Lieberman Third-Party Run A Good Thing For Democracy
Posted at 12:27 pm on Monday, August 14, 2006, in Uncategorized, and tagged tapper.
A few remaining thoughts on the Lieberman democratic primary loss and subsequent independent run for Senate (posted on Jake Tapper’s blog)…
I was never a supporter of Lieberman (how could I be, I don’t live in Connecticut; haha; but seriously, I am not a fan of his politics), but I do find one thing demonstrably unsettling about immediate calls for Lieberman to “drop out” of the race as an independent. Isn’t a multi-party system (meaning, more than two political parties) the best system we could arrive at in this country? Ideally, shouldn’t there be a liberal, a democrat, an independent, a republican, and a conservative on the ballot, representing the cross-section of the population, all with a decent chance of snagging a good percentage of the vote (depending on the individual electorate, of course)? If that is what happens as a result of the Lamont v. Lieberman storyline, then so be it, and hopefully it means more “third-party” candidates in the future. (Once again, I am not a supporter of Lieberman.)
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