Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
What are the realistic chances that if Tancredo makes it into office, that former GOP members and voters will defect over to ACP in time to get better results for future elections?
It's not going to happen. I think most of the people on this board would have a big problem with the ACP platform. Seems to me that most people on CO-AR15 are typically liberty minded and more focused on fiscal conservatism and limited government than the social issues. They use God as justification for 3/4 of their platform: http://www.americanconstitutionparty...ormDetail.html

They aren't a good fit for 90% of conservatives. That's why they are a small party that doesn't get any attention until Tom Tancredo hijacks the party.

Quote Originally Posted by 68Charger View Post
I'm thinking that HALVING their funding will get their attention.. "when you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow"

1st rule of politics: follow the money
Yeah and while you've "get them by the balls" the Democrats are going to make huge sweeping gains in every single level of government from the Governor's Office all the way down to County Commissioners. The amount of damage that will be done will take decades if not longer to fix.

This was the argument against McCain and now we have socialized medicine and two more ridiculously liberal Supreme Court Justices not to mention a whole slew of federally appointed positions including federal judges that serve life terms. Judges we can't take back and I don't really see anything happening with healthcare as far as repealing it. The way it's been implemented pretty much sets it in stone.