Wait until you see who they want to draft:
"Web primary aims to find third option for president; Millions raised to secure ballot access" by Brian C. Mooney Globe Staff / November 13, 2011
Frustrated by the gridlock in Washington, a well-funded bipartisan group of activists and political professionals plans to give voters a third choice for president in 2012.
The ALARM BELLS are ALREADY RINGING!!
They want to choose a candidate through a national nominating process on the Internet, and have the candidate prequalified for the ballot in all 50 states. The blueprint calls for the presidential candidate to choose a running mate from another party - or no party at all.
But somehow Internet support means nothing when it is Ron Paul.
While some of the organizers were behind a similar effort in 2008 that collapsed for lack of funding, this new group has raised 10 times as much money - more than $20 million - and is confident it can pull it off.
I'm so glad millions are easily available for politics while the economy is total s***.
“This is a way to blow up the status quo,’’ said Mark McKinnon, a veteran media strategist, whose Republican campaigns include George W. Bush’s two presidential victories and John McCain’s 2008 defeat. He also worked for Texas Democrat Ann Richards....
He IS the STATUS QUO!!
McKinnon said his what-if list includes two former Republican governors, Jon Huntsman of Utah and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, who are currently vying for the GOP nomination but are struggling to gain traction and hoping for a breakthrough in the New Hampshire primary.
Roemer was elected governor as a Democrat but switched his party affiliation near the end of his tenure....
There is also a sitting senator, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who failed in a 2004 bid for the Democratic nomination and has since become an independent.
Gotta be out of your mind, fellah.
Related: Brown's Senate Service Template
Stolen elections are nothing new to Joe.
Others on McKinnon's list are former television news anchor Tom Brokaw; and a pair of secretaries of state, both African-Americans, under George W. Bush -- retired general Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice....
Now you know who NOT to vote for.
Related:
"Rice recalls tense clashes on policy" October 23, 2011|By Peter Baker, New York Times
WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice clashed repeatedly with Vice President Dick Cheney over what to do with captured terrorism suspects and at one point even threatened to resign when she felt circumvented, according to a memoir of her time in Washington, due out next month.
In the book, Rice provides a vivid account of the tumultuous years after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, when the Bush administration struggled to reinvent the national security structure to protect the country from a new kind of enemy....
Then why was the Patriot Act already written and ready to go?
Rice’s book, “No Higher Honor,’’ was obtained by The New York Times in advance of its Nov. 1 publication by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House. It is the latest in a string of memoirs emerging from Bush administration figures trying to define the history of their tenure....
Sorry, we've already done it. We know about the war crimes and lies.
The flurry of books has underscored in stark terms the tensions within the Bush team. Rice bristled at memoirs by Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, which criticized her management of the National Security Council in the first term and her efforts to increase diplomacy in the second term.
Rice was perhaps Bush’s closest adviser. But she writes of one time that she and the president spoke sharply with each other in a meeting in December 2006 over whether to send more troops to Iraq. He favored an increase in troop levels and a new strategy to protect the Iraqi population, while she wanted to pull troops out of the cities.
“So what’s your plan, Condi?’’ the president asked testily, as she recounts it. “We’ll just let them kill each other, and we’ll stand by and try to pick up the pieces?’’
She writes that she was angered by the implication that she did not care about winning in Iraq and retorted that “if they want to have a civil war we’re going to have to let them.’’
The most intense confrontation came in August 2006 when she urged Bush to acknowledge holding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorism suspects in secret prisons overseas.
Where they tortured people.
She and Cheney argued for several minutes while others remained uncomfortably silent. Bush sided with Rice.
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Also see: Tortuous Immunity
Sorry, lady, you get none.
The current combustible political climate makes a third-party candidacy more feasible, according to survey research done last spring for Americans Elect by veteran pollster Douglas Schoen, whose political clients include Bill Clinton during his 1996 presidential reelection campaign....
And makes it EASIER to RIG the VOTE!
State Representative Daniel B. Winslow, Republican of Norfolk, is the group's chief legal counsel. Winslow, who served about two years as counsel to Governor Mitt Romney, supports Romney in the Republican presidential nominating process.
??????? Another RIGGED FRONT by the RICH!
Because he is an outside contractor, Winslow said, he is exempt from corporate bylaws requiring neutrality by officers and directors....
There have been many unsuccessful third-party or independent candidacies for president. The last to win any electoral votes was George C. Wallace, running as the American Independent Party candidate in 1968. He received 13.5 percent of the vote and 46 electoral votes in five states of the Deep South. More recently, business tycoon Ross Perot of the Reform Party received almost 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 but fell to about 8 percent four years later. In 2000, Democrats blamed Ralph Nader’s third-party candidacy for Republican George W. Bush’s victory, maintaining he drew votes in Florida that would have tipped the state, and the Electoral College, to Al Gore....
First of all, Gore actually did win. The Bushes stole that state with help of Gov. brother Jeb.
The other thing is that I have voted for Nader 3 times (1996, 2000, and 2008). My reason was simple: he was the only one with the balls to call for war crimes trials for Bush administration officials, and if Ron Paul is denied the Republican nomination I will be writing in Ralph.
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Also see: AmeriKan Media Searching For Any Alternative to Ron Paul
They even have a back-up plan.
