New Party

If the Republican Party were to collapse, en entire part of the nation would go unrepresented and a new party would need to take it’s place, hopefully being able to appeal to even more voters.

I think the party would start out with an ambitious group of people. In 1960, JKF did not initially have the support of a party, he “built his own organization, developing lists of activists to approach, traveling the nation, and securing services of a great number of experts, the “best and the brightest,” to conjure up the national organization to win delegate support,” (Aldrich, 271). Because of this, I think the party would rise out a strong candidate running instead of forming the other way around.

As I stated, the collapse of the Republican Party would leave a lot of people with no representation and no one to turn to. Because of this, the new party would have to take on some more conservative stances, while trying to remain more moderate. It would have to appeal the religious and frequent church goers as well as the wealthy and small business owners. It will have to take on a more conservative stance on foreign policy and defense than the Democrats, but remain more moderate that the current Republican party. This party will be different and more moderate than the current, but it does have to keep a more conservative overtone to keep many people happy. By loosening the belt on conservatism however, it will able to appeal to more people than just the current conservatives.

One subject the new party needs to recognize is the environment. Going green is huge lately amongst many people, and not just liberals. If the new party can work environmental conservation into their new platform, along with a little more lenience on gay rights and more emphasis on minority voters, this party will eventually gain momentum and make it into Congress and the White House.

This party would probably grow out of the South, with many voters already leaning that way. It will still contain some of the older more conservative members of the current party, but the younger, more moderate members will be the new face of this party.