.

Just one problem.... What happens when that hero dies?

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So we're going to march on Washington, and toss the crooks out, right?

Wrong.  Every reform movement for the last half-century has tried that.  The only "revolts" that had any success in changing the leadership at the top were those that were led from the top to start with.  In other words, we've had a number of political "palace coups" led by major party factions, but no successful "peasant revolts" led by the voters.   The reason for that is simple -- every attempt has faltered because reform groups build up to fight a single political campaign against a pair of political parties that have a couple of centuries experience in fighting ongoing political wars.  The parties always use their connections, deep pockets, and much greater experience to win.  Even if one were to somehow lose, the defeated party has a huge base of support and a new generation of leaders at lower levels to carry the fight forward.   The voter revolts always inevitably die out, because they have no similar base of officeholders and supporters to fall back upon and regroup; win or lose, the reformers go home.

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Chairman:
Butch Porter
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Secretary:
Charlie Domino
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