I want to give a cheer to the third parties, the brave souls who run a different path apart from the flawed two-party system. Let's hear it for the independents, who would rather do what's best for the country than to be a puppet for their huge faceless political machine. I understand a lot of independents represent a third party, but those new ideas are exactly what this system needs now days.

So many Republicans and Democrats treat politics like a football game, and waste so much energy hating on each other, unaware of the degree that 'their' party is guilty some of the same things for which they blame the 'other party.



To third parties and independents!

(dons flame resistant clothes...)

takes up fire extinguisher and stands by MT....

Hooks up 2" fire hose & stands ready.

Odd... I don't think the lynching Mob is coming...

well lets see...realized years ago there is no difference between GOP
& Dems...voting independent ever since...even Perot & Jesse Ventura...
Ron Paul began as a libertarian...turned GOP to be elected and has
followed a constitutional philosophy during his tenor in government...

we need to elect Dr No .....there is no other choice...

as long as the winner does not need to get 51% of the vote

and the electoral college is in place

you will have a better chance carrying a bucket of water
the length of a football field with 1/2 the bottom pf
the bucket missing than to elect a third party candidate

and that is a true shame

all most communistic in nature even

after all if both candidates are evil then evil is going to win

imagine that

I voted for Harry Brown (Libertarian) in 2000, because I liked their views, and I didn't like Bush or Gore(still don't). When everyone I know found out how I voted, they all said the same thing: You're wasting your vote. As long as that attitude prevails, we'll never escape from the Republican/Democrat merry-go-round.

Of course, we elect a third-party guy Governor of Minnesota(Jessee Ventura) and he ends up setting 3rd party candidates back 20 years.

I hate that "wasted vote" idiology....to me the wasted vote is when you have
to choose between 2 candidates that are both worthless & paid for...

I'm not sure if we know the whole story about Jesse in Minn..(I was living
there at the time) ...but the thing about Ventura is that it did show that a
3rd party candidate can win...

of course we are further along in the voting machine problem now...so
maybe nothing matters....

I voted Harry Brown also...(think he recently died...too bad)

The problem with the two party system is that you must be a pragmatist. Many people will never get everything that they want from a traditional candidate, so they instead vote Independent. This has resulting in a dumbing down of politics, so that the majority of people either vote Democrat or Republican without even knowing the candidate or the abstaining from voting altogether. I vote Republican, because the Republican party traditionally stands for many of the issues I hold dear and also because they are right on economics the majority of the time. Republicans have been a real diappointment in the past few years, but they are still the lesser of two evils in my opinion.

<<<<<<<<<<vote libaterian when they get on the ballot

ohio is giving the party the shaft

hard to get them on the ballot here

all tho brown did make it

I do like the libertarian platform....and the focus on the constitution...
so that expains my support for RP

havent seen a real republican since goldwater...(he's turning over in his grave I bet)