Raymond_Fawkes wrote:
Opening the stage to candidates like this pretty much destroys all real fundamental change in a 3rd party movement. Take for example, the beginnings of the tea party. It was founded on a platform against both the Republicans and Democrats .. the establishment saw that it was a threat so they infiltrated it, and halted that movement with Fox news. Then what did you get ? All of a sudden, the tea party became boosters for the Republican Party -- wake up people ! !
All Independents who wanted change in New York, are side railed by disruptive trivial candidates like this. I'm sure atleast a quarter of Independents (or people who swore off both the Republicans/Democrats) will vote for this loon just because of his personality and satire. Is this guy really our last hope ? Or are people so disenfranchised like myself knowing Andrew Coumo is going to win, that it almost becomes irrelevant who you vote for either way.. thing's like this annoy me.
If he wants to marry a shoe ... let him !
Cuomo's got it locked, but I wouldn't be so fast to completely dismiss this guy. Of course he doesn't stand a chance in hell, but I'm not so sure that any 3rd party candidate really ever has a chance anyway. What McMillan brings to the table is a voice seldom heard. He actually has some very valid points about the poor in NY (and the rest of the US) that no one else ever wants to talk about. He's just pleading for the basics.
We talk a lot about the economy, health care, education, political campaigning, etc., but we have yet to address the fact that we have an outrageously high number of kids in NY (and the rest of the US) who don't know where they'll be sleeping tonight, or if they will get fed, even in a situation with working parents. The poor seem to be constantly left out of the equation and they are rarely, if ever represented in Albany (or other state capitals).