Barely 24 hours after the final Presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama wraps up in Satan’s Backwash, Florida, a collection of third-party candidates will take to the stage (and the Internet!) to present to Americans a wider spectrum of ideas than the ones voters will hear on Monday night.
Staged by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation and hosted by the ghost of CNN’s credibility as a news organization widely watched cable channel, candidates from the far right and left will present the case to American voters for a much wider political discussion.
Tuesday night at the Chicago Hilton the following four candidates will hold forth on a much wider breadth of policies, many of which you didn’t hear a bit of during the three Presidential debates. The drug war will undoubtedly make an appearance (no doubt courtesy of the Libertarians), as will global warming and climate change (hello, Green Party!).
Larry King will moderate, because, as his press release stated, he’s ‘interviewed every President since Nixon’. Well, that’s no worse than Jim Lehrer’s qualification’s of ‘I still nominally have a pulse’, one supposes.
The four candidates involved represent ideas across the spectrum:
- Gary Johnson-Libertarian
- Jill Stein- Green Party
- Rocky Anderson- Justice Party
- Virgil Goode- Constitution Party
Fortunately, because Americans can barely handle hearing the same ideas presented differently by two men of different skin tones, this debate will note be broadcast on network or cable television, though it will get some serious burn on the Internet, via Free and Equal’s website and allegedly on Russian TV, because, hey, why not?
Unfortunately, you’ll hear very little of this debate, as it’s not approved by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is just a fancy thing the GOP and the DNC put together 25 years ago to make it easier to keep outsiders away from the process.
Perhaps Ann Coulter will lend it some legitimacy by calling one of the candidates a retard, because that’s how serious politics works.
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