Thank you...that's like the 15 or so Romney haters at FR, who jump in these threads just to troll for Goode or Johnson. I suspect they're plants shilling for Zero.
Posted on 10/03/2012 9:30:16 AM PDT by defeat_the_dem_igods
The debates have been a contrived farce, ever since the League of Women Voters were replaced by the CPD.
Democracy Now looks at how the Democrats and Republicans manage to shut out all third parties from the presidential debates.
The Obama and Romney campaigns have secretly negotiated a detailed contract that dictates many of the terms of the 2012 presidential debates. This includes who gets to participate, as well as the topics raised during the debates.
Reagan got about 51% of the vote, Anderson 7%, and Carter 41%.
KING POLL IS DEAD
Third parties are just shills for Democrats.
Keep all of them out.
Especially those loons Goode and Johnson.
...more like Marxist Now.
Just one Pinko after another over there.
Conservatives can’t raise enough free $peech to compete with the left and right wings of the same of prey. People who buy the office with contributions rule. Money talks and politicians listen. Citizens United decision was the final nail in Conservative’s coffin.
I agree with you, Bobo.
Too bad so many conservatives are to “purist” to see that. They’d rather condemn us to four more years of Zero than be a team player.
Perot was included in 1992, but not in 1996 and both decisions were correct because the Perot of 1996 did not have the support that the Perot of 1992 did.
What happened was that Anderson’s poll numbers declined when it became closer to Election Day which was why the second debate was just Reagan and Carter.
thank you.
sometimes i feel alone.
Blessings to you!
greg
A “team player”? You mean like how the GOPe is treating Akin? Seems more to me like they want party loyalty to be a one-way street.
Seems like you get the same result sending to the current RNC. If enough states do that, it's a different RNC.
In all cases the way to change the national GOP is to change it on the local and state level.
No, its called maintaing chains of command.
Amen. I remember when Buchanan won New Hampshire, Bill Bennett and the RINOs were getting ready to start a 3rd party if Buchanan kept winning GOP primaries.
Time to buy a new dog when that happens! Anybody can tell you that.
You do see that problem, right?
I expect a far more complex response well grounded in established political theory than you've provided so far.
Yes, which entails changing at the local level. Which will necessarily effect changing it at the national level, the RNC.
Glad we finally agree. :)
I’m sorry sir, but they do not command me.
Legal existence is the be all and end all of political parties. Candidates beseech the permission of the party to run under its name.
The RNC is separately incorporated and is not "THE PARTY" however it has an annual and semi-annual meeting responsibility AND it administers the presidential nominating convention.
It is a simple matter to create an alternative body and have the states sign up to use it for those purposes ~ and there are undoubtedly some state Republican parties ready to do that. I used Texas as an example ~
Back before the Civil War there was quite a bit of party organization agitation. The Whig party fell apart. The Republican party rose up ~ but the Democrat party also fell apart and broke into Southern and Northern branches, and two other parties coalesced around independent candidacies which were also positioned to deal with the slavery question.
At the state level these various changes were a zoo but that's where the real action was, particularly for the Democrats who ended up in two separate countries in roughly the same states they started out with, but without a working coalition.
Then there was the war, the war ended, things were stuck back together, new ways of coordinating the state parties were worked out and finally that all came to an end with the compromise of 1876.
I don't think anything happened during that period when it comes to party organization that couldn't be done over with the modern Republican party machinery.
It's time to try it ~ we have a problem and those people need to be cut loose ~ after all, where they gonna' go, to the Democrats? BWahahahahaaaaa!!
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