Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chair, predicts in his memoir that the current ideological divide separating conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats leaves a “vast untended center from which a well-financed independent presidential candidate is likely to emerge” in either 2008 or 2012.
That would be a good thing. A lot of people have had enough of the idealogues and extreme negative politics.
I’m hoping its John McCain after he fails to get the Republican nomination.
John McCain is the worst of both worlds. He is against campain free speach (campiagn finance “reform”) which has to be bad news for all third parties.
Journalist Lou (CNN) Dobbs as 2008 vice president on a ticket headed by Bloomberg or Trump…..in a race with out an 1980 (Carter), 1992 (Bush 41), and 1996 (Clinton) incombant…….
I know that is right. I saw this in the Independent Candidate for U S Representative Ballot Access Signature Petition phase of the Congressional Campaign last Spring, Summer and Fall. Many, many people,of the 5,447, said, as they signed my Petition,they have been voting Republican or Democratic or are Independent and have never voted but “I will now vote for you Mr. Layfield” in the, 7 November 06, General Election in Alabama’s Third Congressional District. Layfieldforcongress.com