13 Maine Republicans Are Done With The GOP, Decide To Leave Party

[Ichingcarpenter]

Citing a long list of problems, 13 members of the Maine Republican Party are leaving the GOP.

In a Sunday letter obtained by the Bangor Daily News, the group singled out the RNC, Congressional Republicans, Maine Republican legislators and Gov. Paul LePage's administration as factors in the decision.

"We can no longer associate ourselves with a political party that goes out of its way to continually restrict our freedoms and liberties as well as reaching deeper and deeper into our wallets," the group wrote.

Recently-elected Maine GOP Chairman Rick Bennett reacted to the news, telling Maine Today that he was sad to see them go, but still saw a "very broad" party before him.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/maine-republicans-gop_n_3781973.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I do hope this is a start of something big.

And where are these 13 going to go?
Is it possible there will be a third party movement?

[mtnester]

2. Yep, it's called the Tea Party

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Doesn't matter where they go

If it breaks up the republican party.

Third parties have no power

[RKP5637]

5. GOPers, I think, will eventually realize they are being played for fools. Just how

large are the binders some republicans wear? Eventually, IMO, even the lowly rank and file drone republicans will realize they are played for fools ... just how long can they continue to accept the propagandistic manipulative crap they are fed, as their lives sink lower and lower in the republican dystopia while aggrandizing the republican elite and wealth.

[Kablooie]

7. Depends on what side of the Tea Party they are on.

I could see traditional Republicans leaving because the party has gone insane.
But also Tea Partiers might leave because the party has not become insane enough.
The reasons they stated could be used by either side.

[Whisp]

3. Will they be hooking up with Fuck Ron Paul?

Sounds good at first glance what they did, but there is always a second or third glance in these things.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. It's been happening down here, too, but it's being done

more quietly. The GOP has always been nutty, but they're really going off the deep end now and some of the saner ones aren't ready to go over the cliff with them. As far as I know, they aren't becoming affiliated with the Democrats (thank God for that) or anyone else that I can see. I suppose they're independents for now.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Teabaggers...

...a gift that keeps giving. Short of dismantling the Federal government and flushing it down Grover's bathtub, the "purists" will drive this party off the political abyss right at the verge of making serious gains. I'm hoping every incumbent rushpublican gets primaried next year...let them spend billions of dollars flinging poo at one another and then alienate large blocs of voters in their zeal for "purity". Next year is a critical election for control of state legislatures and Democrats have done a piss poor job, to date, in gearing up for what is sure to be an ALEC-funded grab for as much power as they can get. So any damage the GOPers can inflict on themselves is a good thing...

[dotymed]

9. IMO, no matter which of the 2 major parties

you are affiliated with, unless you are a corporatist, there is no room in your party for representing the will of the people.

I would love to see some Democrats (at least one independent also) form a progressive party and represent us.

[IronLionZion]

10. Are these folks libertarian, tea party, something else?

They don't sound very moderate. And Maine does have a strong independent streak.

I am so praying for a conservative third party to divide the Republican votes at local levels and congressional districts all over this country, or enough to let Dems take over the house and pass some infrastructure and jobs bills, and amend parts of obamacare.