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2011-10-28 Home Front: Politix

"Virtual Third Party" May Jump Into 2012 Prez Contest

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Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-10-28 09:59|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Gack...Thought I had this thing in the right category. Mods, please feel free to move w/ my humble apologies.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-10-28 10:17|| 2011-10-28 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Fixed now.

Posted by Fred 2011-10-28 10:43|| 2011-10-28 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3 ...you mean sorta like Donks who ran as fake Tea Party candidates? It's like they really do believe the only way to power is not by the true consent of the governed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-28 10:45|| 2011-10-28 10:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Several are fans of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has flirted with the idea of running as a third-party centrist.

There's a disaster. No way.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-10-28 11:01|| 2011-10-28 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I think running Bloomberg would be awesome, would so totally beat the rethuglikan plant obama.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-28 12:42|| 2011-10-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 How much is BO paying for this one? The irony is in the 'Blue States' the Donks have made it virtually impossible to run as a third party

Posted by Bigfoot Jeter8554 2011-10-28 13:16|| 2011-10-28 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I've been predicting this since 2010 when the MA Dems did this with Tim Cahill. At that time I figured that the Dems would do this with Hillary or with Evan Bayh or Jim Webb. It didn't occur to me that Bloomberg would be the one but now that he has been mentioned it makes sense as a spoiler.

Bloomberg is precisely the sort of Northeast big-government,nanny-state loving anti-Christian bigot who would sign on to this sort of project.

Posted by no mo uro 2011-10-28 13:44|| 2011-10-28 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Donald Trump has occasionally hinted that he might be open to stepping back into the race he never quite stepped into in the first place...

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-28 14:58|| 2011-10-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#9 The idea is not only to confuse but to give the media another name to lift up and suck air out of the republican nomination. Slanted polls will most likley pin this newcomer as taking votes from the center right hoping to create a self-fullfilling prophecy. I don't think it'll work any more than their attempts to prop up Romney.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-28 21:13|| 2011-10-28 21:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Likely, believer in the three prong theory. First, would be to flood the market (3rd parties and staw candidates), second would be foreign policy scores, third would be dependence.

Why they fail. Education on the first, third is that the government is incompetent so they cannot get it implemented in time...second is debatable. I'm not totally sure the owes movement is part of that plan or an emergency pressure valve/vent going off.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-28 23:26|| 2011-10-28 23:26|| Front Page Top

#11 The idea is not only to confuse but to give the media another name to lift up and suck air out of the republican nomination. Slanted polls will most likely pin this newcomer as taking votes from the center right hoping to create a self-fullfilling prophecy. I don't think it'll work any more than their attempts to prop up Romney.

Wish I could that sanguine about what the bad guys (and yes, you quislingcrat b@$st@rds, I'm talking about you) are planning behind the curtain.

First, there's the media assault on the Trunk presidential field, aka the "debates." I'm still wondering what the hell the RNC is thinking by allowing the MSM to control the debate battlespace at this point. It's turning our side's nomination process into a mud-wrestling match specifically designed to cast the eventual nominee as damaged goods, more easily defeated by Ogabe.

Second, the MSM propaganda mill's just getting warmed up. You think they totally abandoned "objectivity" in '08? You ain't seen nothing yet - for '12, they're going to do the Full Goebbels. Exhibit #1: this bizarre article by Jonathan Alter* on Bloomberg.com: Obamas Miracle Is a Scandal-Free White House. Simply jaw-dropping in its audacious mendacity. Don't read until you've had a couple of glasses of wine - I know it helped me.

*: I think this assclown's a former JournoList member, but I couldn't confirm in my limited research.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-10-28 23:32|| 2011-10-28 23:32|| Front Page Top

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