Comments for “Notoriety’s Free”: Independent Candidate for Congress Runs as a Pirate at http://www.rcreader.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.rcreader.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:15:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/notorietys-free-independent-candidate/#comment-67 When you are out voting for your next elected official, think about voting for that third party candidate. This country needs a third party...or a fourth or a fifth party...in order to get us away from "staying the course" as all the major party candidates want. The Dems and the Reps have created an insular little world out there in D.C. where they do not have to think about anything more than meeting with the lobby groups and attending parties. Many of them do not even vote on many of the bills. How can they do this? Because they know that when election time comes around, they will succeed in being reelected, barring any scandals or sometimes regardless of scandals, because they have used the system to make it very hard for a challenger by redrawing district lines and simply outspending challengers with all the special interest money they get. It is no longer a vote for ideas or values, but instead it is a vote for which marketing campaign is the slickest. Those third party candidates are actual people that have put their hats in the ring to try and make a difference. Americans should support that drive by actually voting for some of these candidates. Let's make it easier to get new voices and ideas in Congress. The more we as a people show we support third parties, the more third party candidates will step forward so that we have a real choice at election time. The more people we have who are not corrupted by the D.C. system, the more chance we have of righting some of the wrongs that we all complain about whether we are Dems or Reps. Third parties can only make our Democracy stronger. Remember, this country is only one party away from Fascism. - Michael Cotton Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:32:55 +0100