2 | Dominique
May 13, 2008 at 1:36 am

Thank you for this list. This is great. Do you mind if I borrow it?

4 | Raymond V. Banner
May 13, 2008 at 10:54 am

It is quite a list of presidential candidates. People file to run for president of the United States out of ego, idealism and a combination of other motivations. Very few of these candidates, including some who will head the ticket for various minor political parties, will end up being listed on the ballots of most states.
I saw another list several weeks ago under “Politics 1- 2008 Presidential Candidates” as compiled by Ron Gunzburger. I don’t think Gunzburger’s list is as full as the one you cited, but Gunzburger
does organize some information for various third or minor parties
on both the left and the right. I am personally giving a little time and research to conservative third party and major independent candidates as I consider my voting options for the presidential election this November. So far I have not found any viable candidate that strongly appeals to my own classification as a generally traditonal conservative who has special concerns about the moral/social/cultural issues. It seems to me that Libertarianism
has taken over much of what used to be considered the political right, including heavy influence even in the Constitutional Party under Chuck Baldwin. I am not a Libertarian, as there are quite a number of libertines and what I consider positions bordering on political and social anarchy in the Libertarian movement, though I do not consider
either Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin as libertine in their own personal lives.