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Romney or Bachmann or Perry?

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Romney or Bachmann or Perry?

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Texashiker said:
Yes it is, its called voting for a third party.
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And what if one of these candidates lost their primary and ends up running as the 3rd party Libertarian candidate?
They nominated Bob Barr the idiot after all in 2008 to represent them, they won't have a problem nominating Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, or Rick Perry. Romney, yeah they might have a problem with.

Choosing between Romney(GOP candidate), Obama(DEM), Cynthia Mckinney(Green), Perry/Bachmann/Palin(Lib), and Lyndon LaRouche(whatever party he represents)?
I haven't heard any person running on the Libertarian ticket yet.

Oh, and I vote for person, not the party.
Blindly voting 3rd party without taking into account who they are is just as stupid as someone blindly voting Democrat or Republican.
 
a777pilot said:
I am not being gratuitously disrespectful. I am purposefully disrespectful of this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle.
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Again, though, why is "fool" capitalized? Is his official title "Bobo, the Post Turtle," or "this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle"? In any event there's nothing witty about your insult of President Obama, and obviously you're not getting much in the way of market penetration with it.

I ALWAYS referred to President Bush as President Bush, both here and in my personal life, despite my frustration with him in many material respects. I think "this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle" is as disrespectful to the presidency as it is witless.
 
lothar said:
Oh, and I vote for person, not the party.
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As long as the 2 major parties stay in power, there will be no real change - regardless of what the person says during the election.

Bill Clinton ran on a platform of being anti-free trade. He promised the people he would NOT sign the NAFTA trade agreement. But after he got into office, billy did a flip-flop on NAFTA.
 
Texashiker said:
As long as the 2 major parties stay in power, there will be no real change - regardless of what the person says during the election.

Bill Clinton ran on a platform of being anti-free trade. He promised the people he would NOT sign the NAFTA trade agreement. But after he got into office, billy did a flip-flop on NAFTA.
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You expect me to vote 3rd party just for the sake of being against the "2-parties" system if they nominate a Palin/LaRouche/McKinney like figure to represent them?
I vote for people, not parties.

That platform was simply just for political consumption. If he didn't run on it, he wouldn't have won. The same thing going on now with Obama and the Patriot Act/Guantanamo Bay/Military industrial complex along with many other issues.
 
Beating the two party system is an almost insurmountable collective action problem. It's very unlikely to happen. Until more states change to instant runoff voting or something similar, we're stuck with them.
 
lothar said:
"None of the above" isn't available as an option on the ballot when voting.
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That's when you don't bother voting because all of the choices suck.

Romney - Already caught on tape lying and flip flopping
Perry - Pandering to church going people w\ his whole day of prayer stunt
Bachman - Do you really think she has a chance? LOL
 
eskimospy said:
Beating the two party system is an almost insurmountable collective action problem. It's very unlikely to happen. Until more states change to instant runoff voting or something similar, we're stuck with them.
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It's pretty much impossible given current US voting laws and how the voting system is structured.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
Again, though, why is "fool" capitalized? Is his official title "Bobo, the Post Turtle," or "this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle"? In any event there's nothing witty about your insult of President Obama, and obviously you're not getting much in the way of market penetration with it.
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In his simpleton mind, he thinks he's being deep and philosophical every time he blurts out the "post turtle" line.
 
I selected "None of the above". Just like in 2008, I have a strong feeling I won't be filling in the POTUS part of the ballot this time around.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
Again, though, why is "fool" capitalized? Is his official title "Bobo, the Post Turtle," or "this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle"? In any event there's nothing witty about your insult of President Obama, and obviously you're not getting much in the way of market penetration with it.

I ALWAYS referred to President Bush as President Bush, both here and in my personal life, despite my frustration with him in many material respects. I think "this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle" is as disrespectful to the presidency as it is witless.
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I don't disagree with you but this President is a great insult and is very disrespectful to the office of the President of the United States.
 
a777pilot said:
I don't disagree with you but this President is a great insult and is very disrespectful to the office of the President of the United States.
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Well I'm pretty sure that almost everyone on here and likely everyone who knows you thinks you're a great insult to humanity, but I doubt people you talk to daily refer to you as "Jackass".
 
eskimospy said:
Beating the two party system is an almost insurmountable collective action problem. It's very unlikely to happen. Until more states change to instant runoff voting or something similar, we're stuck with them.
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The most and almost only VIABLE option for doing it is far worse than the current system.

It would involve the corrupt interests determining that merely dominating the current system isn't enough, and they want to get even more control.

What they would launch is a movement that is very well funded and publicized that flames the fires of populist anger and condemns the 'two party system' terribly, and pushes to get votes for it as the alternative - when it's really nothing but an even more corrupt alternative. A model for how this could go is the 'Tea Party'.

If the people fall for that campaign, and all indications are that they could, it would be akin to when democracies elect fascism, just as the 1930s's book "It can happen here" wrote.

But they really don't need to do something so difficult, when the Republican party is such an almost totally subservient group who will serve them as they want, and is being well positioned with more corporate money than ever before and election laws favoring them more than ever before, and enough inroads to corrupting some Democrats.
 
I think the Republican's best chance at retaking the White House in 2012 lies entirely on their ability to get Al Gore nominated as the Green Party candidate.
 
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