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If Romney wins the nomination it will set up the Perfect Political Storm for the Democrats to run a 3rd Party "conservative" to siphon enough votes to let Obama win. Romney is so detestable to so many conservative and so similar to Obama on so many issues that for many there's no compelling reason to vote for him. Also, Obama and the Democrats have more then enough of a war chest as well as a complacent media to make a 3rd party run look worthwhile as well as feasible to the massive number of disenfranchised conservatives who reject Romney. With...

The Constitution Party of Wyoming announced Wednesday that it has submitted enough petition signatures to become the state’s fifth recognized political party. It’s the most political parties Wyoming has had in more than a decade. Analysts say the number reflects voter discontent, but it is unlikely to make a significant impact on Wyoming elections, at least in the near future. Founded in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, the Constitution Party is one of the top three minor parties in the United States. The party’s stated goals include restoring the Founding Fathers’ vision of a limited federal government based on...

Are there any conservative third party candidates of note this go around? I don't vote for progressives, and that includes Romney. So tell me about your candidates.

AE has reportedly raised more than $22 million so far and has already been certified to be placed on the ballot in 12 states now, including California. To getting on state ballots, AE evidenced mass organizing skills. The group says it collected over 2 million signatures nationwide in its effort to get on state ballots. KleinOnline found that two of AE’s board members, Kellen Arno and Michael Arno, were paid by the group for helping to run the massive signature gathering drive via their firm, Arno Political Consultants. Michael Arno is senior adviser to the Podesta Group lobbying and public...

The potential for a third party presidential run from billionaire developer and reality TV star Donald Trump may be closer to becoming a reality show of its own. The Blaze received a copy of a confidential email sent out late Thursday afternoon from a Florida Tea Party leader and personal friend of Trump. The email requested assistance in building a team in Texas to make certain that, if Trump chooses to run, his name would be on the ballot. The email included:

Ron Paul is the wild card in the Republican presidential deck—and that makes him one of the most important cards of all right now. ....If Mr. Paul does well in Iowa, he could so muddy the waters that there is no clear winner. An inconclusive outcome would be a boon for Mr. Romney, who hasn't done all that well in Iowa, and who is counting much more heavily on winning the New Hampshire primary a week later. A murky Iowa result would reduce any momentum the upstart Mr. Gingrich might enjoy heading into New Hampshire. New Hampshire, in turn, is...

Independent runs by Ron Paul or Sarah Palin could cripple the GOP — but they're unlikely. A presidential bid by Michael Bloomberg, on the other hand... The first votes have not yet been cast in the Republican primaries, and we're already beginning to hear talk of independent runs for the presidency. In part, that springs from a sense of dissatisfaction — or at least surprise — with the way the primary field has performed this year, and with the candidates who appear to have risen to the top. Few would have guessed that after the surprising Tea Party triumph in...

Ron Paul with Sean Hannity discussing the economy and the election. Paul talks about the lack of attention he receives, if he is not ignored altogether. Paul says he and his staff were "annoyed" by the fact that he only received 89 seconds to speak at the last Republican debate. Paul warned his Republican colleagues in the Congress that they better keep their pledge to not raise taxes. He says if they do "capitulate" on taxes then people will make them pay. "I have no intention of doing that," Paul says of a third-party run if he doesn't get the...

Panelists Predict Third Party in 2012 Presidential Election By Dillon van Auken, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 Harvard Institute of Politics holds a forum called “Campaign 2012: How Americans Will Select Their Next President,” which focus on the possiblity of a third party option in the upcoming presidential election. A third party candidate might have a much better shot at winning the 2012 presidential election than most citizens believe, experts in campaign media and communications said at the Institute of Politics on Monday. The speakers identified Americans’ growing discontent with Washington partisanship and gridlock in Congress as factors...

I am running for the 2012 Presidential election as a 3rd Party Candidate to defeat the current administration in 2012. 3rd Party Candidate (Democrat)

President Obama and his Republican opponent may have some tough competition from a third party in 2012. A nonpartisan group says it’s gathered millions of signatures along with millions of dollars from voters unhappy with Washington. The group, called Americans Elect, is creating an internet-based third party where voters will choose someone to run in next year’s election. So far, the site has more than 1.9 million signatures and raised almost $22 million.

