Centrist PAC
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Good DecisionsNow this is a good idea. Don’t form your own centrist party. Create a coalition of willing centrists to affect change within both parties so they’ll be pulled more towards the middle.
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A bunch of Centrist Bloggers are talking about forming a National Centrist PAC. The aim would be to help elect candidates and promote Policies. We would have a central web site and blog, where we would discuss which candidates to support and how to raise money for them. Something in the fashion of Moveon, Actblue, or Daily Kos.What is our aim? To encourage and put a premium on cooperation, collaboration, compromise, bi-partisanship, pragmatism, efficiency, incremental movement forward. Perhaps also to have an impact on main stream media by talking about inspired compromise on controversial issues.
I’m already talking to the Austin Centrist guys and I’ll have details as they come out.
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March 16th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
You know, Donklephant is already partly involved in this as Michael and I have both signed on to this thing. I think the rest of Donklephant’s writers and readers would be more than welcome to sign on as well.
March 16th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Send the info to my email …. I’m in!
March 17th, 2006 at 1:25 am
Hey, we’re in…completely. I love this idea as we could support both a Dem and Repub moderate candidate. It’s a very cool idea, and one whose time has come.
March 17th, 2006 at 6:20 am
Yes a third party is nearly impossible. What we need is a Ross Perot with the money to go with it. Maybe to not be an equal to the other parties but to at least influence the other two parties.
As a long time Democrat who would like to see more of a common sense Democrat and also as someone who would like to see either one party run both Houses of Congress and the other the WHouse or one party have a House of Congress and the WHouse and the other the other House of Congress.
We need checks and balances as we have seen in the past with the Democrats and now with the GOP with unchecked power comes carelessness.
When the GOP ran Congress and Clinton was President, government spending grew at their slowest rate in years. That made the politicians compromise, cause without that nothing would have gotten done in 8 years.
We need to go back to that, I think. Let the Dems and the GOP rip each other apart, that will keep them as much out of our lives as possible.