Many people have tried running for major office as third party candidates. If one runs as the sole candidate, he/she will lose. Elections are won from the bottom up, not the top down.
Mayor Bloomberg can win first because he has his own money and can speak legitimately for himself - no-one needs to buy him. Second if he has candidates on a ticket for Congressional and Senatorial Seats. So, if people out there are interested in taking part in a successful third party win, some of you will have to get in the race with him. You don't necessarily need lots of money, a few faithful volunteers can be vital to your win.
In my almost forty years of political activism, I have worked with a few poorly funded campaigns and won. For those who are sponsoring the Mayor's draft, think about this advice, you will only win, if actually winning the election is what interests you, from the bottom up!
I can be reached by e-mail at dmreed2@verizon.net. Personally, I believe people are interested in "Outside Washingtonians" in both the Administration and Legislature. The present contenders are so 'over-monied' everyone knows they can not speak for themselves. And, they have gotten so involved in personal as well as nasty attacks, people are turned off. They are all losers!
'People' are really not dumb, numb - maybe, but not dumb. They ARE looking for real solutions to real problems. They know our bureaucracies are not working. There is a visiting professor at George Mason University who has been a legislator in another country which at one time had the most successful economy in the world. It slipped until it was forced to take stock of itself. The solution could be summed up in one word, 'accountability'. One needs to ask the question "does the solution solve the problem?"
One need only look at our Veterans Administration to learn the lesson of failure to be accountable. The Walter Reed hospital debacle is the best example. In spite of that horrible mess and failure to care for the very people upon whom our society depends, candidates on both sides of the aisle play ignorant by not even mentioning how they would solve such problems. The answer to that kind of question is what a President does - or should do! So while the Dems talk about National Health Care, the Repubs try to out-health care them. Both are too far off the mark. So, America needs a candidate whose attention to detail is centered on real solutions rather than on who furnished the money to get in the race in the first place, as well as how best they can slaughter their opponents.
The very designation 'Third Party' is crafted to tell the electorate there are only two parties. Parties are not even mentioned in the constitution, so who decided we have only two parties? And why? Think about that!
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Winning as a "Third Party" Candidate
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the Republican Party was once a third party. There are two parties because in the past they adjusted to accept the ideas of the third parties. Today they exist by inertia, particularly the Democratic party. The MSM have kept it on life support for years. Only 2 winning Democrats since FDR have gotten a majority of the popular vote.
The 2004 election was only close because the MSM lied about John Kerry including Dan Rather's irrelevant stories about Bush's National Guard service. Questions about a president should focus on his presidency rather than what he did decades earlier.
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