26 DAYS OUT....3RD PARTY POLL

[kieefer]

Here's your chance to see how a 3rd Party Candidate for President measures up to the challenge of removing the screw-up we have now.

[mikegideon]

Dickie!

[mikegideon]

OK, c'mon folks. Show Dickie some love. Some may think it's impressive that he's currently beating Gary Johnson. But he's gotta beat BHO to make it to the White House

BTW... If you donate $5 or more on Dickie's Myspace page, you'll be registered to win a night of getting kicked out of a bar with Dickie himself. Among other things, he needs fuel for the Bacon Fat Express.

Dickie Weed for President. He's tired of this sh*t!

[mav]

I am still trying to figure out how voting for a third party candidate is the same as voting for Obama especially considering how OhShoot (I will give credit where it is due) rightly pointed out months ago that it really isn't going to matter since Romney will take TN regardless.

I seriously doubt that Romney is going to win TN by a slim margin. Therefore, what difference does it make that a few individuals on this forum are going to vote their conscience and go third party? None, outside of providing fodder for those who like to be obnoxious.

[Lumber_Jack]

I am still trying to figure out how voting for a third party candidate is the same as voting for Obama especially considering how OhShoot (I will give credit where it is due) rightly pointed out months ago that it really isn't going to matter since Romney will take TN regardless.

I seriously doubt that Romney is going to win TN by a slim margin. Therefore, what difference does it make that a few individuals on this forum are going to vote their conscience and go third party? None, outside of providing fodder for those who like to be obnoxious.

I believe this thread is more to the fact that one member was complaining the OhShoots 30 day poll did not include third party candidates. His poll was "who do you think WILL win", so most everyone can agree that a 3rd party candidate has no chance of actually winning.

[mikegideon]

I view this as a joke thread. The third party deal can actually tip the whole election in swing states. So, the "vote your conscience" mentality really can have unintended consequences. I agree that TN is already decided, so might as well have some fun.

Dickie for President. He's tired of this sh#t!

[Lumber_Jack]

I view this as a joke thread. The third party deal can actually tip the whole election in swing states. So, the "vote your conscience" mentality really can have unintended consequences. I agree that TN is already decided, so might as well have some fun.

Dickie for President. He's tired of this sh#t!

oh I voted Dickie Weed btw. cause Im tires of this s#it too!!

[mikegideon]

oh I voted Dickie Weed btw. cause Im tires of this s#it too!!

Dickie knows, and he appreciates you!

[Guest HvyMtl]

Actually, I would have voted Vermin Supreme, had that been a choice... PONIES FOR ALL.

[Garufa]

Is Basil MarceauxDotCom an option?

[mikegideon]

Is Basil MarceauxDotCom an option?

Don't add him now! Dickie isn't even beating Obama, and y'all HATE Obama. I'm fixin' to post up Dickies song, "Baby Gotta Butt (Like a Side of Beef)". That'll win some hearts.

Edited October 8, 2012 by mikegideon

[Guest HvyMtl]

[mikegideon]

Dickie can kick his ass, especially in a drinking contest. Besides, I doubt the guy has the tactical skills to pull off Operation Bacon Fat. Of course, he could probably hire the guys that killed Bin Laden, and just take credit for it.

[Guest HvyMtl]

But, I want a pony! And I want you to pay for it!

[mikegideon]

But, I want a pony! And I want you to pay for it!

If you join Operation Bacon Fat, Dickie will let you have all the ponies you can find. They will smell like bacon. That doesn't bug me.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

A couple weeks ago was looking up old prez election results, national and TN, back thru the 20th century. Ya'll gripe about election spoilers grabbing a percent or two of the vote, but I didn't realize how strong some third parties did, in some states and some elections well into the past. Didn't take close enough notes, but in some of the 1940's thru 1960's elections, third parties got pretty huge percentages compared to the last couple of decades, and most likely "spoiled the heck" out of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon voting cycles.

I didn't realize our dads and grandads were statistically speaking more fond of fringe parties than nowadays. Apparently lots of our dads and grandads were mad as hell and they weren't gonna take it anymore.

In some elections, third parties actually won national electors, which ain't even been the remotest risk in recent decades. I only made sketchy notes of the third-party contenders, ya'll can look it up if curious. The task for that day was simply recording percentages of dems vs republicans national and in TN (over the last 100 years), but some elections had enough votes cast on third parties that the D+R popular vote percentages didn't get anywhere close to the modern usual 99% total.

Dixiecrats were real strong in the 1940's thru the 1950's, and there were other parties that did pretty good in the late 1950's thru 1970's, in some states. Some localities, leftwing and populist parties, and other parties so right-wing they made Goldwater look like the liberal alternative! I ought to read up on details of that history sometime.