A fellow tea-party candidate and Alaskan politician who drew Sarah Palin's endorsement in 2010 says it's not "out of the realm of possibility" that the former governor might still run for president in 2012 … as an independent. Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller evaluated the chances Palin might run in a conversation with Aaron Klein during the host's "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" program on New York City's WABC Radio. When asked if Palin, who announced she would not seek the Republican nomination for president, might consider running as an independent, Miller replied, "You know, I think it's unlikely....

I don't have cable, so I do watch PBS Newshour as it is less annoying than the other network water carriers...tonight, Elliott Ackerman, COO of "America Elects" was on...he had a Clinton talking head with him,and they both love the internet-based method of putting another candidate selected by all 50 states on the ballot in each state...hmmm...not sure if he's a liberal, that is Ackerman, but it sure sounds like a way to undermine the electoral process with the end goal being to elect the president by popular vote...hmmm...so big cities will be the only ones who elect them because...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Hello, Dave. Great to have you with us on the program, sir. Hello. CALLER: Rush, we have fought the good fight. The Speaker has fought the good fight. We have concessions. There will be no taxes in this agreement. We have two options, Rush. We have the Speaker's plan, or Reid's plan. Rush, you said many times, we live in Realville. This is Realville, Rush. We have two plans, the Speaker's or Senator Reid's plan. The Speaker's plan is way better for us than Senator Reid's plan will ever be. RUSH: Senator Reid's plan...

House Republicans are looking to repeal the healthcare reform law and replace it with one of their own early next year without interrupting two popular parts the administration has already begun to implement. They include a mandate that bars discrimination of pre-existing conditions and a stipulation that allows young people to remain on their parents' insurance plans until age 26. Incoming Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that they would do this by passing a GOP healthcare bill at the same time as repeal efforts are underway. Speaking to more than 100 students at American University, Cantor said,...

Palin: "This is the GOP last shot, it's their last chance....we will lost faith and be disappointed, we will be disenchanted if they start straying from the bed rock principles that can help grow our economy. If they start straying, then why not a third party....that's what people will start asking Link to Video:

According to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting, the NRSC staff urged Murkowski's campaign to use the more than $2 million she had in the bank to start attacking Miller and define him before he did the same to her. As recently as two months ago, Murkowski and her campaign team reassured National Republican Senatorial Committee officials that she was on track to win the primary. The incumbent had more than $1.8 million in the bank as of two weeks before the primary—more than 21 times the $84,000 that Miller reported at the same time.

U.S. Senate hopeful Scott Ashjian will avoid being arrested on felony charges of theft and writing bad checks after he paid $5,575 to cover a bounced check and court fees. The Tea Party of Nevada candidate told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday that his campaign would release a statement regarding all of his legal woes today . "The bottom line is, I did pay money on a stop payment check, it wasn't an insufficient funds claim like (the complaint that) was issued," Ashjian said. "At the end of the day, the facts will come out." Chief Deputy District Attorney...

As everyone expected, Rush Limbaugh held onto his number one spot in this year's "Heavy Hundred." This annual list by Talkers magazine rates the most popular and influential hosts on talk radio, and as usual, the list is dominated by conservatives. Contrary to some dire predictions, it seems that having a Democrat in the White House has in fact energized talk radio. The New York Daily News notes that "even the two advice talkers in the top 10 – Dr. Laura Schlessinger at No. 5 and Dave Ramsey at No. 7 – don't care much for Obama's policies." Glenn...

Do the Math – Stay Home and 3rd Party Voters did NOT put Obama in the White House 2004   2008   Total votes cast 122,267,553 Total votes cast 131,257,328 George Bush    62,040,610 Barack Obama 69,029,444 John F. Kerry 59,028,444 John McCain    59,934,814 3rd Party 1,186,482 3rd Party 1,845,892 Nuts* 538,761 Nuts* 920,965 3rd Party – Nuts* 647,721 3rd Party – Nuts* 924,927 Nuts* - Ralph Nader, Green Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Party for Socialism and Liberty Obama – McCain         9,522,083 Bush – McCain            2,105,796             Let’s look at that 3rd party straw man. There was a...

