"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Which is why we
desperately need a third party in this country.

We have a bunch of them; Libertarians (very fiscally conservative, and
they
got 1/20th the votes of the very UNFISCALLY CONSERVATIVE...), Green
party,
Perotista's, Buchannenits,

I'm talking a main-stream party.

If Americans were so inclined, I think there already would be a good third
party.

For some bizarre reason, known only to
them, 3rd Party Candidates all seem to be from the lunatic fringe.

(Who you callin' a lunatic?? :~o )

Right about now, I think we'd do good to have TWO parties...the Republicrats
and someone else.


WHY can't we get someone like Elizabeth Dole to run as a "Whig" (or
whatever
you want to call them), on a fiscally conservative, socially
middle-of-the-road platform?

Ol' Helmet Hair? What makes you think shes fiscally conservative?


Instead we get the Ross Perots and Ralph Naders of the world.
Well-meaning
fringe candidates without a hope or a clue.

Hey...Perot got, what, 12% of the vote? Nader got , what, 5 or 7%?

In case you haven't noticed, Jefferson and Madison are considered lunatic
fringe by large sectors of the populace, but Karl Marx isn't.

We won't get a fiscally conservative legislative or executive branches until
we have a fiscally conservative POPULACE. Just like government, average
people like to spend other peoples money.