In my sparse notes written in the margins of the figures I was jotting down, ferinstance Strom Thurman did remarkably well in 1948, and in 1968 George Wallace and General Curtis LeMay did real well for the American Independent Party in some states even up north. They won 34% of the TN popular vote! Curtis LeMay was so right wing he made Brig. Gen Jack D. Ripper of Dr. Strangelove look like a wussie boy.

Ain't saying that 20th century leftist, populist, or rightwing parties were good or bad, just saying some elections they were getting double-digit percentages of the popular vote in some states. If modern third-party voters ever break 2 percent of the popular vote it would make D and R loyalists have a fit. If third parties got double digits of the popular vote like the mid-20th century, it would make party loyalists crap bushels of cantaloupes! Wonder if people were bitching so loud about Strom Thurman spoiling the election in 1948 or George Wallace spoiling the election in 1968? Maybe so, would be interesting to know.

Edited October 9, 2012 by Lester Weevils

[eapking]

Thank God TN will probably go Romney and 'm still voting for Romney. My vote is just as important as someone in Ohio's. You get enough people staying home or throwing away your vote and you may not be able to look at yourself in the mirror the next day.

If Barry wins again, all who did not vote for Romney share in the collective blame. You're the same people who didn't vote for McCain the last time. So thanks for that - again!

[mikegideon]

I'm voting for Romney. Already told Dickie. I just figure if somebody's gonna vote 3rd party anyway, they might as well vote for somebody I like.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

If Barry wins again, all who did not vote for Romney share in the collective blame. You're the same people who didn't vote for McCain the last time. So thanks for that - again!

Hi eapking

Alternate History is hardly an exact science, but seems to me we would have been even worse off with McCain than we've been with Obama. Granted that Obama totally sucks but a president McCain would have totally sucked squared.

For example, when is the last time McCain had a good idea? He was mister compromise his entire senate career. McCain was mister big gov and mister immigrant amnesty and mister campaign finance reform. Never especially gun-friendly. In the middle of the election he put his campaign on hold to go back to washington and help push thru those stupid bailouts. President McCain would have cooperated more effectively in passing commie legislation with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi than Obama could ever dream of doing. For the last 3.5 years McCain has been bitching that Obama ain't getting us into enough new foreign entanglements and pointless brush wars. So how would McCain have been any better?

[kieefer]

I view this as a joke thread. The third party deal can actually tip the whole election in swing states. So, the "vote your conscience" mentality really can have unintended consequences. I agree that TN is already decided, so might as well have some fun.

Dickie for President. He's tired of this sh#t!

A joke is exactly why I posted it.

Folks need to lighten up.

I you're not decided by now chances are you have problems making decisions anyway.

It's a no brainer for me, screw your conscious, it's politics, this election is about saving the country that we grew up believing in.

Trying to save it because your man has a "new vision" or the "only one" or "Romney is no different" is BS. The bottom line is that BHO must be removed and as many of his followers as possible. Romney is the only viable option since the majority of the primary voters voted that way. I assure you, you can live with that decision.

So,

If you want obamacare, vote for someone other than R&R.

If you want more taxes, vote for someone other than R&R.

If you want a more liberal SC, vote for someone other than R&R.

If you want more regulations that stifle new business and hiring, vote for someone other than R&R.

I you want to fundamentally change America as we know it, vote for someone other that R&R.

If you want more tyranny, vote for someone other than R&R.

Clearly, if you want more of the same, vote for someone other than R&R.

It's that simple.

BTW, I didn't realize Dickie Weed was so ugly, but I like his message.

[eapking]

Hi eapking

Alternate History is hardly an exact science, but seems to me we would have been even worse off with McCain than we've been with Obama. Granted that Obama totally sucks but a president McCain would have totally sucked squared.

For example, when is the last time McCain had a good idea? He was mister compromise his entire senate career. McCain was mister big gov and mister immigrant amnesty and mister campaign finance reform. Never especially gun-friendly. In the middle of the election he put his campaign on hold to go back to washington and help push thru those stupid bailouts. President McCain would have cooperated more effectively in passing commie legislation with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi than Obama could ever dream of doing. For the last 3.5 years McCain has been bitching that Obama ain't getting us into enough new foreign entanglements and pointless brush wars. So how would McCain have been any better?

Well this is total speculation on what McCain would have done. I know what Obama has done. He has fulfilled all my fears from back in '08. I was no McCain fan then and I'm no Romney fan this time either. I simply want Obama out and Romney is the only one with a decent chance to do so. I sincerely doubt McCain nor Romney would have been or will be equal to or worse than Obama. Would McCain have nominated those two ultra-liberals to the SCOTUS? Really? Please.

Edited October 12, 2012 by eapking