Dreadsox said:
He has a better shot at influencing the election than Nadar. Nadar is only on 38 ballots if I am not mistaken.
I absolutely believe that is true. And he's going to siphon more Bush votes than Nader will siphon Kerry votes, which is the true irony.
The media and hosts of others have made such a big deal about Nader where, Bednarik, a conservative like most Libertarians are actually reformed Republicans. It is the largest growing 3rd party and it's actually the only one I remotely agree with.
I wish we had more real choices, I think the Libertarians could really grow if more conservatives had the balls enough to steer away from Bush. Just my thoughts.
I would like to see the Green Party become bigger too, I don't agree with them, but I think if we were more like Canada and had 5 or 6 parties on the ballots, we would have a much more representative government.
Instead, we get the lesser or two evils. And it will always be this way. The Reform Party had a decent chance, with Perot, who became insane right before the 92 election and then picked arch-conservative Pat Buchanan 4 years later (or was that 2000?).
I say have 2 conservative, 2 liberal and 2 moderate parties on the ballot. But there is way way too much power in the two party system, which is actually something I agree with Rapl Nader 100% about.