[maryz]

Your cabinet choices sound great . . . most unlikely they'd be Mitt's choices. I'm in MA, and the one thing I recall Mitt being really firm and insistent on is that he would not have one Jim Rappaport (the party's choice) as his lt.gov. Someone who follows local politics more closely than I said it was because Rappaport would not have been a lapdog for Mitt. So Mitt found an unknown who would be just that.

[Agamemnon]

Your cabinet choices sound great . . . most unlikely they'd be Mitt's choices. I'm in MA, ...

I'm in CT, grew up in RI and MA in the 60's and '70's. I know what lack of representation means and we held the equivalent of Tea Party rallies calling for Victory in Vietnam outside the Park Plaza (the known as the Staler Hilton) in Boston at the little park across the street over 4th of July at the time.

Victory in the Sky on the 4th of July!

With Black and Conservative author, George Schuyler at “Victory in the Sky” July 4, 1970 (I’m in the yellow windbreaker)

Third parties don't win anything. They are only spoilers. Theodore Roosevelt's Bull-Moose in 1912 gave us Wilson. In 1972 the American Independent Party ran John Schmitz/Tom Anderson. In 1976 some third party thought former Governor Lester Maddox would take out Carter, when (as imperfect as he was )Ford needed every vote he could get. How did 1977 -1981 turnout fo the US anyway?

Libs ran John Anderson to try to knock out Reagan in 1980 (fail). Perot gave us Clinton two times. The only 3rd party that ever advantaged anything was Wallace back in 1968 to assure (the substantially imperfect but better that Pinko Humphrey) Richard Nixon's win.

Take over the Party apparatus of the Party you have, don't waste time and effort spinning your wheels in ways that while it may make you feel better for a short time only gurantees the victory of whoever wins in the end.

FReegards!