http://jhbutcher.com The meandering mind of Jonathan at jhbutcher.com Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:10:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://jhbutcher.com/2008/09/02/third-parties-does-anybody-care/ http://jhbutcher.com/2008/09/02/third-parties-does-anybody-care/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:35:39 +0000 jhbutcher http://jhbutcher.com/blog/2008/09/02/third-parties-does-anybody-care/ Continue reading →]]> I think that this is a pretty good summation of most of the “third party” (not Democrat or Republican) parties in the United States from politics1.com. Everything from the reasonable to the very nutty.
Thoughts:

• I can imagine the U.S. Marijuana Party’s convention must be interesting.
• The Libertarian Party likes to say that they are the 3rd biggest party, but I’m not sure they can back it up.
• Why does anybody – anybody – still vote for Pat Buchanan? And to base a party around him?
• I notice farther out from “normal” on the political spectrum you go, into the far left and right wing nutville, the more political parties there are.
• If all those socialist parties really want to make a difference, instead of just having meetings and printing newsletters, why don’t they combine? Of course, that’s my opinion with many non-profit groups
• It must be getting really hard to think of names for new political parties
• I think it hilarious that the Communist Party USA has an online store

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