Remember The Moustache of Wisdom's failed campaign to get a "centrist" to run?
Thomas Friedman predicted: (warning: Mindnumbing link) "A viable, centrist, third presidential ticket, elected by an Internet convention, is going to emerge in 2012. ... Americans Elect plans to ... remove the barriers to real competition, flatten the incumbents and let the people in."
Of course, this was always very strange, because Obama is a centrist and the notion that anyone could run on nearly the same platform and compete over a sitting president is silly.
But enough people have drunk the Kool-Aid that Obama is a soshulist, I guess, including the Douchestache of Wisdom. But, since we all know the real requirement for a "third-party candidate" is a moderate Republican, it seems to me that the ideal candidate would have been Mitt Romney, before he started spouting all of the right-wing crap he has to win the primary.
Plus, he has the money.
When he's crying in his magic undies on Super Tuesday wondering where it all went wrong, knowing that his choices are to put Santorum on the ticket and lose 40 states or lose the nomination entirely, he'll wish he had just lost a la Perot instead of a la Goldwater.