At one point it had a Marxist faction (Dunno who ran the show...), a paleoconservative faction (Pat Buchanan), and paleolibertarian fcation (Ross Perot), and a left-libertarian faction (Jesse "The 'Mind'...lol" Ventura).
John Haglin of the Natural Law Party against Pat Buchanan. It was a very hostile situation. The reform platform is broad enough to cover liberals or conservatives.
I am not up on the entire history of the Reform party however.
Perot started it and the Bushes (rightly) blamed Perot as a spoiler for Republicans. They sent in Buchanan to derail the party, and he did a bang up job.
Gave him and his VP candidate a ride in my taxicab back during the '92 election.
Did you ever read the platform of the Natural Law party? Quite the trip, actually. They seem to want to govern via a combination of quantum physics theories and Transcendental Yogic philosophy. I kid you not (at least that's what he was talking about in '92).
I'll be generous to him (since he gave me a good tip), and say that the Natural Law Party is a bit "before it's time."
the other major parties are little different so why should they be ?
The point of the reform party was to serve a populist theme for people fed up with the rampant corruption of the major parties. Thats going to draw a pretty mixed bag.
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