CNN on October 2 ran a short segment titled, “Time Ripe for Third Party?”, triggered by media interest in Rick Nagin’s run-off for a city council set in Cleveland. Nagin associates himself with the Democratic Party but is also a member of the Communist Party and a reporter for the party’s newspaper. The election is November 3, 2009. The segment also features Bob Barr, and refers to strong independent gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Thanks to Jared Cowing for the link.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Actually, it has been “Time Ripe for Third Party” since the Democratic Party railroaded the McCarthy and McGovern forces in Chicago, 1968.
How ironic, now that our country has the very best president in history, President Barack Obama; the bourgeois, establishment, news media is waking up. The coffee that they are smelling is not the fragance of “Third Party,” though. The scent that the breeze is blowing is, actually, from the birth of a new Second Party – which will replace the Republican Party by the year of 2012. It probably will be called the Progressive Party.
[Flawed] Teddy Roosevelt as icon ????? Bull Moose [Centennial in 2012 ….] as partisan symbol ?????
——- Don Lake, soooooooooo disappointed in 2008
Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette, and Henry Wallace are are part of the rich heritage. The new Progressive Party will, of course, map its own direction. The Bull Moose will always be a perfect symbol; hopefull, it will be chosen.
Regarding 2008, my feelings are just the opposite of yours, Don. Even though I voted for the Nader-Gonzalez ticket (and would do so again), I am very happy about how it turned out. There were some areas where I was more in agreement with the Obama-Biden slate and I was always very sympathetic to it. The bottom line, on issues, is that I have my own opinions and I do not agree with any candidate on every single thing. That is not the point.
President Barack Obama, I predict, will go down in history as our nation’s greates president.
In paragraph one, above, I meant to write “hopefully” – “hopefull.”
In addition, I should have included the honorable Ross Perot in the “rich heritage” of the Progressive Party – even though his Party was called Reform, not Progressive. The main thrust was the same: to stand up against the corruption up the two large parties and make progressive changes in order to help the people of our country.