These guys have more trouble making up their minds about what they want than my first wife.

What is the platform de jour? This group is cracking up and will soon be down there cheek by jowl with the vegetarians and prohibitionists as far as political relevance is concerned.

Doesn't really stand for anything. I liked Jesse the mind Ventura though!

I agree with Justin 2 Krelian. They started out with hopes of becoming a party with national appeal. When Perot sat down the fighting began. They left their strong populist roots and backed fringe candidates that lead to a party split. What does the RP stand for? What is their platform? Where are their candidates and where is the appeal of 10 years ago? American's aren't that easily shifted, the RP just shifted too many ways too quickly that everyone got sick and returned to the two major parties where they will have a voice.

The party has no platform! They've gone from populist (Perot) to Somewhat Libertarian (Ventura) to Conservative (Buchanen) and now they're endorsing Nader.

this is what you get when you have a bunch of pissed off people who never vote canonize a billionaire pipsqueak who they know nothing about except that they saw him on larry king.

Not great, but their heart is in the right place. The major problem is the far lefty bleeding heart libs who use the media to knock the beleifs of the Reform party. Our country seems to think that the only way to improve is to give up and look for something new, instead of looking at what worked and making it better.

In sore need of reform, itself!

Go Pat Go!! Biggest issue for them is removing NAFTA, which is taking hundreds of thousands of jobs away from Americans and giving them to cheap laborers in third world.

Really had a window of opprotunity in 1992. You cannot build a party around the personality of one person, and Perot hindered mainstreaming the party. Now it is just a relic.

This was never even a true political party. It wasn't a grass roots ground swell of support for certain issues, nor was it a coalition of disaffected constituencies. It was the plaything of a crazed, egomaniac charlatan billionaire who had no business running for public office. His true talent was sucking away on the governmental teat. This so-called party had no real platform, no realistic goals, no true philosophy: this was just a diversion for an attention-seeking weirdo who felt like sullying the nation's political discourse. And he ended up folding like a cheap camera and fading into obscurity once the public got tired of his nonsensical and paranoid fantasies. The political bankruptcy of this so-called party was then refigured in the presence of "Pitchfork Pat" and that idiotic troublemaking Afro sister who masqueraded as a Vice Presiential candidate. America truly needs a bona fide, serious third party, an alternative to those two visionless, leadership-challenged and idea-bereft jokes known as the Dems and GOP, but it isn't going to come from this quarter. Too bad.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

The first thing that they need to reform is themselves.

hardline - NATIONALIST!

The Crazies.

It's a party whose prominent leaders don't seem to like or agree with each other: Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Jesse Ventura...I can't for the life of me figure out what this party stands for!

The Reform Party is the circus of U.S. political party system. Basically, the people there are the rejects of the two major political parties. Ross Perot, well, I can't believe this guy got 20 percent of the vote in 1992. When you put him up against George Bush Sr., there is no doubt that you can tell who was the more qualified leader. Perot didn't articulate any smart ideas during his campaign. He did that campaign only to get back at George Bush for perceived slights during the 1980's. Jesse Ventura is actually the only candidate there who actually has some mainstream, common-sense values. The rest of the party consists of a bunch of bozos who agree to disagree.

These "other" parties aren't known for really any ideas except for bigotry, ignorance, and intolerance (people like Buchanan).

The only thing I really like about it is the wide variety of politics. I mean, we have everybody from Pat Buchanan, the creature in the universe that I would most enjoy seeing boiled in oil, to Jesse Ventura, a former pro-wrestler who is now gov of Minnesota. However, Because Pat Buchanan is a vile, evil man, I don't really like anything that has to do with him. Or Ross Perot, for that matter.

This party has become a terrible joke. Their only virtue is showing how ludicrous current campaign laws are as the entire party went up for grabs, b/c they had "earned" a jackpot of taxpayer cash in the last election. So they wind up in a political wrestling match between a bunch of goons that can't get 2% of the country to agree with them.