America needs a third party like a fish needs a bicycle.
This is the computer age, which is, as yo know, based on the idea of BINARY, as in TWO.
No third party would put anyone in a category that is not already espoused by one or the other present parties.
You see what third party candidates have done in the past.
Russ Perot got the Arkansas hillbilly elected in 1992 and 1996.
Ralph Nader got George W. Bush elected in 2000.
If you want America to become like Europe, encourage third, fourth, fifth, sixth....thirtieth parties to grandstand and ruin your life and your country.
I disagree.
Wanting only two choices is retarded. There are infinite shades of gray in the electorate which is why I split my vote locally. Federally under our constitution; it makes zero sense to elect a President of one party and a congress of another when one has to rely on the other to get anything done (hence gridlock).
Further; If "no third party would put anyone in a category that is not already espoused by one or the other present parties", Perot and Nader would not have had an outcome. BTW; it was Pat Buchanan that got Bush elected in 2000.
There is a large issue of trust involved as well. Nobody could trust Romney who gained his victory in the primaries due to his running against dumb and dumber (Santorum and Gingrich). So just because he was the nominee; could you trust him to follow through? Not really. As for the Dems; hope and change was more hope than change as it turns out. The most "transparent" administration in history doesn't seem that much of a change from his predacessors.
Multiple (infinite number of) shades of grey is just another (cowardly) expression saying: I have no spine, I love to vacillate between here and there, I don't mind if I get big slivers in my ass for sitting on the fence, I am too weak to make up mind (which I may or may not have) about what is right or wrong.
When you split your vote and vote one party locally and another state or federally, you only reveal your lack of spine, your greediness and your intention to be a full fledged free-loader. If you can not trust the candidate of your choice on the local level, but he/she is fine with you on state or federal level, you displayed exactly what trust your representative on any level can place in you.
When you say dumb and dumber and mention the names of Santorum and Gingrich, once again you display your ignorance. Santorum and Gingrich - collectively - had and still have, far more political savvy, experience, knowledge, honesty and dignity, than any Obama/Biden, Obama/Clinton, Biden/Clinton, Obama/anyDemocrat etc. could ever have or had. But you were, obviously mesmerized by a snake oil salesman, whose only merit on the political stage was an admittedly rousing - but phony - speech, a half-term state senatorship, a half-term U.S, senatorship - quit both for personal and selfish gain - and you are about to be mesmerized by a skank whose only 'qualification' for being more than local dog-catcher is being the wife of a former president.
Since you are, obviously, a liberal, you declared that my position on a two party system was "retarded". You also claimed that the Constitution, that gives you the checks and balances makes zero sense. If you had any decency, loyalty, patriotism and integrity, you would not split your vote in order to gain some tiny padding to your pocket book.
Finally, go back to Grade 2 and get some spelling lessons.
