Creating that mythical third party would be a monumental task, beginning with the 'herding of the cats' - finding the necessary number of people to create a progressive coalition, and some degree of consensus to hold that coalition together. Only after that could you start on the equally difficult work of assembling the necessary expertise, building a platform and then raising the funds to disseminate your message. I don't think the current moneyed interests or media insiders are going to help you with those tasks. Then you hit an even bigger problem; without achieving total success you're most likely to merely split the left-ish vote and hand a number of districts to the Repugnants. Which, I presume, is not what you want.

Otherwise known as the Ron Paul campaign for president. There really needs to be a full documentary film done on why his campaign was never able to gain the kind of momentum it should have given the popularity of his message and the results of his fundraising. This is not making any kind of comment on Ron Paul the person, or his idiosyncrasies. Rather, what should be included in such an investigative documentary is the treatment his campaign received by the MSM. From not being given any resemblance of equal time or on-air access, the ways in which both state and federal election agencies worked to exclude him from debates, conventions, etc, and the pure lack of everyone in the election process to address the issues Paul himself kept bringing up time and again (which largely received a lot of eye-rolling from the media and other candidates, but which were important arguments to nearly all of his millions of followers).

Ron Paul's candidacy represented many of the views of millions upon millions of voters, and yet the 2 party system, in direct collusion with the MSM, effectively rendered it a mere sideshow, deriding it and injecting the "don't waste your vote on him" meme at every opportunity.

I think we all know what the results of that documentary would say. Given that, why do we even bother with the system as it currently sits? Why do we continue to put up with this shit? It is painfully clear, at least to me, that our Constitutional Republic is being choked out of existence. We can all sit here and endlessly join in the mental masturbation flavor of the day, but when examining the scope of the problem from all corners of our existence (economic, political, judicial), how much more evidence must their be before we decide as a people that fundamental, immediate change is necessary?

When does true regime change come to the US?

I'm a freakin' libertarian/liberal and I could write a column explaining conservative thought better than this.

Truly, this column is a massive waste of time and effort if you aren't going to get someone who will actually delve into the subject with some semblance of intellectual honesty.

I can do this, and my current business is in the tank. My rates are reasonable. Please, look me up.

When was the last time you heard a right-wing conservative discuss his views in an intellectually honest, logical manner?

Seriously.....

I can't even remember the last time I heard such a thing. It certrainly wasn't present in the McCain/Palin campaign, and it certainly isn't present in anything I see or hear from the wingys on teevee or radio, nevermind the general public, who swallow whatever is fed to them hook, line, and sinker. Hell, even that vapid fop GlenEllen Walkin can't fake sounding intelligent when discussing conservative viewpoints.

The only viable conclusion one can come to is that the entirety of the right-wing conservative movement is sociopathic in just about every sense of the word. The Cartman/South Park analogy is the only thing I've heard that makes any sense. They just keep repeating the crap until they believe it's the gospel. Fact-based discussion = egghead surrender monkey talk.

I'll lay 4-1 odds that we get either nothing or the heavily redacted version of the memos. I got $5 bucks on me....

While I know Glenn is loathe to "read everything" into just one or two acts or behaviors, I have to agree this will truly be the litmus test as to what kind of man, leadership, and administration we have elected. When it comes to the importance of doing something for the sake of it being the right thing, it doesn't get any more litmussy than this.

Perhaps since it's now been handed down from our King that CIA operatives won't be prosecuted for what was clearly torture, there is now an appeal case to be made for the Lindy Englunds of the world to now be freed based on these latest proclamations.

I mean after all, in America, the law (or lawlessness) is supposed to apply equally to everyone, right?

Of course, that would naturally lead to every convicted physical abuser across our jailed lands will now have a case to be made for his or her release....

....and down the spiral we go.

While I appreciate the release of the memos, it is a far cry from Obama doing what is right in this case.