Less than four years ago, U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz was huddled in his war room at Schuler's pub in Marshall awaiting the results of his GOP primary election against Tim Walberg. ...... Schwarz went on to lose that 2006 race and returned to practicing medicine in Battle Creek. But after spending three decades in public service, he never gave up the ghost and served on a host of blue ribbon panels, including the Pentagon-appointed commission investigating the conditions at Walter Reed. Now he's flirting with running for governor again after an unsuccessful campaign in 2002. This time, he would run...

There is a specter haunting America: the specter of a saner, updated version of Ross Perot. He is lurking out there, ready to ride the free-floating anger and distrust of Washington. He is out there now in one of his homes or private jets, getting madder by the day. He is large of ego, full of money and cranky in mien. When he enters the arena, he’ll say that Washingtonians, all of them, are a bunch of failures. Over the past five years, Washington has tried to reform Social Security, immigration, health care and energy policy. All of these efforts...

The Obamanation is steamrolling over the American people, the US Constitution, freedom and liberty and the momentum is clearly on their side at the moment. Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals have already proven to be extremely effective when used by very extreme people on a do-or-die quest for extreme central powers... In my opinion, the momentum is so much on their side, that there is quite literally NO means of stopping them. If you step in their way, you will simply get run over. This does NOT mean that there is nothing you can do, however. Hundreds of emails and...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning Republicans and Democrats of a possible third-party mutiny in 2012 because of all the socialism being advanced by the White House and Congress. Who's he kidding? The major political parties have a death grip on the electoral process, but for insurance, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. John Larson, D-1st District (Ct), have submitted bills to create a full-blown, taxpayer-funded, campaign-finance machine created for and controlled by the incumbents. Their proposals in principle are identical to the one Connecticut lawmakers enacted that has made it toughest on third-party candidates to qualify for campaign...

POINT LOOKOUT, Mo. -- Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said President Obama and the Democratic Congress are creating the most radical, left-wing government in American history. He made the comments in a question and answer session with College of the Ozarks students Tuesday afternoon. Gingrich's talk wasn't all red-meat criticism of the party in power. He did offer some of his own ideas. But in his speech, the former Speaker painted a bleak picture because of bailouts, runaway spending and an overly activist government. "Every young American ought to be calculating what this administration's going to cost them...

I am not now nor never have been a Ron Paul supporter, just to qualify my sentiments here about this story (VIDEO), however, be that as it may, this filmed experience had by an extremely well behaved, clean-cut Ron Paul supporter at the St. Louis airport should give every American citizen pause. Please watch the whole video, start to finish. Man detained and harassed at air... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDv_fWMfnN0&feature=channel_page All of us can usually if not routinely understand the trials and tribulations encountered by armed guards at airports but this incident tests the fringes of human understanding as to reasonable, acceptable and...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Highway Patrol this week retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies. The Highway Patrol also will open an investigation into the origin of the report, which linked conservative groups with domestic terrorism and named former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin.....

BUT THE GOVERNMENT MEDIA COMPLEX, THE BUSH OBAMA CROWD, SEEMS TO BE JUST FINE WITH THE IDEA OF SENDING YOU UP THE RIVER IF YOU SUPPORT A 3RD PARTY.

Should Bush/Cheney, Others Be Prosecuted If Evidence They Committed War Crimes, Domestic Crimes? Yes! Where Are Christian/Conservative Leaders On This Issue? If there is evidence that Bush Administration officials - including the President and the Vice President - were involved in war crimes, or domestic crimes here at home, should they be prosecuted? The obvious answer is: Of course! Yes! And there does appear to be such evidence. The following interview excerpts touch on this subject. The first excerpt is from Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC “Count Down” program (12/16/08). His guest is Jonathan Turley who teaches Constitutional Law at Georgetown University....

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. -- Alexander Fraser Tytler 18th century Historian and Jurist It is the view of most Americans today, that as long as all legislation in a country is democratically established by a majority vote of the people,...

Short Streaming Video of VP Sarah Palin recently supporting an independent Third Party (conservative) in Alaska, welcoming the Party and sharing their ideas, also supporting independent parties' to challenge the two established parties.The Party welcomed here on this video did in fact go on to have a successful convention, as Mrs. Palin urged them, and ultimately officially endorsed and affiliated with conservative CHUCK BALDWIN (on the national ticket for Constitution Party) for President of the United States in 2008.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll has shown a very close race between John McCain and Barack Obama. For most of the past week, they have been essentially tied with typically 4% of voters saying they prefer some other candidate and a similar number remaining undecided. A separate survey found slightly different results when third-party candidates were mentioned by name. In a four-way race, Obama earns 42% of the vote, McCain 38%, Bob Barr 6% and Ralph Nader 4%. Given those options, 11% were undecided. Barr and Nader were mentioned as candidates of the Libertarian Party and the Green...

