Re: [RC] Who would be your ideal populist candidate?

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke1 Signature

I could live with several of the Republican candidates running. Wayne A. Root would be another choice (Libertarian). It's basically up to the Republicans and the Independents to keep me from punching the Libertarian Party ticket in 2012. David "Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke On 10/10/2011 4:38 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote:   Ain't it the truth ?   BHO has been a huge flop. None of the GOP candidates are competent, or if one or two are, they have so much baggage that they create strong resistance to voting for them.   Time for a hero. Will one emerge ?  A major gamble for anyone who tries. If this was the past, Buchanan would have a shot at it, but this isn't the past. Best he could do now is make himself relevant again.   From the Left ?  I'm thinking about it but no answers just yet. For that matter,' since Buchanan is essentially ex-GOP,  I still haven't come up with anyone from the Right, either.     Billy     -----------------------------------------------------------------   10/10/2011 2:19:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, drer...@radicalcentrism.org writes: Dang, someone beat me to it: http://www.politico.com/politicoprimary/ The public has had it with Washington and conventional politics. It has lost trust and respect in the conventional governing class. There is mounting evidence voters don't see President Barack Obama or the current crop of GOP candidates as the clear and easy solution. As Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg argues, it seems likely if not inevitable an atmosphere this toxic and destabilized will produce an independent presidential candidate who could shake the political system. On Oct 10, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Let's play the hypothetical game, since it is conceivable it could become real: http://www.americanselect.org/official-documents Say the Occupy Wall Street group turns into a Tea Party of the Left, complete with its own Sarah Palin-esque leaders. Say that AmericansElect gets critical mass, and manages to avoid terminal dysfunction. Say that centrists get energized and mobilized to find a way to pull this all together. What then? The more I think about it, the more I suspect we actually need a "person" not a position paper.  An individual who is ideologically pragmatic and ruthlessly competent.  Who has the managerial skills and political temperament to be President, but didn't have the stomach for a traditional nomination process. If we can find that person now, before the media circus, perhaps we can help influence him (or her) to take the stage. Even Draft them if necessary. But who?   Billy, you're the researcher:  who's smart and centrist enough to theoretically rally both sides of the populist vote? -- Ernie P. P.S. And no, before you ask, I'm not available until my daughter turns three (she turns one next month).  -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org   -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org