Should minor parties/independent candidates be banned from the ballot?

Wonders how Pastor Larry will answer...

My answer is of course, "No."

 

Is anyone happy with our present one party (DR) system? Does anyone not understand that the same people and businesses own both parties?

 

No - the majors should be banned

 

No! We'll be voting third party for sure next election. I'm sick to death of 16 years or so of pathetic POTUS. I've been voting Libertarian for some time now. They're not perfect, but I'm sick to death of professional political families!

love,

Sopranette

 

No.

I agree with Pete and Sopranette!

Jamie

 

With the Republicans on the verge of nominating a liberal and pro choice candidate (Giuliani or Romney), the answer is absolutely not. It is time to dismantle the Democratic and Republican parties that do nothing but feed the political appetite of the self indulgent pigs running the country. It is time to establish two parties that really want to serve the American people and do what is best for this country.

The numbers are out there. Its just a matter of doing it.

 

The Constitution Party is well established in Kentucky, and it is fine with me. As far as Mitt Romney goes, we will have to differ. I think he is as phoney as a three dollar bill, and no way he will get my vote.

We need new parties to win elections, not throw them to the other side. The idea is to rid ourselves of Democrats and Republicans.

 

Not at all. I think they should be on teh ballot, and I think when they have a legitimate candidate who has a chance of winning they should be strongly considered.

however, the future of this country should not be gambled with in the hopes of one day getting a party elected. Let's use common sense and work to build a third party without selling out the future of this country any more than it has been.

 

That's a pretty narrow view, much more narrow than I take. I think you build a viable party by building it first, and then asking people to vote for it. In the interests of the country, you don't sell the country down the river while building your own political fortunes.

 

Ken, if what you say is true about buidling a minor party from the infancy, then why is Ron Paul, a Libertarian, not doing that? Why is he getting involved in the Republican primary instead of focusing on building a minor party from infancy?

It seems to me that you claim one thing, and yet your candidate does something opposite.

 

If Paul is the typical libertarian (Big IF) I suspect he'd prefer to work within the two party system than build a third party, but is willing to do the latter if that's what it takes to spread the message. I doubt any lbtn wants to do things the hard way if it can be helped.

Excuses himself for answering a question addressed to another

 

Not as long as the 2 parties that control the issues continue to look, smell and talk the same game. We need the diversity of a multiple party system not the current dead locked 2 party system that is suppressing new political thinking.

 

If you think this is true, then you don't understand my methodology, or at least what my methodology would be if I were going to do this. I wish you wouldn't make comments about what my methodology would do when you don't really understand it.

My methodology would build a third party from the grass roots level, not the national level, and would develop a viability that way before throwing elections away with no chance to impact them for good.

I do too. And I hope they will continue, while not throwing away their votes by voting for a third party before its time. It is not good thinking, IMO, to pretend that the only way to develop a third party is to abandon the common sense voting when the party is in its infancy. It would be better to use my methodology, working hard to develop the party while ensuring that there is a semblance of liberty when that third party reaches maturity.