Article: Party vs. protest

REFORM PARTY

- This group needs to rally around principles, not billion-dollar egos, if it wants to stick around.

Keeping the Reform Party together was always problematic anyway. For whatever reason, third-party movements in this country tend to come and go --- but mostly go. Moreover, it's instructive to note that pretty much the only thing the Reform Party members have in common is a desire for change. If you can't agree on what form that change should take --- or who should lead it --- you don't really have a party. What you have is a protest.

Last weekend, the party imploded in an embarrassing, childish and even violent exchange, and the unceremonious dumping of party chairman Jack ...

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