[livius]

[Powell's] breezy endorsement of more government and more taxes is as near as we've ever got to a coherent political philosophy from him. If the Republican Party refuses to take his advice, I would urge him to run a third-party campaign on this refreshingly candid platform.

LOL!

[seatrout]

The present system is stacked against third-parties and Steyn (or to use his American Indian name, "Sounds-Like-Pingpong-Ball-Stuck-in-Throat") knows this. Until you have a proportional Electoral College, third-parties will invariably wither and die, thanks to the "Demopublican" party running the show. Steyn also equates the GOP with conservatism, a dangerous mistake. One problem that conservatism (as opposed to the GOP) which Steyn does point out, is that there are many kinds of "conservatism"; parenthetically, there is but one kind of liberalism. That's why you don't see the infighting in liberalism that you do in the conservative movement. How we square this circle, I don't know.