Ending the Two Party Stranglehold

Fearless-Flyers.com ^ | 2-7-04 | Matthew B. Rogers

[Jim Robinson]

An ant crawling up the elephant's leg...

[Helen]

"When conservatives unite outside the big tent of the GOP, there’ll be a revolution in America’s political arena. Many believe a revolution has already begun."

A revolution HAS already begun. It's called Free Republic. All we need is a Free Republic candidate.

[Always Right]

There will never be a better chance to run them out of town than we have right now.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[thoughtomator]

"When conservatives unite"? Is that something like "when pigs fly"?

Perot '04!

[jwalsh07]

Run Ralph Run.

[netmilsmom]

bttt

[TomServo]

For read later...

[Fearless Flyers]

oops, copied from the wrong window.correction as follows..

With the Republicans waiting until 60 days before the National election to finalize their platform, the Independents have less time to dissimulate it.

[RichInOC]

Perot? Is that as in "when the going gets weird, the weird go Perot"?

[thoughtomator]

It's as in, "If you think any nutcase off the street is a better candidate for President than what the Democrats or Republicans are offering, vote Perot".

Sadly, that's quite the compelling argument these days. If only a third-party (or non-party) candidate who isn't nuts actually ran for President, the electoral equation would change radically.

If you could pick a non-party candidate to run for President, who would it be?

[Oberon]

An ant crawling up the elephant's leg...

Donkeyphant. It's a donkeyphant.

[arasina]

All aboard! Third Party Railroad is ready to take you places you've never seen before! Swing Voters, step right up!

[Agnes Heep]

Cotton, slaves and arrogance ... without the cotton and the slaves.

[u-89]

I know an 80+ year old conservative who's been active in politics all his life. He sadly remarks how no matter who is in charge the country has consistently moved to the left during his entire lifetime. All he sees now is an acceleration in that movement. He gets a kick out of people who think conservatism made progress under Reagan or the Gingrich revolution.

[u-89]

P.S. Actually he thinks conservatism has made progress - leftward!

[ChadGore]

"I just had a birthday, punk.
You think you could say something
nice about my party ?"

[deport]

Matthew is sometimes a temperate antagonist, sometimes a Fire and Brimstone Preacher. But make no mistake; he has an agenda, to awaken the People to their own strengths as guaranteed them by our Constitution for the United States.

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Matthew... They make think you're giving them hell but the truth of the matter is that with only 3.7% of the vote in 2000 the 3rd parties aren't going to be a player for a long time to come..... Even with your mention of Perot at some 19% of the vote he got zero Electoral College votes and not one Congress seat. Now how do think that after having dropped from a high of 19% of the popular vote in 1992 to only 3.7% in 2000 do you think you have them on the run....

Maybe only in your imagination?

[Peace will be here soon]

"If only a third-party (or non-party) candidate who isn't nuts actually ran for President, the electoral equation would change radically."

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It would definitely makes things interesting but there does not seem to be anyone out there to meet the challenge right now.

All the prominent "so called" conservative hardliners, currently out there ( like Buchanan , Keyes , etc..), do not have the appeal , nor the money , to make it happen.

Ross Perot made people realize it is possible for a third party to make a serious run for the Whitehouse, but we all seen what happened with him in the end.

Right now, the best we can do is keep GW in the Whitehouse and try and send good conservative Congressmen and Senators to Washington to keep the President in line on some of these "liberal" issues he leans toward.

"If you could pick a non-party candidate to run for President, who would it be?" ---That is a very good question.