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I do not know much about Mr. Whittemore’s favorite (Mr. Walker), but I do know that Buddy Roemer would be a disaster as the nominee for Americans Elect and for America.

I am writing this rather long and detailed Reply because I am afraid that AE will nominate Mr. Roemer rather than Mr. Walker or some other candidate.

Buddy Roemer is the best talker in the presidential election campaign. When I heard him speak I was impressed and became a supporter and donated to his campaign. When he switched to Americans Elect after receiving a pathetic 4/10 of 1% vote in the New Hampshire primary, however, I started to do research about him. He is not the wonderful candidate that he appears to be.

He has adopted a technique often used by political demagogues. He relies on the dissatisfaction of the American public toward politicians. His strategy is to attack everyone in politics and the whole system and then have the public presume that he will be able to fix it. He condemns politics and all other leading politicians in order to present himself as someone different — an honest politician.

The trick Mr. Roemer uses is to attack the system for faults that almost everyone will accept and agree. That is like betting the sun will rise tomorrow. He can’t lose. (See the 1987 NY Times article about Buddy, cited below, where he says he uses his poker technique in politics). He claims the system is corrupt and all other politicians are corrupted. He is betting that because he is so effective at stating the problem, the public will assume that he is the solution.

The real question is not whether there should be campaign finance reform, as Buddy harangues with convincing ferocity. The question is whether Buddy is the man who can and will fix it. To answer that question, we need to look at his history to learn if he really was as good a congressman and governor as he claims.

Many people accept everything Buddy says about himself as true (as I did). That is a dangerous assumption when dealing with a politician. Let’s look at the record.

He has invented a false conspiracy theory for the reason he was not invited to any debate. The debates were run by the networks and they set the rules, not the Republican party. The networks announced that the candidates must have received only 1% at least on several national polls (as the debates went on, they increased the thresholds). These minimum, totally objective standards have been used since the 1960′s. They keep the debates relevant and meaningful by keeping out candidates who have no significant campaign or following and would only detract from the serious candidates. Buddy sometimes claims he had 4% or 5% on national polls and at other times he will say 2%, but they still would not let him on. The truth is that he never met the reasonably set minimum standards on the national polls. If he had 4%, as he falsely claims, he would have been on all the debates.

Roemer says he is an honest politician who cannot be bought. However, his actions speak with greater honesty than his words. He is seeking the nomination of Americans Elect because he wants to be bought. This appears to be a set-up job with Roemer’s mentor Lessig on the Board. Go to irregulartimes.com and look at their articles on Americans Elect.

Roemer talks against corruption and argues for transparency, then seeks the AE nomination, effectively using AE’s $20 – $30 million financed by unknown donors to launch his campaign. He limits contributions to $100 because he does not need it. AE will provide the funds.

Roemer did the same thing in the past. In 1991 he was such a bad governor that he could not hope to be re-elected as a Democrat, so he cut a deal with the Republican party to switch to Republican if they would finance his campaign. See this history:
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/0.....president/

In 1987 he won election because he could mesmerize the crowd with his preacher-like talk condemning corrupt politics. But once elected, he did not have a clue how to govern. His personality is that of a loner, a curmudgeon, damning the world with such passion and skill using his “Buddy Talk.” See this fascinating history as to how he struggled to try to figure out what to do as governor. The author tried to make a flattering story about Roemer, but you can see as you read it that Roemer is a strange, unbalanced person who has no ability to serve in any high public office. http://www.hamiltonmixon.com/Ballad.pdf

Raymond D. Strother, a professional political consultant who was hired by Roemer to guide his last successful campaign in 1987 calls Roemer “a misfit.”
http://www.sentinelsource.com/.....d9fa0.html

Buddy Roemer turned out to be one of the worst governors in Louisiana history. He could not get along with people. He could not put together a competent staff. He lacked the political common sense and ability to pass legislation. He did not work hard and seemed to love the adoration of his campaign followers but had no ability to govern. To see Buddy’s ineffective record as governor and congressman look at this excellent history of Louisiana’s governors, pages 259-268:
http://books.google.com/books?.....38;f=false

As a congressman he was inept. He chaired no committees and did not author any significant legislation. His only accomplishment in Congress was that he won money at poker. Yes, he was a convincing bluffer.
A NY Times article from 1987 describes Mr. Roemer’s record as a poker player, his only achievement in his eight years in Congress.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06.....038;src=pm

Mr. Roemer plans to resume his successful poker career if he returns to Washington as President. Note his statement in this article, the fourth paragraph from the end, beginning with “If elected,”:
http://www.postandcourier.com/.....orruption/
He says he “would emphasize listening and working in a bipartisan way, through poker games.” Incredible!

Recently Roemer admitted that when he was a Congressman he hardly did any work. Instead, he spent his time either playing or thinking about Fantasy Baseball (when he was not playing poker). See this video at 1:24 to 1:49
http://www.ultimatesportstalk......-baseball/

Most of the things Buddy says about his past are false. See this web page where he obtained a reputation in Louisiana as a liar (that continues to today) who did it because he enjoyed seeing if he could get away with it.
http://www.first-draft.com/201.....d-man.html

A political journalist on Louisiana’s leading newspaper jibes Mr. Roemer for his exaggerations and falsehoods:
http://www.nola.com/opinions/i.....uisia.html

A PPP poll of Louisiana voters, just released, shows that here in his own home state he has the worst rating of any candidate for president. Two out of three of the people who know him best have an unfavorable opinion of him. (28% favorable, 56% unfavorable). He is Louisiana’s UNfavorite son. See http://race42012.com/2012/03/2.....ry-survey/

If you will read all of the citations above, you will see that I am not making this stuff up. Roemer has to be the worst public official that I have ever studied. I thought I was a critical, intelligent voter, but even I was, for a time, fooled by Roemer’s fancy talk.

Americans have been deceived by slick politicians in the past. Let’s try to investigate what candidates have done rather than gullibly accept what they say. Buddy Roemer will not withstand that scrutiny.

http://americasthirdparty.com/AmericansElectDavid

http://www.usatoday.com/news/p.....titialskip

Click on the link below for the complete National Journal report -

http://decoded.nationaljournal.....threat.php

Here’s why I ask -

Read the CNN article titled “Trump pulls out of debate”. You may have to scroll down to see it.

http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....21011.html