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To: Amos the Prophet

......We need a Constitution party that will return us to our founding principles.....

Recipe for failure. We have a two party system with primaries. Work within the American system or elect Liberals..... that’s your choice. A third party vote is a trashed vote by a marginalized voter.


46 posted on 05/09/2008 4:53:46 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: bert
A third party vote is a trashed vote by a marginalized voter.

Only in a 2 party system. In a 3 party system such as is in Israel and many European nations a vote for a minority requires genuine coalition building in order to govern. We do not have coalition building because we are saddled with an either/or political environment.

In our current structure conservatives have no voice. Think about it.

51 posted on 05/09/2008 5:08:51 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (here come I, gravitas in tow.)
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To: bert

There have been a few competitive third party Presidents in the past. Teddy Roosevelt, was elected under the Bull Moose party. Ross Perot may have gone far, had he not been such a crack pot. But that is not the blame of the third party concept, the timing and the people involved were just wrong.

The timing has to be right and America has to be fed up with a broken system.

There is no such thing as a “Recipe for failure”. There is only the fear of change or a new direction.

Enough “Marginalized” voters can make a majority. The GOP started in this very way. Before them were the Wigs. The history of this party has never been final.


67 posted on 05/09/2008 6:03:09 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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