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The Decider said:
I agree. But unfortunately for campaign finance reform advocates like you and I, Ron Paul, and most Libertarians, do not. Without a somewhat equal money playing field, the Libertarians will be out of contention for the foreseeable future. Unless some populist like Ron Perot takes another crack at the presidential race--minus all the crazy behavior.
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I would tend to agree, but I would also add the other variable I see open, which is that Americans by majority are forced to vote by conscience rather than traditional methods, due to the unprecedented bad choices being provided by our current flock of failures from the major parties.
I think it should be kind of flattering it takes these incumbent parties millions of dollars to fool the public into thinking their previous
record of lying and doing the opposite of what they say, is somehow gone, and they are somehow now valid canidates who should be given trust and respect as "having our best intrests" as their focus.
The Bi-Partisan Monopoly is to easy to expose anymore, which is why it is taking millions of dollars of hush money, favors and backroom agreements to keep the scham going.
I would like to think the Bush/Cheney mistake was a last, desperate grasp for empire in sea of changing public attitude, but the media today is quite powerful to the largely uninformed.
Its a bumpy road ahead, regardless of the tactics and players. Now more than ever I hope the people recognize the need to curtail the power of government, based on the plays going on now for unitary executive power, congressional oversight abuse, and outright ignorance or complicity, and un-constitutional law creation and adoption, without prior reading and debate worthy of the event.
Time will tell.