Hello Again… It’s Monday and a whole week ahead of us. Use it well.
In the game of billiards they call it a three cushion shot – aiming at one target in order, really, to hit another. In politics it’s called “The spoiler.” Probably the most recent one to carry that title in the Presidential campaign is either Ross Perot or Ralph Nader. One got us Bill Clinton. In any case Ron Paul, Bob Barr, possibly some I’ve not recognized are currently in the running. Strom Thurmond’s 1948 campaign he maintained till the end was not as a spoiler but as a candidate. He often told anyone who would listen a shift of a few thousand votes would have sent the vote into the House of Representatives where the result could have been quite different.
Ah well… the “what might have been’s” of history are most famously recorded in the Poem “Maud Muller” – but not in the history books. We are seldom confident of entirely ruling them out but third parties in American politics are rather notoriously famous for failure. Anyway it’s an interesting conversation if anyone know much about it. Trouble is – most of us don’t and usually show it. But that’s part of living in a free country – and participatory politics.
Thanks for dropping by.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
I DIDN’T GET THE NAME?
Just a Minute – Recognize these -- Teddy Roosevelt, John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader? They’re all third party candidates in the 20th Century. They didn’t win – and other people lost.
More often than not they were working the same game I did in Wasena Elementary’s third grade. The male party was outnumbered by the girl party until I got the bright idea to nominate a second girl to run. The guys were angry with me -- nominating a girl! Then – they got it – we won.
Republican Norm Coleman, winding up his first Senate term in
The folks in Bob Barr’s home state of Georgia aren’t really planning to attend their former Congressman’s inauguration in January – but they may get some consolation tickets to the Obama swearing in if Barr’s Libertarian campaign manages to siphon off enough McCain votes.
It’s a tough world out there – full of unintended consequences.
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