Comments on: It’s Time to Put Up Your Mitts, Mitt

By: Matthew Dickinson

Matthew Dickinson — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:18:43 +0000

Jim,

The sentiments you express are actually a very nice illustration of one of the more troublesome aspects of the current presidential selection process: that because the nominating phase is controlled by party activists who tend to be very partisan in ideological outlooks, both parties often nominate candidate who are viewed as outside the mainstream perspective. This leaves the more moderate voters who tend to participate in the general election having to choose between two candidates, neither of whom really shares a moderate outlook. This was particularly a problem for Democrats in the 1970′s and ’80′s and now, for many people, has become an issue with the current batch of Republicans. This also explains much of the impetus for the creation of a more moderate 3rd party.

By: Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:21:59 +0000

I am a registered Democrat and voted for Obama in the last election. However, I am independent and I am disappointed with Mr Obama’s (non)leadership style and disappointed with what he has and hasn’t accomplished. I blame his advisors. I blame the extreme left wing liberals. On the Republican side I think Romney came across well in this interchange. I think Gingrich came across well in the debates. However, just as Obama’s forced reliance on the far left is a non-formula for solutions for this country’s economic woes, so too are Republican candidates’ reliance on the far conservative right’s formulas that will surely result in further erosion of everyone’s economic world, excluding the already very rich.
So, where are we? Up the creek without a paddle? It sure seems that way!!