I'm not sure if that's true or not. If we had a system that honestly included more than 2 parties, I think people would fall into various categories that suit them naturally. The Libertarian Party is mostly home to people that are just cantankerous. I love them dearly, they are some of my favorite drinking buddies and always have been. But they are a big party not so much because of political inclination but because they are a party for people that are just too cranky, drunk and gun loving for the normal parties and don't care. That makes them great people to hang with but does tend to cap the size of the party.
Judah On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think if folks get "pushed" anywhere it will be toward the Libertarians... > They already have a much larger base then any other "3rd" party > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC 27616 > (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:36 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: lefties forming new group to push Democrats farther left > > >> If we can change our system around so that more than 2 parties are >> viable then we wouldn't have this issue so much. On the other side of >> the aisle, look for primary challenges to the three Republican >> Senators that voted for the stimulus bill. > > This is something that a lot of people are saying - the biggest > problem with third parties is the fact that the congressional rules, > power distributions and differentiation has been built based entirely > on the two-party system. You don't see anything about political > parties in the Constitution and yet politics in America as been, with > a few exceptions, based on two parties. > > I originally thought that this year's election would drive more people > to the Progressive and Conservative parties and increase their voting > base. That might have triggered a rewrite of the congressional rules. > Doesn't look like that happened. Then again, I had hoped that this > election would have been an incumbent killer and that didn't happen > either. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
