Let's just don't and they say we did, ok? Geeze! Are you series? (snort!)
I din't enjoy them Bill & Hitlery years much, did you?
Over the past 30 years, the party platforms have been drawn up by the fringes of each party. People in the practical world of politics who have to run for office tend to run away from these platforms the way Dole did in ‘96.
Precisely how many of the above described "independents, RINO's and DINO's have ever gone down in history as ever accomplishing ANYTHING meaningful to anyone in this nation?
That question is irrelevant. Since Jackson and Van Buren instituted our modern party system in the 1830's, the goal of American political parties has been to win and wield power, not to necessarily accomplish anything meaningful. Whenever parties try to accomplish something meaningful, we end up with things like civil war (Lincoln) or galloping democratic socialism (FDR and LBJ).
The American electorate averages out in the Great Middle, and that middle won’t go for candidates of the extremes unless there is an extreme situation, like the Great Depression. People don’t like radical change unless there is an obvious crisis.
I din't enjoy them Bill & Hitlery years much, did you?
Polling studies done after the ‘92 election showed that Perot did not elect Clinton. What Perot did was deny Clinton a majority, which destroyed any chance Clinton had of claiming a mandate. In that sense, Perot did the Republicans a favor by tying Clinton’s hands.