UPDATED: How best to promote RP's 3rd party initiative:

***** VoteBuddy.org site updated today! *****

What follows is a strategy you can use to convince voters to dump the major parties and vote their consciences as Ron Paul argued at his press conference at the National Press Club on Sept. 10.

With characteristic brilliance, Ron Paul took aim at the disease rather than the symptom. The problem isn't that 3rd parties aren't successful, or that the majors are corrupt. The problem is that Americans don't vote their consciences and make it stick. (The "making it stick" part requires election reform; for now I'm talking about voter habits.)

The political duopoly has been running the same "good cop/bad cop" con on us for a long, long time. The two cops are on the same team, but pretend to have different agendas in order to get cooperation from their pigeons. Pigeons will differ as to which cop is the good one -- the one who promises to mess them up less than his partner.

At the National Press Club event, one questioner identified himself as Sam Husseini, and I immediately knew who he was (and suspected what he would say). Sam and I have both promoted an idea that is tailor made to help voters break away from the duopoly.

Sam described this strategy: A reluctant Republican and a disgusted Democrat would normally hold their noses and vote for their party's candidate, only because they hated the other candidate more. (That fact is what has trapped voters into doing the same thing, election after election, while hoping each time for different results -- Einstein's definition of insanity). In order to free themselves to vote for candidates they REALLY like without worrying about the horse race between the majors, here's what they do.

They get together and agree, "I won't vote for my rotten Republican if you won't vote for your dirty Democrat, and then we can each vote our consciences for a change!"

Note that by taking one vote away from each major party candidate, nothing changes in that horse race. With this buddy system, votes can be liberated two by two across the country, no longer hostage to the duopoly's con game.

For details, see Sam's website, votepact.org, or visit my site, VoteBuddy.org. Sam's site is more up-to-date and has more comprehensive offerings, while I think my site gives a user-friendlier explanation of the strategy.

I think you can see how this strategy can help convince voters that they don't need to keep voting for the lesser evil, and have a way to vote their consciences with peace of mind. They'll be ready to join our political reform movement!

Please keep bumping this post. I'll see if I can get it up on Digg, too.