[ak267]

no, a third party would give Obama a 2nd term.

[carola]

This is a pipe dream, and a bad one at that. Will the third party be the perfect moderate party that the Joe Scarboroughs of the world think the American people are clamoring for? Or will it be a true conservative party? It definitely won’t be to the left of the Democrat Party. In any case, it’s the Republicans, conservatives and moderates, who will lose.

We could become more like Latin America, where everyone who thinks he has a good idea starts a party and where there are so many parties no one can keep track of them.

[saluki_in_ohio]

Save Sarah Palin, there is no Republican out there I will vote for.

If she doesn’t get nominated, my vote is definitely going to be third party.

[Mere]

All right. This division was partially responsible for our loss in 2008. Try changing things from within the Republican party. Sorry to be so blunt but BO is destroying our country and the people that said they would never vote for a RINO are partially at fault.

[LiberConservative]

We already have a third party: conservatives. Now if we can only yank the Republican party back from the RINO’s and give it to Palin.

[deport]

A 3rd party couldn’t get enough votes state by state to secure 270 votes in the Electoral College. Hell Perot got about 19% of the popular vote but zero EC votes.

[Gay State Conservative]

Let's see now....that whack job,Perot,got about 20% of the popular vote in ‘92 and yet he got nearly......one...electoral vote.That pretty much sums it up.

[DanZanRyu]

If a 3rd party could raise at least $200 million, then maybe it can win the White House.

BTW, have any of the 3rd parties (Green, Libertarians, Constitution,, etc.), bothered to report their July fundraising activities?

[GLDNGUN]

The democrats will run Obama again (unless something very odd happens) and he will be looked on as more of the same. If the GOP runs a traditional candidate, he also will be seen as more of the same. That scenario would certainly create an atmosphere in which a 3rd party candidate could get a LOT of attention. Think Ross Perot in 1992. If Perot hadn't been such a flake, he could have potentially won that race.

IF one party of the other were to run a non-traditional candidate - someone who is not part of the DC establishment - someone who the average American feels they can relate with and knows will represent THEM and not special interests, then THAT candidate would stand a great chance of a landslide win.

This is why I truly believe that Sarah Palin is a woman of destiny and will be the GOP nominee in 2012 and elected President. If things continue as they are, there could not possibly be a better environment for her election. It's almost as if she was made for this moment, and this moment made for her.

She came out of "nowhere" in Alaska by tapping into what the people wanted and being one of them. All she has to do is repeat it on a national level.

There might still be a 3rd party candidate(s). In fact, I could see a 4-way race. You could have Palin as the GOP candidate, then some RINO run figuring he'll get a lot of GOP votes from people who can't bring themselves to vote for such an "extremist" like Anderson tried to pull off in 1980. It would have to be someone who can finance his own candidacy - Romney anyone? Obama will be on the dem ticket, and a democrat-lite candidate trying to win the indepedents and "moderates" of both parties could run to Obama's right. This would be another wealthy person who would be liberal on social issues, but claim to be fiscally conservative. Perhaps a Donald Trump or Bill Gates type.

[freebilly]

No....

[norge]

No.

NO.

AND FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE...NOOOOO.

[webschooner]

It’s really something to behold when the moonbat Leftists are upset at the most Leftist president in the country’s history, because he’s not Leftie enuf for them.

I hope the moonbats do go off and start a turd party, but who are they gonna nominate that is to the Left of Zerobama? Will they raise Karl Marx from the grave and prop him up and run him for president? Maybe Pol Pot or Hitler?