A Third Party in 2008?

The other day my friend was telling me about a third party that was trying to get on the ballot in 2008 as an alternative to the Democratic and Republican Parties. I have pretty much always been against the Republicans. Recently I've become increasingly disgusted with the Democrats for not taking action against Bush. As truth-pain (awesome blog btw) said, "you guys spend 90% of your bull-horn minutes bashing Bush and 10% giving semi-salient alternatives to his policies. " Although this is a slight exaggeration, there really is too much Bush-bashing going on among the Democrats. Although I'm still leaning Democratic, this third party idea seems like a good idea and seems like it would be successful in 2008 because the American people are getting pretty fed up with the Republicans and the Democrats.

So, what's this party all about? This is their home website. The party is called Unity08. It is "a movement to take our country back from polarizing politics. In 2008, we’ll select and elect a Unity Ticket to the White House— one Democrat, one Republican, in whatever order, or independents committed to a Unity team."

They believe that "neither of today’s major parties reflects the aspirations, fears or will of the majority of Americans. Both have polarized and alienated the people. Both are unduly influenced by single-issue groups. Both are excessively dominated by money." I think the Republicans are more dominated by money, but nonetheless both parties are getting to be more focused on hating each other than on what's good for the country.

"We [Unity08] will not waste time pointing fingers. Instead, we will focus on how America can find common ground on critical issues – to give the overlooked moderate majority a voice and a choice in 2008." - What a good idea! Actually focus on what's good for the American people.

They believe they can succeed because
1. The American people know that the current political system is broken and that the time is short to fix it.
2. A solidly-funded movement of up to 20,000,000 Americans can be built online in order to nominate a Unity Ticket of their choice for 2008.
3. Seeing the numbers, leaders in both parties will see that a Unity Ticket in 2008 represents the jolt the political system needs to get back on track.
4. The tens of millions of Americans who have not been voting out of cynicism toward the current system are likely to rally to new leadership with a new approach.

Also, poll numbers back them up. Here's an article I found on them from Google News.

I don't know if this will ever take off. From the sounds of it, it might. Third party candidates have never gotten much support, or ever won a presidential election. However this is different. I don't think the Republicans and the Democrats have ever had such polarizing views. True, they stood for different things, but they could see the good in each other. And also their views weren't based on, okay you think that, well I'm going to think the opposite now. They actually stood up for what they believed in. I miss this, and hope that maybe if anything this third party can awaken the Democrats and the Republicans to the fact that Americans are upset with them, and maybe they will get their priorities in order.