Posted on 09/04/2012 9:37:06 PM PDT by Steelfish
The Nader Effect In Play After Virginia's Decision By Scott Bomboy
A decision in Virginia to allow Virgil Goode on the presidential ballot could shake up the national election. And Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has now come into the spoiler picture.
For the past few weeks, Goode, the Constitutional party presidential candidate, and Johnson have been afterthoughts in the national presidential campaign involving President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
But Goode won the right on Tuesday to appear on the Virginia ballot, in a move that could hurt Romney’s chances of taking the key swing state in November.
And now Ron Paul has come with some kind words about Johnson, the former New Mexico governor who will appear on many state ballots as a presidential candidate.
Johnson would be a potential factor in states like Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, and he could hurt either Obama or Romney, depending on how the political winds are blowing by November.
Republicans have vowed to prove that Goode, who has held various political offices in Virginia, doesn’t have enough legal petition signatures to run.
Johnson faces similar challenges. Last week, his campaign said the GOP has challenged his ballot presence in Michigan, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Iowa and Ohio.
In August, Goode lost his quest to get on Pennsylvania’s ballot. One national poll had Johnson with 5.3 percent of the national vote in July, while a poll this summer in Virginia had Goode with 9 percent of that state’s presidential vote.
In reality, even 1 percent of the vote in a battleground state could determine the national election, like Ralph Nader did in 2000.
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If you cannot organize enough people to take over the GOP, you are NEVER going to organize enough people to do the much harder work of setting up a viable third party.
Scream and posture all you want, we know the truth. YOUR candidate did not win the GOP nomination so in a fit of childish spite you are doing everything you can to “Get even” with the GOP for not doing what YOU wanted.
That is petulant, childish and stupid. So lie to yourself all you want, the rest of us know full well what the sour grapes choir is doing here
Agree.
Given the way this looks, Goode is more likely working for the left than anything else.
My opinion is that Goode and Johnson will have no more impact than Anderson.
Obama is going down. It's 1980 all over again.
If I agreed with Romney on 85% of the issues I would be voting for him. Romney agrees with Obama on more issues than he agrees with me. I will be happy to see Obama gone but sad that the liberals will still be in control, and that good well meaning people will think that it is a victory. BTW Chicken Little’s the sky is falling story is a children’s story. Real adults know it is not true.
Either you are Demobot lying about your real agenda in the hope your fake uber conservative posturing will give you a fake gloss of credibility or you are a complete political moron who has NO clue at all how politics in the US works. So which is it? Are you a political fraud or a political moron?
By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Reagan would not satisfy some of these crack pots.
Exactly - the “purists” who rather obama get 4 more years than try something different in the name of so called “principle”.
A bunch of a delusional sickos.
They are disgraceful by actually trying to convince us and them that they are doing Gods’ work by handing obama 4 more years.
And just what do these delusional crack pots and clinical psychotics think is going to happen in 2016?
Are these freaks of the mind that a magical conservative is going to appear in 2016 to save the day?
LOL. These nut jobs and phonies are faker than a $3 dollar bill, every last one of them.
While I am clearly more Conservative than either Goode or Romney, I am strongly supporting Romney for the reasons stated in Romney/Ryan.
This does not mean that I do not respect Virgil Goode, who would have had my support if some of the other Republican candidates had gotten the nomination.
But, again, with the right sort of persuasion, most of the votes that would otherwise go to Goode, can be won for Romney. Insulting Goode, is just not the key to winning those votes.
William Flax
Yes, well, I cannot speak for “Romney-bots”, but I can speak for myself, a conservative who wants Obamugabe removed from the Oval Office.
I will be quite upset if Mr. Goode gets votes from those who, in a strict two party race, would go for Romney.
Our Republic is on the line, and though Romney isn’t the greatest man who ever walked the earth, it’ll either be him or Obamugabe in the White House next January...and Romney is the preferred choice.
If I lied to myself I could be like you and believe how all will be well if only Romney wins. You do not defend your position with anything but childish insults and name calling. You and the Liberal RINOs are the reason Obama is President, and sadly you will never change.
Nice try but we see your sort of leftist clown bot every election year. When you have to lie about your real agenda in the vain hope people will pay attention to you, you have all ready lost the debate.
Spare us the self serving drivel. Your position is pure sour grapes whining because your personal political opinions cannot be imposed 100% for you the way you feel they should be.
You are merely rationalize your political cowardice and laziness by wrapping it in a fake glaze of sanctimonious “principal”.
Oh please - how many other straw man arguments do you have to support giving obama 4 more years?
Wow what a revelation. Had you asked I would have told you this is a new account. Please show where I lied. Name calling is not debate.
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