re: #286 Fozzie Bear

No he didn’t. He did, however, cost Gore quite a few votes in the general election, in an election season where literally a few votes made the difference.

But that is an entirely different thing than your original objections. You were objecting to a primary challenge because you feared the primary candidate would then go third party.

Since you’re now raising a more valid concern - a third party challenger - I’m going to argue against it. Not in general, this time, but in specific. Who?

Who do you know at this time who has name recognition to challenge 5 to 10% of the Left Side vote, who has expressed an interest in running, who has the money and/or backing to get on the ballots of enough states to matter?

Nader and Perot, the last two to do this, were both open and active by this point.

Frankly, the only person I can think of at this point who can run as a spoiler third party is not on the Left. Palin would pull votes from the Right, instead.