Posted on 08/19/2012 11:22:03 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too
I don’t know how Nader got over 2% 12 years ago but Obama/McLame got over 98% of the vote against an Indy Nader and 2 former members of Congress on the Green and Libertarian tickets.
So I don’t see Goode and Johnson making much difference. Johnson it seems takes pretty evenly from both and probably won’t be a factor outside his own state.
The only thing is Goode could hurt in his critical home state with just 1 or 2 points. I hope not. Bob Barr did very poorly in his home state of Georgia in 2008, less than 1%.
No Nader this time. I don’t know who the Greens have but the Roseanne Barr/Cindy Sheenhan ticket is on the Peace and Freedom ballot in Cali! So is a member of this site on the American Independent ballot.
After yesterday’s unbelievable gaffe by Todd Aikin, you can give MO to Claire McKaskill. The DNC is already using Aikin’s comments to raise money nationally.
I heard what Todd Akin said. It was a gaffe, but hardly "unbelievable." Of course the desperate 'Rats are out there jumping down his throat because they know they're behind and have to use every opportunity.
But was it such a terrible gaffe, compared to some of Obama's (e.g., "57 states" or "you didn't build that") or Biden's (e.g., asking a disabled person to stand up in a crowd, claiming that FDR went on TV after the 1929 stock market crash, "'jobs' is a 3-letter word" and many, many more) or Elizabeth Warren's alleged American Indian ancestry?
Fact is that the pro-abortion crowd, which would be the part of the electorate offended by Akin's gaffe, would be already voting for McKaskill anyway. And I wouldn't think that abortion is such a hot button issue this year anyway.
Maybe so. But what about beyond MO. Remember how Mark Foley impacted the entire national scene. Akin could as well. Foley may have been re-elected had he run again and won-who knows. But he would be sitting there in Congress with a bull's eye on his head. Same will happen with Akin if he wins. We don't need that.
the desperate ‘Rats are out there jumping down his throat because they know they’re behind and have to use every opportunity.
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Well, this ignoramus gave them an opportunity.....a very big opportunity. The people of MO should have listened to Sarah Palin and chosen Sarah Steele as the GOP candidate.
Closest thing in recent years I can compare this to is George Allen's "macaca" remark. But that was in VA where the WaPo has its clout, and I think it was closer to the election in timing. It hurt Allen in a close race, but that was a 'Rat year nationally. Missouri has no equivalent to the WaPo. And most importantly, abortion is not on the radar screen nationally this year.
No, the drive-bys will have a field day with Akin for a couple of days, but the GOP National Convention will knock it out of the headlines next week.
The Greens have Dr. Jill Stein, a Harvard graduate physician. She is a neat conservatively dressed gray haired woman. The Roseanne Barr competition was pretty much a joke, although it did bring some publicity to the race. RB will probably do better in California than she did nationally with the Greens, although she did well with black voters.
The Greens have Dr. Jill Stein, a Harvard graduate physician. She is a neat conservatively dressed gray haired woman. The Roseanne Barr competition was pretty much a joke, although it did bring some publicity to the race. RB will probably do better in California than she did nationally with the Greens, although she did well with black voters.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
Stein, yes, forgot her name. She’s the one who ran for MA Governor on the Rainbow Green ticket or something like that. LOL
With no Nader she’s in the running for 3rd place but I’d bet on Johnson getting that ‘honor’ over her and Goode.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I encountered one report that said she did a better job than Romney when they debated in MA. I do hope they will let the small party candidates take part in at least some of the debates. One thing that separates the Green Party from the big parties, and I think also the others is that they take no corporate or big labor donations. How refreshing.
A third party candidate they will let in the POTUS debates if they hit like 15% in the polls. Not gonna happen for any of them, not by a mile. They will have their own debate that Romney and Obama will not attend. So Stein ain’t gonna be in the ring with Romney again. I recall hearing he did do bad in those 2002 debates, I thought he would lose but he still beat the rat O’Brien.
No corporate or labor money is nice, but to be fair I doubt any of the third parties have been offered any. I doubt the Greens would refuse labor money. The Libertarians and Constitution parties maybe would reject corporate if offered but they will not get offered any. No one wants to a buy a party that can’t win, there would be no point.
Dr. Jill Stein, from Lexington. Typical yenta that has too much time and money...
“I thought he would lose but he still beat the rat O’Brien.”
Shannon O’Brien is a repulsive douche...very much like Coakley and Warren (notice a trend?).
Glove’s biggest attribute is that he runs against such bile that he looks good by comparison.
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