Re: OT: McCain and Obama off Texas Ballot

On Sep 18 2008 1:49 PM, Lute wrote:

Sep 18, 3:30 pm, croupe <crou...@xxxxxxxxx> linked to:

[Excerpt from the linked site] ?The Libertarian Party like other
parties and independent candidates always face a struggle to get on
the ballot and are sometimes excluded from the ballot for the most
minor of details,? said state party chairman Patrick Dixon. ?We may
not like the rules, but we have to play by them.? [End excerpt]

As someone who was actively seeking to vote 3rd Party (until Palin), I
have been angered every 4 years over the way 3rd parties are treated.

They are routinely excluded from debates on the flimsiest basis. The
catch-22 is that you can't get access to the debates if you are a
minority party, and you can't become a larger party because you can't
get access to a public forum available only to the 2 large parties.

I was told a few weeks ago that a vote for a 3rd party is a wasted
vote. But it's only a wasted vote because everybody else seems to
fall for that line. Another catch-22.

By the way, the Libertarian Party is no longer libertarian, and they
won't get my vote. However, I urge anyone who is dissatisfied with
both major parties, to find, and vote for, the minority party that
most closely aligns with your political philosophy.

I might even write in "Palin for President."

If enough people did that, that would really screw things up.

What most people want to do is unscrew up everything after eight years of
Republicains.

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