Good evening again, Robert!
Robert Goodman wrote to Douglas Friedman...
In part, I believe, or at least think I wrote as follows:
Mostly, it doesn't
honestly matter when politicians run for office when the expediency of
knowing
that they live in a largely Democrat or Republican State. For those
seriously
wishing to win a race, they most likely will shift at a moments notice to
the
Party that would most likely win, and spend a lot of corporate big bucks
Responding to Doug Friedman, you wrote:
But there are sometimes other ways to game the system. Michael Bloomberg,
a rich guy, changed enrollment to Republican to run for mayor of NYC. That
was so he could avoid a Democratic primary and put his money directly to
use with the same message all the way thru the general election. (He got
the GOP nomination uncontested.) He's running for re-election as nominee
of the Republican and Independence parties, and in addition got a Liberal
ballot label via petition. (The Liberals were for a half century an
official party, but now it's an independent label.) This time he faces the
very weak winner of the Democratic primary, Ferrer, who is being enormously
outspent and trailing about 2-1 in the polls.
I suspect, anyway, that is what I was originally trying to allude
to in the first place.
Maybe perhaps, we need to address how principles, versus Party
labels, fit into this mix in terms of American politics. And, in
such a context, just how can principles, or at least individuals
in principle, run for public office when Parties (in and of
themselves) most often reflect expediency in terms of 'getting
elected'?
As I wrote before, if you happened to be a REALLY principled
'Conservative' residing in Hawaii -- you would most certainly
list yourself as a Democrat if you really had any hope of ever
being considered electable! In Idaho, the reverse is most often
the case: If you are a socialist, liberal, you will find a way
to make it onto the GOP ticket if you hope to get elected at all.
To be fair here, that is not always the case. Occasionally,
some doctrinaire Democrats in Idaho actually do get elected as
Democrats, but that is rare.
Now the question. If you are a Libertarian in Hawaii, or in
Idaho, what do you do?
Kindest regards,
Frank
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