Thread: Issues Paving the Way for a Third Candidate

Hot-Button Issues Paving the Way for a Third Candidate
John LeBoutillier
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005

This is a series on the possibility of a third candidate, not necessarily a third party, emerging in American politics in the near future.

Part 1: An Independent Third Candidate in American Politics


Part 2: Obstacles to an Independent Third Candidate

In two previous columns, we have explored the ‘how it could be done' for an Independent Third Candidate to run for president in 2008 – or sometime in the future.
The fund-raising and ballot access issues – difficult obstacles for sure – can be overcome provided there is a sufficient groundswell of support for this ‘different,' charismatic and anti-political candidate.

But what exactly are the key issues that will dominate the next national elections?

Here, in no particular order, are the main issues certain to dominate our future:

1. Getting control of the illegal immigrant issue.

No issue is more hot-button than this – and Washington seems almost oblivious to it. The security aspect is alarming: Tens of thousands of non-Mexicans are crossing our southern border each year and ‘infiltrating' into our nation. How many of them are terrorists awaiting activation orders for some horrendous new attack?

We must get control of our two main borders asap. And it is just plain wrong to have the law broken so blatantly – while the White House and Congress look away.

This will be a huge issue in the next race – even if the so-called mainstream media misrepresent it and make it seem as if the Independent Third Candidate is against all immigrants.

2. Getting off our national addiction to imported oil provided from unstable and repressive governments, i.e., Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

The outflow of precious American dollars to potential enemies of the United States is crazy – and we need to stop it. When we buy Saudi oil, we are not only financing these degenerate royal misfits in their private 747s but also subsidizing their protection-money payoffs to al-Qaida. And then we have to increase our budget deficits even more to provide more for our Pentagon and Homeland Security to prevent another al-Qaida attack.

We need – as previously written here – a Project Independence, a crash joint government-private industry program to accelerate the production of non-petroleum-powered vehicles. Perhaps we transition along this path with hybrids for a few years while hydrogen fuel cell cars are produced, or something else.

But whatever it is, we must – as a key part of our national security and economic survival – get off of this addiction to imported foreign oil within the next few years.

This will be a hot issue as long as the price of gas at the pump and home heating fuel sap the average family of hard-earned cash.

Why can't our best scientists and brains figure out a new way to produce cheaper energy – without being dependent on our enemies?

They can – and will – especially once the American public tells them to in the 2008 election.

3. Going back to true and honest conservative financial principles.


The debt and deficits run up by the so-called ‘conservative' Bush administration in conjunction with a so-called ‘conservative' GOP-controlled Congress border on criminal. These guys are no conservatives! They are a disgrace to their party and to their political philosophy.

We need to reduce the rate of increase in federal spending. Period! And we need to make cuts – across the board – in all this waste these guys knowingly voted for this year.

We need to get back to a balanced federal budget – like the one a GOP-controlled Congress produced in the 1990s while it opposed Clinton spending.

And we need to begin paying down the massive and ever-growing national debt, which is a huge hidden tax on us all.


We also need to dig ourselves out of debt to foreign nations, especially Red China. It is disgraceful that foreign governments are ‘owning' more and more of ‘our' nation.

4. Getting Osama bin Laden.

It is a disgrace that this murderer has gone free since 9/11 – and that the U.S. government has refocused itself in the last four years more on Iraq than on getting Osama.

5. Getting out of Iraq.


We have deposed Saddam and brought that mass murderer to justice. There are no WMDs in Iraq (if there ever were any, which is doubtful). Iraq is no longer our problem. Let the Iraqis run their own country. Our wonderful U.S. troops are not meant to be substitute Iraqi policemen.

We have done the job. It is time to worry more about our own country.


Conclusion: these five issues are the main platform that will attract voters from across the political spectrum.

Politically, this country is in great flux: The Democrats are a nothing party that stands for nothing and can't relate to the American people anymore. And the Republicans, under President Bush and a weak Congress, have squandered a golden opportunity to change many things in America for the better. Instead, we are mired now in a sour period with no leadership.

Pollster Stanley Greenberg describes a new political phenomenon: ‘Dislodged' voters, i.e., voters who are unhappy with their own parties, are leaving them but not joining the other party; they are just sitting there – waiting for something new to come along.

2008 will be a watershed period where the two parties may take a backseat to this Independent Third Candidate. And it may be the best thing that ever happened to our system: As Thomas Jefferson said, "A little revolution every now and then is a good thing."

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I think America is ready not only for a third candidate but for a third party to take the lead.

Yes you guys; Let US dream on the possiblilty of a 3rd Party!!

One not obligated to any part of the past but that respecting of The Constitution.

Let this party take a stand against appointed judges that are not Judging in the Spirit of that Law.

Let this Party stand for Equality under the Law,

with predjudice against those that have not undergone the uniformly applied Immigration Law, or any other LAWS effected by the States legally within the framework of the Constitution,

and have undergone and obey its rules and adjudication.

Let this Party STAND for the People that can lay claim to these rights by Birth, or by Sworn Fealty(THE OATH).

Let this Party defend these People with PREJUDICE, over all matters with regards to civil liberties, economy, and conduct of foreign policy and impact of that, on the Citizenry.

Let this Party do as George Washington said, and dispose of those who would risk our Nation to foreign entanglements which lead to undue influence.

Let this Party balance OUR budget, and conduct foreign trade policy on a EQUAL basis. Only a surplus in OUR behalf would define the extent of our imports.

US FIRST! cheers glenn