Third Party for 2012

bergall · 10-20-2011, 09:00 AM

Just wondering....Patrick Buchanan maintains that a 3rd party rising for he 2012 elections will guarantee a win for Obama. He poses the possibility of a third party "Tea Party" party, if Mitt Romney is nominated to represent the republican party as a protest movement to dump an unsatisfactory candidate. Would you vote 3rd party if the candidate was Herman Cain ? How about Ron Paul ?

ipscshooter · 10-20-2011, 09:07 AM

Pat's right. A tea party Third Party candidate will guarantee the re-election of Obama. We need to get the right candidate up front.

LBR · 10-20-2011, 09:10 AM

I'm afraid our memory as a country is short--it would be Ross Perot all over again. IPSC is correct--we need the right candidate to start with.

Chad

sachiko · 10-20-2011, 09:12 AM

Even if it's the "wrong" candidate. No Republican candidate could possibly be more WRONG than O'Bama.

Anyone promoting a third party should be publicly flogged.

brewman555 · 10-20-2011, 09:47 AM

Gotta agree with everybody.....third party will give the dictator another term.....now when we win in 2012 the new President had better turn this country around or I do believe there will be a third party in 2016......and it will be The Tea Party......

bergall · 10-20-2011, 12:22 PM

I think I'll throw in with Brewman....I do not believe Tea Party has matured sufficiently to be born as a third party. 2016, however will be a different matter if Romney is the go-to guy and he sux....a whole different story indeed !

And I would not be surprised to see 'familiar faces' as Tea Party members in 2016 either. THat will be a fast growing party as it appeals to a bipartisan membership, as long as they adhere to conservative principles. The national demokrat party has become rotten with socialists and ex-hippies and the like...they have disenfranchised southern conservative democrats long enough....

Terasec · 10-20-2011, 12:51 PM

a third party will only stand a chance if its a moderate who can take votes from both sides,
a 3rd party either on the right or left will just split dem or rep party votes and would help the other party,

RobertSubnet · 10-20-2011, 03:57 PM

I will vote for Mitt Romney before voting 3rd party. After the Ross Perot fiasco I think most people are smart enough to know that a 3rd party vote is a vote for Obama.

salukipv1 · 10-20-2011, 05:40 PM

We need instant run off voting.

Which means you get 2 votes essentially, your 1st vote could be for the 3rd party candidate, and if he clearly loses, your 2nd vote would count towards one of the main 2 parties...

CalHunter · 10-20-2011, 05:47 PM

I'm leery of 3rd party candidates also after Ross Perot's debacle. I agree that the Tea Party isn't necessarily strong enough yet to put up electable candidates for POTUS but think that ignores a lot of the Tea Party's strategy--Persuading fiscally conservative candidates, regardless of party, to run and govern more conservatively. In that respect, I think the Tea Party is achieving quite an effect.

As for a 3rd party candidate winning some day, I think the TP will probably help elect a center-right Republican some day who is fiscally conservative, wants to make government accountable and cost-effective and doesn't get sidetracked on social issues that are now in the purview of the SC anyway. Oddly enough, if the Democrats ever stopped tilting ultra liberal, they could use the same strategy to elect a POTUS but think their party has been permanently hijacked by ultra-libs who are not about to let the party drift back towards the center.