How About Running a GOP Spoiler as an Independent @ 2008 Presidential election?
I am wondering, if you take your election forecasting computer, and plug in anti-iraq war, solid democratic candidate X, for Democrat, and Rudi Guilliani as Republican candidate.
We could still lose. Seeing the Democratic Party (seems to be) is squarely middle left now and certainly anti-iraq war now, it may not be a done deal that we'd get a lot of bush voters swinging to our candidate.
But if you plug in a "Ross Perot" as hypothetical Independent candidate (we'd have to find someone like a Ross Perot - that is, someone who would swing more Bush voters than Gore / Kerry voters,) I am wondering if the numbers might crunch like this:
Ind 15%
Rep 40%
Dem 45%
Which would just take some contributors on our side to put some money into the pot of such a hypothetical candidate. (Possibly even clandestinely recruiting such a person to play the double agent role.)
Now that's "taking the gloves off" aint it?
(Disclaimer - a more thorough analysis than my hypothesis would have to be done first of course to provide confidence in the "swinging more votes from the GOP than the DEM" of course.)