Reply #25: Look at the flaws in your theory

[zulchzulu]

First you want national campaigns to be very open to all...including Libertarians, Conservatives, Greens and others.

If you know anything about the base for each party, you will find incredible differences on the most basic of issues. Imagining a Conservative agreeing with a Green is pure folly on most levels.

While it makes for nifty mind-melding political parlor talk with glistening eyes hoping for utopian truths to somehow fly out of reality's ass, this would not work on a national level and to think the grassroots level (which by its very nature is usually bickering with "authority") would sustain a strong level of organizational prowess as Election Day comes is not knowing what really happens in the trenches.

Grassroots means many things. On a local level, it's local efforts to come upon a common goal. Nationally, it is usually a somewhat independent movement that is based on the common message that the national candidate has laid out.

In a national campaign, in order for it not to turn into chaos, there has to be a significant way for the grassroots to stay on message...or else it will confuse people as well as become a confusing campaign.

While it's fun to diss the Repugs for using a national message and having foot soldiers deliver, it is a fairly intact system that we should modify and use as a template.

Otherwise, like I said before, it's like herding cats.