http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2007/05/12/lang/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2007/10/26/mitchell/index.html
Cartoons are often times funny, but the funniest part about them is how often they are true. The Republican party during the Newt years prided itself on loyalty and a party that was very unified. What happened??? (I am in no way defending the action that Newt took). With candidates such as McCain and Guiliani, the Republican party is expirencing a serious lack of loyalty to the party platform.
With the way the polls have been looking, Rudy Guiliani is leading many of the popular polls. This must leave the Republicans shaking in their boots. Rudy feels as obligated to follow the Republican platform as Bush feels obligated to pass Congress' bills. Will candidates like this eventually lead to the end of the two party system?
I personally think this idea is far fetched. However, if we continue to get candidates who do not feel tied to their parties, and instead move toward a more center platform that accomodates more people, will the parties have the strength in government that they do now? We know that candidate centered elections undermine the party system, but is it possible to go a step further and say that it could lead to the end of the party system? I think it is a possibility.
5 comments:
Giuliani is more loyal to Fascism than he is to anything else..
haha
I don't think the candidate-centered elections necessarily lead to a breakdown of the two-party system. There are definitely several other factors keeping the party system together. In fact, I think that to some extent people hold parties responsible for their most well-known candidates, however fair or unfair that may be.
I think its a possibility, but really far fetched that it could happen. The reason I don't think so is that the parties don't really represent those people that are moderate. They represent the issues of the far left or far right. The moderates can be drawn to either party with just a few of their issues being met by a specific candidate. So, i don't think that the two party system will ever go away.
Honestly I feel as though for the party system to break down it would take a lot more than what is going on right now with the candidate centered elections. Parties are still needed so these candidates can run. Just by having the label of one of the major parties its makes everything easier and I don’t see candidates trying to stray away from parties. Instead what I could see happening is that people will continue to be less focused on what party the candidate is from and more focused on the issues.
Use the link feature or post the cartoons right in you blog... just easier that way.
I really liked your groups ideas. I think "finding the happy medium" so to speak is the direction politics should be taking in the first place.
By doing so, I think the people will be better served. Unfortunately, it seems that both parties refuse to see eye to eye on anything making it nearly impossible for such a sensible political plan to actually happen. Maybe we should all move to France or Canada instead.
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