Posted on 09/23/2014 5:53:55 PM PDT by kathsua
I had been looking forward to the opportunity to vote for an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate. I often vote for "third party" candidates because the two 19th Century major parties are out of touch with reality. For example, I voted for Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader in 2000.
Chad Taylor's withdrawal as the Democrat's Senate candidate provides strong evidence that Sen. Pat Roberts is probably correct when he says Greg Orman is really just a Democrat masquerading as an Independent.
Chad Taylor apparently filed for the Senate nomination to keep serious Democrats from running for the office. I strongly suspect that he had no intention of actually seeking the Senate seat. He merely wanted to insure that Orman would have a clear shot to win the seat for the Democratic Party.
LJWorld.com weblogs Science Becoming Religion Posted by Reasonmclucus September 23, 2014 at 2:53 p.m. If No Democrat Senate Candidate, I'll Vote for Roberts
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I had been looking forward to the opportunity to vote for an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate. I often vote for "third party" candidates because the two 19th Century major parties are out of touch with reality. For example, I voted for Ross Perot in 1992 and Ralph Nader in 2000.
Chad Taylor's withdrawal as the Democrat's Senate candidate provides strong evidence that Sen. Pat Roberts is probably correct when he says Greg Orman is really just a Democrat masquerading as an Independent.
Chad Taylor apparently filed for the Senate nomination to keep serious Democrats from running for the office. I strongly suspect that he had no intention of actually seeking the Senate seat. He merely wanted to insure that Orman would have a clear shot to win the seat for the Democratic Party.
I hope that Orman is sincere, but I cannot ignore the fact that the Democrats who know him better than I do believe he is one of them. Taylor in effect has made Orman the Democrat's Senate candidate.
If Orman wants us to take him seriously, he should condemn Taylor's withdrawal and demand that Democrats name a new candidate. He could site the incident as an example of what is wrong with the major parties. Democrat leaders don't care what chicanery they use to win. Democrats only care about winning. Democrats don't care about people or their rights.
Orman needs to emphasize how he disagrees with the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama. He needs to run against Congress and President Obama. We have a president who seems incapable of providing leadership and a Congress full of people more interested in playing silly political games than dealing seriously with the nation's problems. The two parties are equally at fault. Our President and Congress are more interested in serving special interests than in serving the people.
For example, Orman should promise to work to eliminate the Obamacare provision that requires young people who want to purchase homes or start businesses to use their money instead to subsidize the profits of huge health insurance companies by purchasing health insurance they believe they can do without until they get established financially. Starting out on life's road requires taking risks and young people should have the right to decide what risks they want to take.
A special prosecutor or grand jury should investigate to determine if Taylor deliberately committed fraud by running for a nomination even though he planned to withdraw from the race to help Greg Orman win the election. The investigation should also seek to determine if Orman was in on the plot.
Perhaps an imaginative attorney can come up with a class action civil lawsuit on behave of the voters Taylor disenfranchised. Perhaps this attorney could take advantage of the fact that a large percentage of black voters support Democrats means that Taylor's resignation amounts to depriving them of their right to vote on the basis of race.
Political primaries were established to give party members an opportunity to select candidates instead of having to accept candidates chosen by special interests in the old "smoke filled rooms". Chad Taylor and the leaders of the Kansas Democrat party have demonstrated their contempt for the electoral process by circumventing the voters and depriving them of their right to choose their party's Senate candidate. The Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court have demonstrated their contempt for elective government by supporting this fraud.
We have a Sarvis here in VA. He masquerades as a libertarian. I find it strange how libertarians embrace progressives.
I notice no strong 3rd party challenge against Nancy Pelosi.
If Libertarians want to show their power taking out Pelosi electorially would be the way to go!
Don’t you love the logic?
“If we don’t have a dozen George Washingtons on the ballot, I’m going to vote for Howdy Doody, and let Joe Stalin into office....to teach the GOPe a lesson.”
Get off of your butt and do the grass roots work necessary to build a bench of strong conservatives.
In the mean time, try not to contribute to the destruction of America!
If we keep electing RINOs because we buy the lie they are the lessor evil, the Republic is doomed. A traitor is ALWAYS the greater evil. I’d vote for the Independent, the lessor evil.
Why don’t your Republican Party candidates actually stand for something and embrace conservatism, and there wouldn’t be “losertarians” costing you seats.
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