Will Mccain bring about a viable third party?

Answer 1

No.McCain has too much of the loyal soldier in him. He may bring the Republican party to it's collective knees in the next primary season. (please God) But unless the right wing Christian forces really go over the line with civil rights I don't see it happening. But then again Lincoln was a third party candidate....

Answer 2

A viable third pary would be good but I do not think it is going to happen in the way you think.

The Republicans draw votes from conservatives and moderates, about 50/50.

The Democrats draw votes from socialists, greens, liberals and some moderates and is the more splintered party. A viable third party could come from these groups more easily than not but it will never win the WH and will only win a small minority of Congress.

There are more moderates than any other ideology and they have for the large part voted with the party that showed themselves to be moderate, remember slick willy the socialist in centrist clothing. Hillary is positioning herself in the same way right now. These are not stupid people, they know where the voters are.

So you could have a liberal party, a conservative party and a moderate party, but the end result is the majority would always be from the moderate party.

What the Dems have failed to do in their search for every possible vote is to realize that what they are attracting are the extremists, not the majority and they are turning away the moderates with the extremist views and positions.

The Repubs have not sought out the extremists in society and have stuck with a moderate, albeit conservative position.

Maybe moderates, me, are really conservatives and just don't know it.

Sorry more questions than answers.

Answer 3

It would seem like Joe Lieberman is making the best attempt at it for now. McCain is strongly behind the Republican party, and I'm not so sure he will abandon them at this point but that could change. I really don't blame them for being disallusioned at the two party system. I don't understand how someone could compromise their own beliefs and principals in order to stand in line with a political party. I just couldn't do that!

Answer 4

No. His views do not fit in with any of the smaller parties.

If he wanted to start his own party and be successful, he would have to make a number of changes to our electoral process first:

1.) Direct election of the president - abolish the electoral college

2.) Real campaign finance reform - right now they just use an intermediary to funnel money to candidates

3.) Model our house of representatives after the current German system. (Basically if a smaller party gets a certain percentage of the vote, they get that percentage of seats in the house, IE. let's say the Green party earns 5% of the votes, they will have 5% of the seats in the house)

Answer 5

I like the man and I'm a liberal,hes a good man and if any one could make a viable Third party he just might could do it.I'm from AZ so I know him as a fine person.

Answer 6

He could.
I don't like McCain, but he certainly would put a 3rd party on the map. If he went to the Libertarians, I would give him a good look.
He actually could win, but probably not, bad success rate for 3rd parties in our country. But again, he would make a 3rd party viable, so would Rudy G.

Answer 7

third partys in a traditiona two party system only acts as the clown at the big events, or like the artist that comes on right before the big stars.they are good to fill the void but are not considerd as serious contenders when the real thing strarts.

Answer 8

No way. Does he have a principled stand on any issue. He's just another grand standing politician. He's not for freedom, see the McCain campaign finance reform plan. He's promotes fascism see his stand on tobacco taxes, and the looting of the the tobacco industry.

He is nothing more than a media hound.

Answer 9

as far as i am going to tell they don't have any solutions to the major complications u.s. will be dealing with interior the introduction years. the single major situation that may be the most objective of each and every speech and each and every debate and on each and every electorate concepts is the business equipment and decline of the greenback. we are going to spend ourselves into oblivion. we are over spending, over taxing and borrowing funds from international places alongside with China only to maintain this downward spiral. Obama needs to go back abode from Iraq and Hillary turn flops a lot I guess she sleeps on different aspects of the mattress each and every nighttime because she will't make up her concepts. Obama has my approval on coming abode from Iraq *** it truly is a significant drain on our economic equipment and is a unnecessary conflict that became in accordance to lies and deceiving the yank people. an additional beneficial step might want to be to deliver our troops international huge abode. we are in one hundred thirty of the single hundred seventy international places in this international with over seven-hundred protection rigidity depending spread throughout the time of those one hundred thirty international places. Why? What want do we ought to positioned troops in different international places even as there are both larges oceans isolating us on both part? the subsequent qualm I genuinely have is the actual undeniable reality that they prefer to improve spending on prevalent health look after each and every man or woman. the first infant boomers were eligible for Social protection as of January one million, 2008. there is genuinely no way we may have the funds for to pay for the social protection needs of each and absolutely everyone. On appropriate of that Bush only approved the insurance of drugs less than medicare/medicade which I study, i trust, will positioned yet another 30-40 billion greenback rigidity on our funds. So no i do not imagine they're going to remedy something extraordinarily with the acceptance as being the party of massive authorities and huge spending.

Answer 10

Nope