Time for a third party. Time to put Karl Rove in his place.

Commenting on Karl Rove’s decision to use his Crossroads organization to weed out those candidates (mostly from the teaparty) who are not experienced in the ways of politics,   Ben Shapiro of Townhall,  complains about this,  asserting that Rove is no conservative and wondering why Crossroads did not set out to train and condition conservative representatives instead of working to exclude them from the process. 

Why didn't Rove and company tell the Times that they were interested in training conservative candidates in media fluency? Why didn't they approach the Tea Party instead, and offer their get-out-the-vote services and electoral strategies?

Because, at root, there is a clash at the heart of today's Republican Party. The Tea Party wants to change tactics. The establishment wants to discard principle.

The question is whether this will be the party of Ronald Reagan or the party of George W. Bush. The establishment opposed Ronald Reagan in 1980; they backed George H.W. Bush, convinced that Reagan was too extreme, not quick enough on his feet, no match for the more intellectual Jimmy Carter. Thank God they lost.  (go to Townhall.com for the full article).

The reader should know that Eric Erickson,  of Red State and well establish teaparty supporting conservative,  and other conservative leaders applaud Rove's  effort.

As an update to this story,  Rove made an excellent defense of his efforts, on Fox's Bill O'Reilly on the Thursday night program.    He made the case that his organization directed more than 30 million dollars into teaparty candidacies,  in the 2012 campaign.
   

For what it is worth,  if Rove is all about exclusion instead of inclusion,  this blog will not support him or his effort.  It does appear to this editor,  that the Establishment within the GOP is waging a war against the teaparty.  If those conservatives rebel against this effort,  the GOP will have difficulty winning any election in the future,  especially the 2014.  

It may be time to form a third party,  forcing establishment Republicans to partner with teaparty conservatives,  as a separate entity,  in order to win elections.  As things stand,  today,  conservatives are simply being pushed to the back of the bus and ignored.  

Come election day,  GOP folks preach conservative principles.  Come the day after elections,  back to business as usual.  

Time to change that,  but I am thinking that we should give Rove the benefit of the doubt,  at least, for the time being.