Why Not a Third Party, Independent Candidate?

Conservatives4Palin ^ | January 31, 2016 | Steve Flesher

[Jack Black]

YES! A liberal black independent candidate should be found and financed through cut outs. They should go into full overdrive mode right after Hillary secures the nomination.

Blacks love voting for blacks, and we should help them have that opportunity again! Obama has spent 7 years investing in an "us vs. them" narrative with blacks as the poor victims.

ONLY A BLACK MAN CAN REPRESENT THE BLACK RACE !!

Blacks need to all get behind the Black candidate for President. Call it "the Black Party".

[ansel12]

Here is a partial list of the "third parties" the Constitution party is on it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We're gonna need a whole lotta popcorn for this thread!

[dfwgator]

We need a second party, first?

[BobL]

“Why Not a Third Party, Independent Candidate?”

You forgot to add: “...from your ‘friends’ at the DNC”.

[x]

Because if you start at each party having, say, the solid support of 35% or so of the population, and you start throwing away large parts of that, there's no way to reach a plurality, let alone a majority, of the vote.

Remember Roosevelt and Taft a century back? They split the Republican majority enough to let in the Democrat Wilson, who actually got a smaller share of the popular vote than William Jennings Bryan had in his losing races.

And this time, Republicans don't start out with a majority of the voting population, so losing becomes inevitable if the party splits.

Sure, there's a dream that there are masses of conservatives out there who never vote in presidential elections who are just waiting for a candidate who is conservative enough to support, but seriously, how realistic is that dream?

[Popman]

Only when the majority of voters do so will a representative republic be restored in America.

Under current conditions that's a fantasy...

We are WAY past restoration...

[Mike Darancette]

I’d rather see Al Gore as a third party candidate.

[ansel12]

I don’t think the republicans were ever a third party, when they formed in 1854 the Whigs were only 22 years old.

The republicans simply replaced the Whigs. Two years after the republicans first met in 1854, John Fremont came in second in the 1856 presidential race, the “know Nothings” “third party” came in a distant third with 8 electoral votes. The Whigs were pre civil war America, the party only lasted 22 years itself (1833 to 1856). The Republicans held their first convention on July 6, 1854 and four months later held 19% of the Congress and 25% of the Senate, six years later they held the majority in the Congress, the majority in the Senate, and they had the Presidency. The Republicans were never really a third party at all.

[upsdriver]

Reading the posts here leaves me cold. For far too many, this isn’t a conservative activist site. It’s a Republican ass kissing site. Doesn’t anyone want to seriously take on the political establishment and restore our Republic? Where are people’s abilities to think outside the box? Just because something has never happened before does not mean it can’t happen now. This nation was built on a foundation that had never happened before. I’m in. Let’s take on BOTH CORRUPT POLITICAL PARTIES!

[hlmencken3]

You might be right.

[Leaning Right]

I don't think a third party candidate has ever won a presidential election in the U.S. It would split right-leaning votes assuring a Dem victory.

Bingo!!! The only way a third party could work in the USA would be if the Constitution were amended to require a run-off if no one candidate won a majority.

But such an amendment would never happen, because the two major parties want no competition. So it's as you said. A conservative third party would be exactly what the Democrats want.

[Leaning Right]

We need a second party, first?

LOL. So true!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I believe there will be at least one third party run this year, if not more than one. It will be a crapshoot for any mainstream candidate. It is happening worldwide, as the cycle switches from public to private, as documented by Martin Armstrong.

[Mr. Blond]

Bill Clinton only won with a plurality of the vote. If not for Ross Perot, Clinton would have been an also-ran, and nobody would be talking about Hillary.

[Jacquerie]

States, The Natural Second Party

[ex-snook]

Sure I’ll find someone in a 3rd party that I agree with because the major two has been tried and wanting.

[T-Bird45]

Here’s a level of difficulty to add to the mental exercise: there are states where getting a third party on the ballot is not as easy as filing for office. Ballot access issues in these states need to be addressed before another party can become truly viable.

[generally]

I’m not advocating for a third party, however the argument that something has never been done before is not a reason. If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always gotten.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Because if a conservative third party ran, the bad guys would win!

Oh, wait! The other two are both bad guys, but one wants to strangle the Constitution a bit more obviously and a bit faster than the other.

I guess it doesn’t matter, in the long run.