typical anti-America republicans
 

Republicans are balking at a Democratic senator's proposal to make it easier for minor parties to be listed on the Tennessee ballot.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jim Kyle of Memphis wants to set a threshold of 10,000 signatures from eligible voters for a third party to be recognized in the state, down from a GOP proposal of about 40,000 signatures from registered voters.

"My goal is to allow people who believe they're in the Tea Party or the Green Party or the Libertarian Party to get on the ballot," Kyle said. "Any organization that can get 10,000 signatures is as legitimate a political entity as any other.

"People should be able to stand up there and say I believe in these principles. I just think democracy works better when the rules are fair."

Republican House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick of Chattanooga said he is concerned about fracturing Tennessee's political landscape.

"I don't want to see us become like Italy and have a dozen different parties and all these splinter groups, and have to make coalitions with them,"


http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...0321/1969/NEWS

Yes Mr McCormick I'm sure if you had your way there would be only ONE party. Why should voters have actual CHOICE?

I like anti american and republican in same sentence to make up for them calling dems unpatriotic.

hold on a minute... wait...whoa there

crack the two party system!!?? No WAY can that happen in the US, no sir!

Typical anti intelligent democrats.

40,000 represents 7/10ths of one percent of Tennessee's population.
thats less than 1% for you people who went to school in the south. There's no need to lower the threshold to 2/10ths of a percent.
its so funny watching our least intelligent try to make an issue out of common sense.

So what is that reply? A typical insult hurling republican? Why do you always do that, I swear it is because of replies like that which made me decide to just ignore political threads altogether. And no I am not left blind, I know you get attacked right back and in my opinion as good as you give. But I find both sides in a playground fight to be rather immature.

The tone of the political discussions on GFY mirror the tone of political discussions across the US. I have honestly lost all hope for our society as this problem only seems to be getting worse and it would take a fundamental change in the republican party's tactics in order for there to be any real change in this regard.

I say the republican party specifically because the democratic leadership had their backbones removed and Rove perfected this type of slash and burn political hype

you gotta start somewhere. if its only 1% then what are they worried about? any step towards knocking down the 2 party farce is a good one.

exactly, its already under 1% so what ARE the democrats worried about?

Its silly to have 20 choices on a ballot.
at least thats the opinion of most adults.

No Spaz, your powers of perception are severely lacking this morning. This "reply" was as stupid as the title of the thread, which was kinda the point. It had no significance whatsoever. And the last thing I want to do is get into a political discussion on a forum where 99% of its inhabitants are blubbering morons (not you).

:1orglaugh Actually I got the point of the reply. I just would have liked to have seen your opinion on the 'meat' of the OP. I would have thought that people who are right leaning would like the idea of multiple parties because it gives much more freedom of choice and better representation... I know that is why I like the idea

I can understand that the republican party and I would even say the democrats (in whispers) would not like it because it would require a lot of work and a lot of compromise to get work done. There would be a much weaker 'party line'. But as far as I know you're a conservative and not a member of the RNC leadership, so how do you feel about a multi-party system


to 12clicks: you are absolutely correct, that is a massively small minority of the states population needed to create a new party on the ballots. I have no idea what % of the registered voters that works out to or even expected/likely voters. But even so, in my opinion it has got to start somewhere

spaz, it already started. at 7/10ths of 1%.

There's nothing here that "needs to start" and lowering an already low threshold is not "starting" anything.

:1orglaugh ya know what is truly messed up about that number? 7/10ths appears to be too high of a bar to reach hahaha At least in Tennessee :thumbsup

I guess those schools in the south didn't teach you that 1 in 4 people are under the age of 18.

Irrelevant.

I'm guessing someone as dumb as you couldn't get through high school.

And Spaz, I'm in favor of multi party systems but honestly I don't care whether they exist or not. But I wouldn't take anything GatorB posts seriously, even if it is a link to a serious issue.

Yes they are irrelevant since the article specifically mentions 'registered voters'.

Says the guy who's only claim to fame is being a troll on a porn board. :1orglaugh

So my only claim to fame is being a troll on a porn forum while your only claim to fame is being a moron on a porn forum? Wow, thanks for proving my point.:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

A Tea Party candidate might get an otherwise republican vote if it were on the ballot as a competitor to the republican candidate. Thats another perspective.

exactly, and a green party candidate might get votes from democrats. By electing a wide range of views to public office you really force the politicians to do their job which is compromise with others to form a majority for the benefit of the people that put them there. I love the idea of multiple parties, I wish it could happen on a national level

poor old Bernie Sanders... all on his lonesome