The only possible impact this guy may have is in Virginia.
With 3 months to go to the election, 90% of the people on FR are better known than this guy, and he doesn’t have the $$ to do a Perot.
Having said that, if Virginia is the key to victory and he pulls the 5% that some claim he will, then nothing says “Dem Win” like a Clintonian plurality.
How much money in campaign funds can he expect from the Dems? Woodrow Wilson had his friends fund Teddy Roosevelt’s third party run in 1912, a similar situation.
Those who want to support Goode can get more bang for their buck by sending their donations directly to Obama. It will cut out the middleman.
No S*** Sherlock. What gave you the first clue? Does this writer think anyone is debating Goode or Obama?
Virgil Goode’s candidancy DOES NOT help Obama. His candidancy rightly HURTS ROMNEY who should NOT be the GOP candidate. IF Romney wasn’t the GOP candidate then many of us would not be voting for Virgil Goode. The GOPe and the idiots in the party that voted for Romney created this mess. Virgil Goode is just the way to send them a message that Romney (or those like him) are NOT viable candidates for the GOP.
Barring something unforeseen, our next President is either going to be Romney or Obama. Any votes these guys take from Romney are fewer votes Obama needs to win. That is the mathematics of it.
Perot and Nader are the history of it.
Unless someone can show me that someone other than Romney or Obama can win in November, I'm holding my nose and voting ABO.
I know the feeling. I watched Santorum lose several states by less than 5 points.
He will share 3 pct with the green freaks.
Why not kick Romney to the curb and put Virgil Goode on the ballot as our nominee. He is so much better than Romney who is basically Obama.
At this point Goode has the four votes of my immediate family. Romney has no opportunity to gain them because he can’t unbe what he is.
Oh goody. Here we are again - discussing whether a third party candidate might prevent willard from being coronated.
Have you ever noticed that the “solution” offered by the abo crowd is to castigate the third party candidate who is running against willard as a conservative? I guess it never occurred to the abo’s that if willard actually was a conservative or if he ran as a conservative that it wouldn’t even be an issue.
Or perhaps that’s really the nut of the issue with the abo’s. It isn’t about conservatism at all; it’s about getting willard elected regardless of his views or what he would do.
Any VA FReeper who votes for this phony assclown should have their head examined. Goode enthusiastically supported the Equal Rights Amendment - yep, the crazy Gloria Steinem ERA - in the 1970s, and more recently backed uber-liberal Douglas Wilder for Governor. Now, just because he is SAYING the right words about immigration, we are supposed to believe he is NOW a “conservative”? Sorry...’aint buying it. I think it is more likely he is part of a DNC/OFA scheme.
Actually, mitt’s candidacy is helping obama.