tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post1993216178409597813..comments2024-01-11T07:40:01.736-05:00Comments on The Stopped Clock: Americans Elect and the Disconnect Between Policy and PoliticsAaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523334580402022332noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post-38031520815398865922012-05-16T16:35:17.492-04:002012-05-16T16:35:17.492-04:00Americans Elect is a defective concept. They expec...Americans Elect is a defective concept. They expected to attract a stellar politician to win millions of disaffected voters. Instead, they attracted political failures and unknowns who obtained a mere few thousand votes. Of course!<br /><br />Stellar politicians today are either Republican or Democrat. A stellar politician would know that it is politically impossible to win the presidency as a third party candidate. The most a third party candidate could do would be to act as a spoiler, splitting the vote of his own party, Republican or Democrat, so the other party’s candidate would win. No stellar politician would want to be the cause of that “treachery” to his party compatriots.<br /><br />If, by some miracle the AE candidate won, how could he/she ever accomplish anything as president? He would have no AE members in Congress to work with. Every member of Congress would be in the opposition party, with his former party members hating him the most. There would be increased gridlock as all of Congress would want the AE president to fail, proving the AE idea does not work. <br /><br />AE should start at winning seats in state offices and in Congress, before aiming at the presidency. No athlete runs his first race at the Olympics. Why did the AE donors think they could start first at the highest political office?<br /><br />The only reason Buddy Roemer is seeking the nomination is that he has had a failed political career and no party wants him.<br /><br />He was one of the worst governors in Louisiana history. He could not get along with people, put together a competent staff, or pass legislation. He did not work hard and had no ability to govern. Read this history of LA governors, pages 259-268:<br />http://books.google.com/books?id=Y-0-kmu4vk0C&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=%22Often+wrong,%22+Roemer&source=bl&ots=GXt38E_jVv&sig=poXJMn9QbCUESjDIP2-foOb3YLY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n-xjT7CXDOORiQL8n_SiDw&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22Often%20wrong%2C%20but%20never%20in%20doubt%22%20Roemer&f=false<br /><br />Even today, he is LA's most UNfavorite son. A recent PPP poll rated him the most unpopular presidential candidate, with a 2:1 unfavorable rating in his home state! http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/03/santorum-leads-by-14-in-louisiana.html#more<br /><br />As a LA commentator quipped, in bayou style:<br />“Buddy Roemer, who has been out of politics for 19 years, couldn't win an election as a dogcatcher in Louisiana, much less the Presidency of the United States."<br />http://www.337post.com/yoyo/110309-roemer.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com