Rancher Cliven Bundy, who you may remember from American politics circa April 2014, has officially left the Republican Party. The news is unlikely to cause too many sleepless nights at Nevada GOP headquarters.More (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/05/27/cliven-bundy-leaves-the-republican-party-herd/)
Bundy and his wife signed new voter registration forms at an event held by the Independent American Party, to which the Bundys now belong.
If I were a member of the republican party I would start to pay attention. I heard Hannity this afternoon blast the republican party saying, in effect, he has lost faith. Glenn Beck has been going after them for some time, and Rush has nothing good to say about them except they aren't democrats.
If I were a member of the republican party I would start to pay attention. I heard Hannity this afternoon blast the republican party saying, in effect, he has lost faith. Glenn Beck has been going after them for some time, and Rush has nothing good to say about them except they aren't democrats.
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...people like Bundy aren't having enough of an impact anyway.
The GOP is certainly not the party of tolerance.
Looking at you avatar, why not use the Zappa's hands holding feces version. I think that was the poster. It's been 42 years since I was in that head shop.
Good for Bundy! He got into the news because he had a position that many conservatives could agree with. And then he said something (a rather trivial thing IMO) that wasn't totally pc and got excoriated for it. Why should he support a party that is so rigid that it can't tolerate any words that aren't exactly pc?
Bundy, Sterling, and who else is going to get dumped on for some rather inarticulate statement? Be it in private or public?
The GOP is certainly not the party of tolerance.
The IAP, at least in Nevada, is just another name for the Constitution Party.
Perfect. Now he can represent the IAP crowd, which I imagine is a small party that isn't really going to have any impact on this election cycle.
Many of us in the Party feel that few are more intolerant than those who constantly demand tolerance. **nononono*And in closed primary states (what conservatives claim they want) if one leaves the party, they can't vote.
Try and imagine how I care.
Independent American Party? Isn't that a branch of Tom Hoefling's party?
I heard Hannity this afternoon blast the republican party saying, in effect, he has lost faith.
Independent American Party? Isn't that a branch of Tom Hoefling's party?There have been a few offshoots.
There have been a few offshoots.Hoefling spewed a lot of crap about the GOP in his quest for the Presidency, so it shouldn't be hard to defeat him in the party's primary.
There's the America's Independent Party, which was Alan Keyes's effort. (Until he named himself, I suspected Tom Hoefling was Alan Keyes, considering how much he hawked Keyes's candidacies.)
There's the America's Party, which was Tom Hoefling. (Hoefling is now back in the Republican Party, BTW.)
There's the Independent American Party of Utah and Hawaii, which broke off from the Constitution Party in the 1990s.
Then there's the always nebulous American Independent Party of California, which affiliates with all sorts of different parties. They were with the Constitution Party, then switched to Keyes in 08, then to Hoefling in 12, and who knows where they are now?