11-03-2004, 07:07 PM
I don't pretend to speak for Matt but this is my beef with the third parties that show up every so often.
They think they can build their party by starting out at the presidency. Think about how stupid that is. That would be like me coming out of college then trying to be hired as CEO of IBM. It doesn't happen like that. For any of the third parties to rise and succeed they need to prove that their ideals are successful at the local, state, and congressional levels. The reason no one really takes them seriously is because many of them have never held an office of any kind. Sure, you could still technically become president but if people have never heard of you before the election year and you have no history, you have no chance.
Then there's the fact that it would be difficult for the third parties to raise the kind of money to run a successful presidential campaign without a support base. Grassroots organizations raised 10's of millions of dollars for both parties, the Green and Libertarian parties had no such apparatus to even get their foots in the door.
If any party is going to challenge the Democratic and Republican stranglehold they are going to have to do it the old-fashioned way. Through hard work, through evangelism, through building a legacy. They will never be successful trying to win the lazy way unless the 2 major parties self-destruct.
They think they can build their party by starting out at the presidency. Think about how stupid that is. That would be like me coming out of college then trying to be hired as CEO of IBM. It doesn't happen like that. For any of the third parties to rise and succeed they need to prove that their ideals are successful at the local, state, and congressional levels. The reason no one really takes them seriously is because many of them have never held an office of any kind. Sure, you could still technically become president but if people have never heard of you before the election year and you have no history, you have no chance.
Then there's the fact that it would be difficult for the third parties to raise the kind of money to run a successful presidential campaign without a support base. Grassroots organizations raised 10's of millions of dollars for both parties, the Green and Libertarian parties had no such apparatus to even get their foots in the door.
If any party is going to challenge the Democratic and Republican stranglehold they are going to have to do it the old-fashioned way. Through hard work, through evangelism, through building a legacy. They will never be successful trying to win the lazy way unless the 2 major parties self-destruct.