[Poohbah]

Are you having your own conversation over there? Exactly what fruitcakes are you talking about and what does that have to do with the price of rice?

The US Taxpayer Party comes to mind.

In 1996, one of the local San Diego "pro-family" outfits set out to deliberately split the vote, with the *DECLARED* intention of electing a radical pro-abort and pro-gay-marriage candidate in my district--to "teach the Republicans a lesson."

They commissioned some push polls to clobber the GOP candidate (a fiscal conservative who didn't perfectly hew to the "pro-family" group's agenda), and then pushed a former bus driver running on the USTP ticket as their candidate.

The vote for the USTP candidate was about 0.5% higher than the Democrat's margin of victory.

And, what happens in 2002? The exact same scenario that they employed in 1996.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Had not heard of this in San Diego. Anyone that votes for the US Taxpayers party need their head examined, sound like a bunch of Loosertarians.

When will people learn that Ralph Nader and Ross Perot did nothing but cause friend fire accidents.

I don't share your pessimism, I think the Dems learned from Nader, and the GOP learned from the Perot effect. I don't think either party will be that surprised this election.