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...issue of The New Republic, Sanford Levinson and Doris Kearns plead for the creation of a third party in 1968. An independent anti-war candidate for President, they argue, could "displace" enough of the regular Democratic vote to elect a moderate Republican like Charles Percy...
Whatever the merit of this objective, their plan for achieving it is internally ridiculous. If the Republicans do nominate Percy--and Levinson and Miss Kearns concede neither Nixon nor Romney would be a meaningful improvement on the incumbent--then who is to say a third party would benefit him? Is it not equally logical that the existence of such a party would split the anti-war vote in two and deprive the Republicans of their chance to beat LBJ? Certainly Levinson and Miss Kearns are not the only opponents of the war who would prefer to see a moderate Republican...
...irony of the Levinson-Kearns thesis is that it could work if the G.O.P.--as seems all too probable--nominates an out-and-out hawk. In that case, with President Johnson running feebly as the candidate of "restraint," a third party could make mincemeat of the Democratic vote and deliver up Richard Nixon...
...Doug Levinson composed the incidental jazz and plays it on the piano. His work is professional, if somewhat pedestrian, and interesting enough to hold you listening between lines...
...sorry they're making this decision in private instead of releasing a public statement of their own expressing opposition," Levinson said. "At least that would focus discussion on the subject...