Desire for Third Party Growing, Poll Finds

A major goal of the Tea Party is to change the attitude of elected officials. In the private sector, employees continue to do their best job over the years for several reasons: Most of us were raised to do a good days work for a days’ pay, we work toward earning merit raises, we hope for promotions, and we work toward being vested and receiving a larger pension when we retire. Conversly, the Legislators, both State and Federal, have guaranteed themselves automatic pay increases, huge pensions, and lifetime guaranteed healthcare benefits up front. They do not have to work to earn anything. They get it after one term in Congress. They seem to quickly lose the integrity they advocated on the campaign trail, and their vows that they are servants of the people, if they ever believed that in the first place. The benefits they have given themselves, by laws that THEY wrote, have relieved them of the need to do a good job for the people, and simply concentrate on increasing their own wealth and power. They have even managed to exempt themselves from many of the laws they burden the citizens with, and if they do find themselves in “hot water,” the taxpayer often has to pay for their legal representation. Is this why so many candidates will lie, cheat, and steal, to gain/keep positions in public office?

Kyle, the separation of church and state was to stop states from giving tax money to a state church. It was more about not having a designated state church than trying to erase God from our government. All you have to do is look at the original documents and a strong beliefand reliance on God is clearly evident. Our Founding Fathers were profoundly religious and were careful to erect a government guided by God and the bible as they had already seen what happened in France during the French revolution when the secular humanists removed God from everything. You didn't know that because the secular humanists have gotten control of our educational system and the courts. Our history has been manipulated and changed to push a world view and idealology of self reliance over God reliance. As a result, we have the steady decay of moral integrity in the generations proceeding the take over of our schools. Our government was not set up as a theocracy. But our forefathers came over here in record numbers to escape European oppression of religion. Now, the secular humanists are doing the same and robbing our youth of our history. Check out text books before 1910...very different. Where did they get their facts to change history...rumor, inuendo and fiction!

The way I see it, the coporations have way too much power. They dictate the quality of the air we breath, the water we drink, and the food we eat. If it does not suit big business then it does not get done. Just take a look at the situation with illegal (excuse me undocumented aliens), if it wasnt for the cheap labor they supply they would not be here. And the Republicans are the party of the moneyied class and always have been. But that is not to say that the Dems are for the average American, the working man they are not. So, yes there is a crying need for someone, some party, to represent the middle.

Sooner or later this country has got to realize that we have to get this runaway defense spending under control. As it stands right now, half the defense spending in the entire world is by the United States. This is unsubstainable.

Yup, the way to start giving AMERICA back to Americans is TERM LIMITS, with NO strings attached!!!! These crooks in Washington have such a great Golden Parachute that THEY voted on without you or me knowing, it's a real shame they are screwing us folks like they are doing. Seems politicans have become lower parasites than lawyers..... and we Americans believe all the trash they spurt out, only to get elected, then soon forget.... VOTE THE ALL OUT!

We need a Middle Class Party that serves the 60% who aren't the 20% rich (Republican) or the 20% poor (Democrat). We couldn't lose.

We already have a 3rd party. It's called The Libertarian Party. I have always voted for the Democrats. Until 2008. Then all this garbage coming from Republican RINOs and the Republican power brokers. Give me a break. I love Ron Paul. He makes sense. So now I joined The libertarian Party. It's time has come. Please check us out!

People, people! - no mater how bad we want a third party - please be careful and don't let the Dems keep control. We need to restore the checks and balances in our government - there should be rules to somehow keep one party from having a majority in any branch of government. History shows us that when it happens nothing positive gets done for the people - only party and personal agendas thrive.

Having another party wouldn't be any better because they would become just a corrupt as the two we have. We need to have a different system for Financing campaign funding so each candidate equal funding and shouldn't know where any contributions came from. We shouldn't allow Corporations to be involved in Politics, The people running the corporations already have a personal vote they can use.

Being that the media is run by big money, be they Reps or Dems, they have always attacked alternative parties, labeling them as crazies or radicals. The voting public has allowed the media to tell them who to vote for rather than doing any research themselves. Voter apathy has allowed the two-party system and government to become the monster that it is. People need to take the time to look at the alternatives. An excellent place to start is the Libertarian Party. Less government, lower taxes and more freedom.