Third Party Look: Modern Whigs

[Reluctant Republican]

I’ve been following the Modern Whigs  a bit. They just hit 10000 members, the majority of them serving in the armed forces. I really am impressed by them. I don't agree with them on Immigration though, I think there should be other options then the military to allow Illegals an opportunity to gain citizenship. I also don’t know if I favor rendering any crime as a “hate crime”, but that is another minor issue. Finally, I’ll have to look into their Health Care plan more. But other then that, I think there a pretty good party, and I hope they can be viable one day nationwide. I believe there focusing all there attention on a State Representative race in 2010, but I don’t even know which state this is in. But in any case, I like that strategy. Better then to run mostly paper candidates that don’t have  a chance to get more then 3 or 4 percent.

And, on a side note, I’m starting to agree with you about Libertarians. Why I don’t have any problems with the likes of Barr, the radicals in the party scare the hell out of me. I actually think I’d favor socialism(!) over  some of there more “out there“ ideas.