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May 30, 2006
Virtual Nominating Convention for 2008
There's a new website project aimed at putting together a third major ticket in the 2008 presidential election. It's called Unity08, and it looks interesting enough to watch over the next year or so to see what kind of momentum builds for its proposal: to nominate a viable, bipartisan/centrist pair of candidates using the Internet, and to shake up what's become the standard election process.
More power to them, I say. I'm tired; many of us are tired of the bleating that passes for discourse. That said, it appears that many of you are still hooked on that kind of thing, so I am not holding my breath.
It's worth noting that Unity08 isn't an attempt to establish a political party, at least in a permanent sense. There is a rare strain of pragmatism displayed in recognizing that most of your candidate pool resides within the existing major parties, and that it would be too resource-intensive to try and attract defections -- and that intrigues me.
Thanks go to The Moderate Voice for pointing out this effort.
Political News | By joe lance | 10:12 PM