Phil Sawyer responds:

With all due respect to the many liberals who are actually fiscally conservative, hasn’t the GOP already moved “middle-left” – with all the billions of debt racked up under the Bush-Cheney Administration? Furthermore, isn’t the Republican Party already “hard-right on social issues”?

Phil Sawyer responds:

Don, did you not mean to write “to little avail and much travail”? As a Left Conservative, in the tradition of the late, great, Norman Mailer; I am willing to sit down and discuss politics in a civil manner with most people. Not people who advocate racism, sexism, violence and that sort of thing, though. Nor Republicans, either. The Republican Party is now completely worthless and any person who is still a member of that party (after eight years of the Bush-Cheney Administration wreaking havoc on our country) should be ashamed of himself or herself.

I think all the AIP members should join the Green Party. I think Global Warming MUST be dealt with now. I think the Green Party is the only political aparatus available to help us deal with it. While I accept that not everyone has this view, I believe the intention of the Green Party should be to make it so that everyone has this view. Why be politically active if you’re going to join a party that doesn’t support your views? At a certain point stating your position is more important than winning votes.

Don Lake: The point is that the Establishment Duopoly is so evil that it over shadows any intra opposition squabbling and nit picking. For years I tried to get the left of center types to except and even out reach to their more conservative anti war allies to little travail.

Phil Sawyer responds:

It is not very likely to happen but it should not be ruled out if the “top-two” bill passes and those parties lose their ballot status. The point would be to take over the party machinery and “make over” the party into something new, leftist, and relevant.

Tom McLaughlin Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 am
Phil:

In PA we did not nominate anyone for statewide office in 2008. No one inspired the troops enough to put forth the effort to collect the necessary signatures. Nader would have but he went independent in PA. We did officially endorse Marakay Rogers – Libertarian for State Attorney General. You can not cross nominate in PA.

Phil Sawyer replies:

Thank you for the very interesting information, Tom.

In PA we did not nominate anyone for statewide office in 2008. No one inspired the troops enough to put forth the effort to collect the necessary signatures. Nader would have but he went independent in PA. We did officially endorse Marakay Rogers – Libertarian for State Attorney General. You can not cross nominate in PA.