[Bud]

Lessig should do something useful and realistic, instead of this grandstanding and pretending that he can go from zero-to-President in 2.4 seconds as if politics were some sort of Tesla. It's embarrassing.

To wit: he should run for the House, or Senate, or he should support candidates who are in favor of overturning Citizens United (i.e., Democrats).

[zeckalpha]

Uh, the PAC he started does the candidate support, but he can't be associated with it while running as president.

[tptacek]

Zephyr Teachout took over the PAC because Lessig's management of the PAC --- and the PAC itself --- was widely regarded as a total failure. That's not my opinion; it's the reporting on Mayday PAC.

[Bud]

Great. I agree with that, of course. And perhaps if he wasn't wasting millions of dollars of donor money on running for President, his PAC could do more good.

What if Lessig actually won? It wouldn't matter at all. You think the Republican Congress is going to pass sweeping campaign finance reform? Jesus Christ could return and be President and he wouldn't be able to make that happen, either. Lessig surely understands our system well enough to know this. So why is he doing this very expensive pretending that him being President will cause any change? If a Democrat in the White House could magically fix this, Obama would fix it right now.

[zeckalpha]

What would he need congress for? Some people run just to change the conversation, not to win.

[hga]

In fact, that's been a successful third party tactic in times past: get successful enough and one or the other major parties will absorb it and much of its platform.