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Originally Posted by RadioActiveRich

This is another one of those things that everybody goes apesh1t for when it is said, but never really made sense to me.

But, if you ever want rousing applause during a speech just talk about how you hate partisan politics and how there should be term limits. People go nuts.

The truth is though, that the problem isn't political parties. It is that you cannot tell the parties apart anymore. What is the real difference between the GOP and the Dems? Both want amnesty, both want healtcare reform (just different versions), both spend money like drunken monkeys and then blame everyone else. No difference.

Partisan politics is good. There is nothing wrong with it. We just need to get the American people to do their part and call BS when they are supposed to.

As for term limits, there is no law that says you even have to nominate the incumbent again. There is your term limit. Primaries and elections are term limits. Anything else is a cop out by the voters. You want the person out? Vote them out!

I dislike both the Republican and Democrat parties: The agendas may be different, but in the end it is the same result for regular people.

And there is no solace in the hope of a third party. Most are nuts, crackpots and something like the cure being much worse than the disease.

Yet the two main parties give us little in the way of candidates which may be palatable to centrist America - it's as though the extremists in both parties have a lock on the nomination of candidates. We have a choice on who scares us the least, and that's called "representative government"?

Something needs to change in the way candidates are chosen and presented to the public. Otherwise the two parties will continue to sodomize us.