David Brooks of the New York Times writes that an independent presidential candidate, or the candidate of a new party, ought to run for president in 2020 on a platform of decreasing the power of the federal government and boosting the power of state and especially regional government. Thanks to Jim Hedges for the link.
DB IS A MASTER ENEMY AGENT OF DEMOCRACY —
THE ALLEGED PREZ INDEPENDENT IS AN OBVIOUS DIVIDE AND CONQUER MACHINATION TO ELECT A SUPER LEFTWING DONKEY/COMMUNIST PREZ IN 2020 —
SEE 1992 CLINTON WITH 43 PCT OF THE POPULAR VOTES DUE TO THE EGO FREAK PEROT.
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PR AND APPV
At best, Ross Perot cost Bush the Elder about 500,000 votes. Bill Clinton won by over 4 million votes.
Has he heard of the Libertarian Party?
Elite political reporters and analysts tend to live in either the suburbs of Washington, DC, or New York city or its suburbs.
Although the Libertarian Party is ballot-qualified across the country, to the extent that it isn’t ballot-qualified, it just happens not to be ballot-qualified in those elite areas. The LP has never been a qualified party in New York nor New Jersey nor Virginia, and its qualified status in DC and Maryland has been on-off instead of steady. In my opinion the Libertarian Party ought to sue Virginia over its definition of “party”. Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the only states in which only the Dems and Reps have been qualified parties at any time in the last 20 years. And it’s easier to make the case against Virginia, because by denying party status to the LP, that forces it to constantly complete onerous petitions for each nominee, and also keeps its nominees off the top lines on the ballot.
‘…decreasing the power of the federal government and boosting the power of state and especially regional government.’
If there is too much government power as Mr. Brooks implies shifting that excessive power to the local level is not the solution. If the oppression comes from afar or from some local entity, it is still oppression.
It’s like saying ‘International drug gangs have too much power so lets give the local gangs more power.’ No thanks.
CP —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1992
— like a thousand years ago.
About 20 (repeat 20) percent of popular votes [about 20.2 million) NOT for Clinton or Bush I – mostly for Perot.
Once again, the siren song of the Independent candidate for president. It’s been there since Eugene McCarthy in 1976.
The National Constitution Party favors having the Federal government ONLY perform its Article 1 enumerated powers. Once the states realize how much State/Local taxes would need to increase for them to continue the other activities that the Federal Government has been doing, I suspect that their enthusiasm to continue many of those programs would vaporize. At least, state and/or local governments would cost less for those programs they DO choose to continue. We would no longer have the Federal Government taking out its very, large middle-man fee.