Posted on 09/05/2022 2:34:43 PM PDT by TBP
The Federalist has this article by Victoria Marshall, detailing Democratic Party efforts from 2004 through the present to prevent voters from voting for parties or candidates to the left of the Democratic Party. The story says nothing about the period 1936-1980. Democrats tried to keep the 1936 Union Party off the ballot in Pennsylvania; to keep the Progressive Party off the ballot in 1948 in Illinois; to keep independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy off the ballot in New York in 1976; and to keep independent presidential candidate John Anderson off the ballot in 1980 in Massachusetts and North Carolina. By contrast, Republicans did not take action to keep minor party or independent presidential candidates off the ballot in any state until 2008, when the Republican Party tried to keep Libertarian nominee Bob Barr off the Pennsylvania ballot.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate
“Republicans just don’t “play the game.”
Yep, the Democrats are FAR BETTER at forcing all left-leaning voters to vote for them - Republicans actually TOLERATE Libertarians being on the ballot...even though the ONLY REASON for having Libertarians there is to depress Republican voting totals, particularly when a MAGA candidate runs.
Perhaps it’s time Republicans start to PLAY BALL.
The Democrat Party is serious in its intent to establish One Party Rule.
It will keep heading farther and farther left along the way.
The DemocRATS almost certainly SUPPORT getting Losertarians on the ballot at all levels.
If you don’t play by the rules they enacted and force them to live up to them also, you will never win
Thank goodness for that, otherwise, we would only get more RINOs from which to choose from.
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