another quixotic candidate

What is it that drives a man (and they're most often men) to run a hopeless political campaign? This time it's Gene Chapman, seeking the Libertarian, Constitutional, and Southern Party nominations for POTUS. Chapman is a former truck driver and trucking safety activist with some big--and kooky--ideas for transforming politics. The best one:

Require by law all public officials, elected and otherwise, to blog all official daily activities, allowing reader comments in order to maintain a two way dialogue between We The People of The United States and our servant government.

The worst ones:

The Elder Court System: To return law back to the community, I propose to return most or all of the American court system back over to supervision by religious communities in the local areas where the crimes and many of the criminals reside, so an individual may be tried and judged by those holding the same theistic or non-theistic values as the accused.

The Checkerboard Plan: If a world conflict is serious enough to risk the life of one American footsoldier, it's big enough to use a nuclear bomb, I say. Therefore, I propose to call our troops home from the 130 countries around the world where they are now, reassign footsoldiers to other jobs and form a global nuclear web, allowing the President and other top military personel to target and destroy 50 quare mile areas of the planet, when absolutly required to stop a larger problem. (This should all but end low level conventional tinkering by the U. S. Government around the world.)

The kookiest one:

The King Solomon Solution: As King Solomon proposed the division of the item in dispute between two people while allowing neither the upper hand, so I propose that the international community buy out the Jews and Palestinians and move their land on barges to opposite ends of the earth to shut down the conflict. This will allow a two state solution at a distance. It is the only solution short of unending war between the parties that does not seem to me to violate the religions of any party.

These might be okay ideas in a brainstorm, but when making the leap to official platform status they require refinement or rejection as implausible, impossible, or insane.

Have I mentioned how much I love American politics?



(No, I'm not on a vendetta against one-man political parties. I stumble into them by accident, honest. Read about local quixotic candidate Jed Whittaker here.)