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From Gallup:

Americans’ desires for a third political party are as high as they have been in seven years. Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe a third major political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic Parties do a poor job of representing the American people. That is a significant increase from 2008 and ties the high Gallup has recorded for this measure since 2003.

This tends to confirm my view that the American people are turning towards the GOP to give us one last chance to get things right.

The people were burned by the GOP’s embrace of pork barrel politics – when the Republican party started aping the Democrats, the people rejected the Republicans.

And then the Democrats, especially in Barack Obama, put out a message which spoke to having learned the lesson. Obama and his Democrats were supposed to be post-partisan. People who only wanted to get things moving in the right direction without all the political gamesmanship. In spite of clear warnings that this was a flat out lie from the get-go, the people bought it…and now they are burned up that Obama and his Democrats proved themselves the most brazen liars about themselves.

Now the swing is back to the GOP, but not out of love for the Republicans. There is still a great reservoir of distrust. But at least some Republicans are clearly showing they have learned their lesson and if the results of 2010 put in to power a Republican caucus (even if not a majority in both houses) which demonstrates by firm action they are on the side of the people, then those people will reward the GOP with full power in 2012. On the other hand, if the GOP in 2011 starts showing itself just part of the system, then the swing away from the GOP will be quick and massive.

But it won’t be to the Democrats – a third party will certainly emerge in time for 2012 if the Republicans break faith in 2011. This is part of the reason it was so crucial to defeat Mike Castle in Delaware – to win with someone like him, especially if he did wind up being the 51st Republican Senator, would have been a disaster for the party. We would have been in charge – and when push came to shove, we could rely on a Mike Castle to cut us off at the knees. It wouldn’t matter if it were just Castle and one or two other RINOs doing the dirty deed of going along with liberalism – the entire GOP would have been painted as betraying the American people. Better fewer Republicans who will do the right thing than more who will do the wrong thing.

But, remember, the threat is there – and if Democrats contemplate it with glee, they shouldn’t. A split in the center/right in 2012 might preserve Obama in the White House (and that is not even remotely assured), but it would end up meaning in the Congress of 2013 that no party has a majority…and then that new third Party would simply eat up all Republicans and Democrats who are in any way dissatisfied with Big Government. The GOP would not die completely, right away, but it would become a small party while the new, Third Party rose to power, probably no later than the 2016 election.

The people are furious and they want the system changed – changed to a system where those, middle class and working poor, who do the real work of the nation are given the highest consideration, while the leeches at the top and bottom of the pile are put in their place. And the people will get what they want – if not in the two major parties, then in a new party.

We’ve got one more shot at this, Republicans – so let’s not blow it.