You are not going to get many who agree with you here.
Most would rather burn down the barn to save the farm.
Look for a rash of third party candidates in 2010 to steal just enough votes to get the D elected.
I make my fight in the Primaries.
Senator Burr (R-NC) is at under 40% right now and I’ll be supporting and R that runs against him - if one does.
Everyone talks about how NC is “BLUE” now. Obama won NC with less than 25,000 votes. Over 25,000 voted for Barr in NC. Barr had no chance of winning but over 25,000 voted for him so they could feel good come Wednesday morning.
The difference will be whether they are true third party candidates running out of concern for the country, or if they are DNC-sponsored plants, running only to confuse the electorate and siphon off Republican votes.
I suspect that the latter will become a trend, for several reasons.
1. In 2006, we saw the Democrats nationalize a strategy to run "conservative" candidates against Republicans in traditional GOP districts. That strategy worked.
2. We've seen candidates like Michael Bloomberg run on the GOP ticket because the Democrat ticket was already full. After winning on the GOP ticket, Bloomberg became an Independent.
3. A willing media will label DNC-backed third party candidates as "moderates," or "conservative-friendly," in support of this strategy.
-PJ