I’ve always thought of the Greens’ Sunflower as refreshing and opposed the idea of having to adopt an animal symbol to be a “legitimate party.”

Senator Eugene J. McCarthy was not a socialist. There were always a lot of socialist people, like me, who worked very hard in his campaigns due to the fact that he was such a fantastic and wonderful person. In politics, sometimes the personal is the political, as the radical feminists of the 70′s and 80′s used to say.

To my good friend, Don Lake;

When people do not take your suggestions after you have promoted them for long periods of time, it is time to move on to something else.

Yes and look how the ‘alternative’ is labled and packaged.

The Libertarians have done a near wonderful job on ichronography. But even they drop the ball on the 1776 Fort Mountrie flag [L I B E R T Y] and Don Lake’s 1990 21st Century Peace Symbol [of a three bladed electricity generator wind mill/ fan]!

The United States Constitution Party [nee the United States Taxpayers Party, and various state American Imdependent Party/ ies] has the Eagle and the Eagle Head as logos. Hmmmmm, kinda like that lovable institution, the U. S. Post Office. Kinda like ‘standing out by blending in…..’

This decades long stoke of pure stupidity is matched by the Veterans Party splinters, and the reform movement factions. Infact, the ‘Action Group’ of the ‘so called’ reform party has a Roman Empire Eagle which is exactly like the bird taken by Bunito Muscelli in 1921 as the ancient ‘fasci’ and the modern Fascist!

And the Green Party? No personal icons and the SUN FLOWER as featured symbol! [We are no longer in Kansas, every one!] Just stupid!

Look at Nader. [Before he was past shelf date!] ‘Declare your Independence????’ Oh please….. Folks would have killed for a NADER’S RAIDERS tee shirt or button. But the lawyers from the Nader effort, whom could not seem to get their guy on the California ballot, despite seasoned advice from Citizens For A Better Veterans Home and other 2003 sucessful historial Dump Davis veteran types, were ‘too smart by half’.

Teddy Roosevelt is the only 20th Century president to be carved on Mount Rushmore. He won a Nobel Prize, WHILE IN OFFICE, a century ago. He is the only president to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor! AND HE IS BEST KNOWN INDEPENDENT/ MAVERICK ever!

The Reformers, Greens, U. S. Constitution Party, VETS Party, Unity08, GOOOH, COIP and others should be jostling in line for usage of the L I B E R T Y Flag, the Wind Mill Peace Sign, Bull Moose, Theodore Roosevelt, 1912 Bull Moose running mate California Governor Hyman W. Johnson, Mount Rushmore, The Theodore Bear plush toy and [in James Gilchrist's case] the Minute Man.

The silence is under whelming, so is the ‘intelligence’!

Maybe, as dumb as the Republicrats and Democans are, other efforts and alternatives just are not smart enough to compete with the establishment’s steer manure!

I couldn’t help admiring a man who, in the midst of a presidential campaign, would take a day off to sit under a tree and read poetry. Besides, McCarthy almost single-handedly drove that a**hole Lyndon Johnson out of the presidency.

In addressing the Rainbow Coaltion during his last presidential campaign (1992), McCarthy said that people whose income was above a certain amount should give the ‘excess’ to the government. He said that if they didn’t give it voluntarily, “We should take it from them.”

I liked what McCarthy said about campaign finance. He noted that the government had great influence over the way that government officials are chosen.

I always wondered whether McCarthy would have run for a third term in the U. S. Senate in 1970 if Hubert Humphrey had not entered the race.

An even more important cause of the two party system is single-member districts.

The solution is letting people vote for more than one candidate. It’s called “approval voting”

That might be one way. In my opinion, a much better way is instant runoff voting (IRV).

The Libertarian Party’s 1980 slogan/song was “It’s Time for a New Beginning.” It was also the name of his campaign book.

Unfortunately, at the 1980 Republican convention, Ronald Reagan announed his campaign slogan: “It’s Time for a New Beginning.” No ackowledgement.