Discussion: Third Parties, The GREEN Party, The LIBERTARIAN Party, and Other Third Parties

[squeekness]

Lost my vote, Cornell. Ewww.... Did they drug you? I thought you were a Progressive?

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - No Labels found an acceptable fascist Republican candidate
The group is indicating that they’ll back off their threat to run a third-party candidate in 2024 if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis emerges as the Republican nominee.

 

[squeekness]

Daily Kos - No Labels found an acceptable fascist Republican candidate
The group is indicating that they’ll back off their threat to run a third-party candidate in 2024 if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis emerges as the Republican nominee.

Still not going to vote for him. Eww.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pro-Putin Stein still at it with this guy to try to get Trump/R Candidate elected via deliberate spoiler.

Bloomberg News - Jill Stein, 2016 Green Candidate, Now Running Cornel West’s Bid

NBC News - Guess who came to dinner with Flynn and Putin [it's Michael Flynn and Green Party candidate Jill Stein] (2015)

NBC News - Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump, reports say (2018)

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

AZ Central - No Labels Party in Arizona is actually a scam

Big Corporate and big polluter sock puppet Manchin's (D) run for the WV Senate is going so well (poorly against Justice (R)) he's thinking about helping the Republicans win the presidency in 2024 as his next act of sabotage.

NBC News - Joe Manchin and Jon Huntsman flirt with third-party [No Labels] 2024 ticket in New Hampshire

 

[squeekness]

Manchin needs to be tossed in the trash.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Also: a 'party' that doesn't elect candidates at the local, state, and federal level outside of the presidency isn't a party but a scam spoiler organization.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Daily Beast - Kyrsten Sinema Is Still Paying Tulsi Gabbard's Sister a Fortune for Security

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

ABC News - Green Party candidate Cornel West owes more than half a million dollars in taxes and child support: Records
One expert said, "Voters have a right to know why this isn't disclosed."

The Daily Beast - Cornel West Admits to Massive Tax Debt

Politico - [Sen.] Sanders [VT-I] hits at Cornel West over criticism of Biden

Politico - No Labels to hold nominating convention in April, Joe Lieberman says

Daily Kos - Sunday Four-Play: Kos was on 'Meet the Press'! Also, debate fallout and mug shot mania



Daily Kos - There is no place for No Labels this presidential cycle by Markos Moulitsas
So why engage in such a futile endeavor? One obvious reason is to use the high-profile nature of the campaign to bring attention to one’s pet issues. This is why Ralph Nader or Cornel West might throw their hat in the ring: Their need to promote themselves and their causes trumps any negative consequences of their quixotic campaigns. In the case of Nader, he played spoiler and we got George W. Bush and an endless war. We could have had a climate champion instead in Al Gore.

But let’s be clear: No Labels is not that. The fledgling “political party” doesn't have a message to sell. Their name literally says, “We stand for nothing.” Theirs is a more cynical pursuit: a bunch of washed-up, loser politicians grifting conservative billionaires out of millions, using ridiculous and easily refuted arguments to line their pockets and pretend to retain some semblance of relevance. This was all clear as I faced off with No Labels Co-chair Pat McCrory, the transphobic former governor of North Carolina, this past weekend on “Meet the Press.”

 

[squeekness]

A third party could win. If they have a candidate worth voting for.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[squeekness]

Changing parties is not going to polish this turd, lol.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

But he could peel off voters from the GOP.

 

[squeekness]

But he could peel off voters from the GOP.

That would be fine, I just don't see him winning anything, lol.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will run for president as an independent and drop his Democratic primary bid

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he's declaring his independence from the Democratic Party and all other political parties as he announces he'll run for president as an independent.

apnews.com

 

[squeekness]

Good luck with that, buddy.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

I can't stand him, but the more rightwing conspiracists and old people he keeps from voting Republican the better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/09/republican-leaders-attack-robert-kennedy-jr-independent-campaign-announcement/

Robert F Kennedy Jr announced as speaker at hard-right CPAC event

Kennedy is set next week to transform his Democratic presidential run into an independent campaign

www.theguardian.com

Oh my

 

[Teelie]

He could be the third party spoiler the country needs.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

So Republicans are going to try to convince anti-establishment conspiracy theorist to listen to them and not vote for Kennedy?

Good luck with that.

 

[Sithborg]

Gotta love how the right wingers propping him up are suddenly realizing he is a problem for them.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Republican blowback against RFK Jr.’s independent presidential bid reveals party that fears him most

In case anyone wondered whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr's independent candidacy for president would be a bigger threat to Republicans or Democrats, they can stop. Republicans are freaking out after Kennedy's announcement Monday that he would make an...

www.dailykos.com

Sean Hannity ambushes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with Trump campaign talking points after months of fawning coverage on Fox News

When anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his presidential run in April 2023, Fox News hosts and personalities hyped the Democratic candidate in hopes that he would siphon votes from Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. On October 9, Kennedy announced that he would run as...

www.mediamatters.org

 

[squeekness]

Republican blowback against RFK Jr.’s independent presidential bid reveals party that fears him most

In case anyone wondered whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr's independent candidacy for president would be a bigger threat to Republicans or Democrats, they can stop. Republicans are freaking out after Kennedy's announcement Monday that he would make an...

www.dailykos.com

Sean Hannity ambushes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with Trump campaign talking points after months of fawning coverage on Fox News

When anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his presidential run in April 2023, Fox News hosts and personalities hyped the Democratic candidate in hopes that he would siphon votes from Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. On October 9, Kennedy announced that he would run as...

www.mediamatters.org

I hope he helps Trump lose!

 

[Sithborg]

They really wanted to make him a new Bernie.