The line item veto was law for two years in the 90's, judged by the supreme court to be unconstitutional in 1998. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/25/scotus.lineitem/
I didn't say "easy" solutions, I said "real" solutions. Big difference. An Easy solution to crime is that everyone should stop breaking the law. That does about as much as "stop voting for idiots"
It's not a fallacy. Take it from someone who has voted for third-party candidates and marginal candidates before. When it's over I felt like I wasted my vote. Once the primaries have winnowed the candidates down to two, with a scattering of marginal candidates on the ballot, it's important to affect the election by voting for one of them. Else, you are effectively not voting. Sometimes its important to vote against someone, even if you don't love your choice much. Ralph Nader's token campaign in 2000 took enough votes away from the Democrats to put George Bush in the White House! Token votes to register your desire for a better party just don't measure up to much in the real world. It's going to take a grass-roots effort between elections to get a third-party candidate through the primaries with a credible support base. Then is when it is effective to vote for them.
Well I don't agree with your opinion. When I vote for 3rd party I feel like at least I am part of the group trying to change American for the better not the worst.
Ron Paul is missing the foreign policy experience necessary to perform as a leader of the free world. However, recall that Ross Perot recieved nearly 19% of the popular vote in 1992. It could happen.