Who is Bob Barr? Just heard on Fox News he might be running as a 3rd party candidate (libertarian). I am posting this thread because I don't know anything about him and am wondering if anyone else does.

Click Your Pick If you are a Republican, are you considering voting for the Democrat in the presidential race, or, if you are a Democrat, are you considering voting for the Republican? Yes. I'm considering crossing over. 28.7% No. I'm loyal to the end. 36.8% Not sure who I'm considering yet. 25.5% I'm considering a third-party candidate. 9.1% Total votes: 1387

Like a cranky older child demanding the attention of his parents doting over their newer infant, the threat of some conservative leaders to seceed from the Republican Party is, at this point, more bombast than susbtance. Sources close to the evangelical leaders on the call are plain: the talk "was an attempt to signal that Giuliani is unacceptable," one of them says. The thinking inside social conservative circles this morning is that their leaders' desire to defer to James Dobson -- still the movement's cappo di tutti cappi -- led them to make a tactical blunder. Threatening Giuliani is not...

Former Vice President Al Gore is acting in a very "Nixonian" way, a top political expert says. Appearing Thursday night on CNN's "Glenn Beck" show, savvy Republican political pro Roger Stone told guest host Michael Smerconish that Gore carefully parses his words when he ducks the question about running for the presidency. "He's preserving his political options: 'I'm not planning to run; I have no plans to run; it is highly unlikely that I would run,'" Stone said. "Nowhere does he say, 'if nominated I won't run; if elected I won't serve.' And I don't think he's going to say...

Republicans, while expressing some concern, generally think they have less to fear than Democrats from Michael R. Bloomberg if the popular New York City mayor mounts a third-party candidacy for president. The Washington Times reported yesterday that friends of Mr. Bloomberg, whose personal fortune is $5.5 billion, has "set aside" and is prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own money for a independent run for the White House. [Snip] [Friends] say a Bloomberg candidacy would make it difficult for the Democratic nominee to win the electoral votes of New York, as well as of Connecticut and New...

I stood in disbelief most of this year at the arrogant display of the Rebublicans regarding issues that the conservative base cares about. We now are led by our utter enemies. We literally cut our nose off to spite our face. A strong, consevative leader needs to stand up and fill this void with a new direction, a new Party that actually stands for something other than capturing and retaining power. The Republicans may have just successfully destroyed our way of life by chasing their own selfish, haughty desires.

Greetings, fellow South Park Conservatives. I have been seriously considering our options as a legitimate and viable political party. The other parties, well, we just don't fit in with them. Dems: Self explanatory. Socialist weasels that go against the very grain of everything we believe in. Repubs: Ever-moving to the left. Currently outspending the most liberal of Democrats on everything except defending our borders, which is what their (the Federal Government's) job is supposed to be. They also want to legislate morality and tell us what we can and can't do/watch/say here in this "free" country. They are also just...

CONSTITUTION PARTY GAINS STRENGTH WITH PEROUTKA/BALDWIN TICKET - The Constitution Party was the only alternative party that increased it's vote totals this year compared to the 2000 election! Constitution Party members have cause to celebrate! Their 2004 presidential ticket – Michael A. Peroutka for President and Dr. Chuck Baldwin for Vice President – received 30% more votes this year than in the previous election! Nationally, the Peroutka-Baldwin ticket received 132,067 votes compared to 101,278 for the Constitution Party’s 2000 candidate, Howard Phillips. The increase in Peroutka's tally is particularly significant when compared to the decline in voter support for other...

In this brave new world of global terrorism, the issue of reliable border control has acquired a new urgency. Yet there are also well-founded concerns that in the effort to keep out malefactors we will sacrifice so many of our liberties and alienate so many people around the world that the terrorists, to use a well-worn phrase, will indeed have won. The debate on safety vs. privacy, particularly in airline travel, has been raging for years, ever since the airports first installed metal detectors and luggage screening. Today, this controversy focuses on biometric screening at borders—digital photos, fingerprinting, and iris...