Americans Elect Struggles to Find Suitable Third-Party Candidate

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Dear Sir,
As an independent third party candidate of Federalist Party, I would run the presidency from a engineering perspective. I do not depend on lobbyists to come up with solutions, my package includes to name a few:
1) A different voluntary health care system.
2) A water crisis solution.
3) As an engineer, I redesigned the hydrogen automobile and redesigned the steam engine cars, using newly discovered technologies. I would donate the designs to reduce gasoline consumption.
4) The capitalist system is no longer tenable in its current form, I redesigned it to fit the current and future generations.
5) My stand on politics can be viewed on Vote Smart.com.
6) Restore Posse Comitatus.
7) I have designed an indoor/outdoor job creation projects. Made in America,by Americans with American resources.
8) If we fail to study history today, we are condemned to repeat it.
9) Replace dangerous Uranium with the less powerful and safer Thorium. Which by the way would defuse an Iranian war.
10) I will show you why Russian President Putin teams up with Communist China.
11) Communist China is gobbling up all the gold in the world and explain why.
12) Judge Andrew Napalitano would be my Vice Presidential running mate. Mr. Glen Greenwald is included on the team and a future Supreme court judge.
13) A quick response preparedness system to handle any and all emergencies.
14) Permanently returning U.S. soldiers from bases around the world that no longer need or want us.
15) I redesigned how cargo containers can be 100% inspected using new technologies and physically redesigning the port layout.
16) The United States is a republic and not an empire. We can no longer be the worlds policeman, that is the responsibility of the U.N.
17) Getting all 50 states with Governors and their complete legislators under one roof using a convention center with new voting technology to setup a Second Constitutional Convention. Remember: Article V of the constitution states two thirds (33) to call and ratified by three fourths (38) states.
18) Setting up a poverty program, not a Socialist one.
These are just a few examples of viable alternative recommendations the 99% can evaluate and study. This will not be rammed down their throat.
In conclusion:
A) Your first 2 Presidents (George Washington and John Adams) were Federalists. Opposing them were at first anti-federalists, which later became the Democratic/Republican Party. My,my how history repeats itself.
B) I do not accept any donations, there are too many poor people, myself included that struggle to survive daily. However, they can donate money to homeless shelters, food pantries. tent cities,etc or their helping to serve them in lieu of money. Also, as my own Treasurer, I want to turn in all zeors to the Federal Election Commission. Oh! By the way they do not check birth certificates. It was never requested of me when I ran in 2008 under the American New Genesis Party or today's Federalist Party. I will present.

joseph felix leonaitis of MS 6:34AM May 20, 2012

A Third Part Candidate ?
I am still waiting for the Democrats to put forth a Honest American Loving Candidate.

Vincent Lawrence of MN 3:23PM May 18, 2012

I always figured no candidate from one of the major parties would have the guts to run--and that's because I (unlike the media) always BELIEVED Ross Perot when he said he'd received threats regarding his daughter's wedding.
The two parties are quite as capable of instilling cold fear as any communist or fascist state. when Perot ran, in NH (where I lived) he was UNABLE TO BUY a half-hour slot for a paid commercial. I imagine the station is threated by the two party cabal that they will withdraw all their advertsing if a 3d party is able to buy on that station.
What a sad end for a country that began with a handful of "quixotic" people (the kind Mayor Bloomberg has such contempt for) willing to give up everythin in declaring independence.
With Citizens United cash in full sway this time around we're headed, inexorably toward corporate fascism.
If I sound gloomy, I am.
The two-party monopoly is what is at the heart of everything wrong with America. I pray Americans Elect will decide to LET A CANDIDATE RUN in 2012 even if goals not set this time around. It is a flicker of hope for the fututre. Give it time, please. Mr. Roemer is an absolutely qualified candidate--far better qualified in terms of government experience and business experience than either Obama in 2008 and Romney in2012.
He did actually BUILD a business--not merely invest to make money as has been Romney's only business experience.

aurora1920 of FL 12:57AM May 17, 2012

As the Supreme Leader of the Arizona Americans Elect Party, I should point out that whatever the people who created this "party" had in mind, they got enough signatures on petitions to create actual political parties in some states. At last count, there were about 150 voters in Arizona who, like myself, are registered members of the Americans Elect Party. We are recognized as one of the five current parties entitled to a ballot line this year (along with the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Greens).
And thanks to a quirk in Arizona election law, a write-in candidate of a new party like Americans Elect can win the primary and be listed on the November ballot for federal, state or local office if she wins a plurality of the votes cast in the primary -- as little as one vote. (In 2010, I won the Green Party primary for Congress in my district with six write-in votes, and a challenge to my appearing on the general election ballot failed in federal court.)
One of our Americans Elect voters is running for the Corporation Commission, trying to get enough petition signatures to get on the ballot, and others may be running for other offices. I am encouraging any Arizonan who wants to run for office in November to register with our new party and become a write-in candidate for the state legislature, Congress, Corporation Commission or other offices. Essentially we will be a collection of independents of various views with our own party.
http://azamericanselect.blogspot.com/

Richard Grayson, Supreme Leader, Arizona Americans Elect Party of AZ 10:15PM May 16, 2012

Americans Elect is a defective concept. They expected to attract a stellar politician who would win millions of disaffected voters. Instead, they attracted only political failures or unknowns who obtained only a few thousand votes. Why would they expect anything different?
Stellar politicians today are either Republicans or Democrats. A stellar politician who would attract millions of voters 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.
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 every member of Congress would want the AE president to fail, to prove that the whole AE idea does not work.
AE should have started first at winning seats in state offices and in Congress, before aiming at the presidency. No athlete tries his first race at the Olympics. Why did the AE donors think they could start first at the highest political office?
The only reason Buddy Roemer is seeking the nomination is that he has had a failed political career and could never expect to be elected to anything again.
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 seemed to love the adoration of his campaign followers but had no ability to govern. Read this excellent history of Louisiana’s governors, pages 259-268:
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
Even today, he is Louisiana's most UNfavorite son. A recent PPP poll in LA rated him the most unpopular presidential candidate, with only 28% rating him favorably to 56% with a negative opinion-- a 2:1 unfavorable rating in his home state! http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/03/santorum-leads-by-14-in-louisiana.html#more
As a Louisiana political commentator quipped, in typical bayou style:
“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."
http://www.337post.com/yoyo/110309-roemer.html

Say Amen of LA 2:30PM May 16, 2012