David Pakman: GOP Already Refusing Proposed Budget Cuts; Voters Gloomy About GOP Majority

[Carnage251]

Run time: 07:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuwrgacpXe4   Posted on YouTube: November 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: MidweekPolitics Views on YouTube: 14   Posted on DU: November 26, 2010 By DU Member: Carnage251 Views on DU: 1053

 

[Frisbee]

1. "Voters Gloomy About GOP Majority"

The voters are so dismayed with both parties (and with good reason) that I wonder if a 3rd party candidate who has the right ideas and can get them across, while not having any nasty skeletons in their closet couldn't win. Of course, they'd be fighting an uphill battle trying to fund a long and hard fought campaign without huge corporate donors, but it just seems like now may be the best chance for it to work that I can remember. I for one can think of several possibilities for a 2012 ticket that would get me excited, and no, none of them would include Obama.

[pscot]

2. The problem there

is that a 3rd party that appealed to the right ould be totaly unacceptable to progressives and vice-versa. Obama has tried to appeal to the middle and ended up pleasing nobody. The place may be ungovernable.

[Frisbee]

3. I was think more along the lines of..

a true progressive ticket (think Dean/Feingold/Grayson, just throwing some names out, but there are a lot of possibilities). They would get near zero repubs or tea-partiers, but would get most if not all Dems and possibly a large block of independents. I really wonder how people would respond to a true progressive ticket with candidates who spoke the truth and had minimal corporate ties. But in reality, you are probably correct.

[julian09]

5. Need independent congress not just president

and a senate that is majority ruled not minority ruled.

[celtics23]

4. I came to post this, but it already was NT