Who else thinks we need a third party candidate to win the presidency?

Question

I think we need one as both the republicans and demoncats are only out to feather their nests. What about Bush not closing the border and refusing to free the border patrol detanees who were doing their job?

Answer 1

We only need a third party candidate if the dems are foolish enough to allow Clinton to be nominated. Then Nader will make sure she has no chance of being elected. Otherwise two parties are enough.

Answer 2

Look, many of the replies I have read so far seem not to realize a few important facts. The president is elected by the Electoral College making election of a third party candidate nearly impossible. Ross Perot, while he did excite many people to join in the process who normally did not, was not a conservative. He did not even have a handle on the type of government we have. He kept espousing the use of mass voting on issues by the people. This is not a democracy. This is a representative republic. That means that we do not vote directly on particular bills or issues but we vote for representatives to do that for us.
Pure democracies don't last long due to the tyrany of the majority. In a representative republic, the rights of the minority must be respected.

Example: Three men and one woman in a room. The men vote that the woman remove all of her clothes. She votes no but in a pure democracy she loses. In a republic, they would need her consent to even bring the issue to a vote. See how her rights as the minority are protected from the tyrany of the majority? This is a very important aspect of our form of government. That is why congress has to get things agreed to in committees, why for certain important votes you need more than a simple majority etc.

For our form of government, the two party system works best. You would have much more success steering the country in a specific direction by selecting one major party and influencing the other members.

I also hear people constantly carping about how nothing gets done in congress. That is how the system was sepcifically designed. It is supposed to be slow and deliberate. The founders saw the congress as a part time job that a person who has another career would serve a term or two and go back to his career. Not the career politicians we have now. The founders did not want a zillion new laws passed every session.

Answer 3

I agree with you fully on the need for a strong third party. I lean to the right and have in the past favored the constitution party. Peroutka was the last presidential runner. The way that I see it is that even if a third party couldn't win then it would force one of the two parties or both to adopt some of the third parties policies--Remember how Ross Perot forced both the republicans and democrats to shift to the right. With Republican's putting McCain, Romney, and Guliani up I think I'll vote third party once again--though if Tancredo can make it to that point I'll give him a sympathy vote.

Answer 4

As a person who has been around politics for a long time, let me say that it is not the party that people care about. It is the candidate in that party. People voting for the president go by the way they feel about the candidate. However, when it comes to voting for Congress and the Senate, if the people think the president is not doing a good job in the party he is in, the voters will react to that as they did in the last congressional and senate election.

Answer 5

Yes..I agree! We desperatly need a 3rd party....and I belong to the Consitution party. But, having said that, it's also a reality that no person will be elected that isn't a member of Skulls and Bones. Unless maybe we get off our butts and raise a rukus. Also, with the last election being rigged.....I really don't see any hope. I think we all need to pray A LOT for our nation.

Answer 6

Wouldn't that be great?? I'm so sick of this 2 party system, they're all the same, with very few exceptions. I'd love to have at least some sort of term limits for Congress so they can stop making themselves richer and more powerful abusing their authority. How many of them think of their constituents welfare first instead of their own? All they care about is throwing us a bone every so often so they can be re-elected. Sickening.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Ross Perot tried having a 3rd party as did Ralph Nader. As much as people claim that they hate the stench of liars and stealing, they seem to support the candidate with the most money who can buy the most media and tell the most lies.

Unfortunately our news sources are biased also.

Answer 9

I've always said neither Reps or Dems are worth the powder to blow them anywhere. There isn't a lot of difference between the two sides. We need to toss them all out and start all over with completely different parties.

Answer 10

The Republicans and Democrats are all in cahoots with each other. We need someone to run for office that doesn't come from a filthy rich family and have plastic celebrities as endorsers.