A NEW CANDIDATE?

Politico.com, the vibrant and innovative political instrument on the Internet, is toying with an idea that would prick the sensibilities of even the die-hard supporters in both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Given the present political turmoil in Washington D.C., between Congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama, a third party candidate for the 2012 general election would be preferable.

It is suggesting a few influential citizens, like Erskine Bowles, who has extreme expertise in budgets and financial figures; Hillary Clinton, the present Secretary of State, and also having the support of a highly acclaimed family with the means and wherewithal; John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, "a company that makes the infrastructure of the Web tick."; and Condoleezza Rice, who was in the Bush Cabinet, and showed a great deal of political strength in her work with foreign countries (as Secretary of State); among others, to stake out their reputation, and as independent candidates pit against Obama.

These are strong and individual minded people who have made it in business, politics and finance; and who will be able to lead the country out of the economic morass that it finds itself.

The newness of a fresh face will add a great deal of momentum to what many people are thinking of, the financial direction the Obama administration is headed, and the stiff opposition that the Conservative Republicans are putting up against it. All that must go and make room for a new kind of political environment.

What happened a few months ago, in the debt ceiling and deficit reduction issues have divided the opinions of even common people to such an extent that nothing can ever be done to patch the differences between the two parties.

The Supercommittee that has come about as a result of the talks to get America out of default in its payments toward its financial obligations, is not a surety for a solution to the crisis.

The country is being pulled apart to the extremes, and therefore a centrist, one who can coordinate the policies of both parties, will be a perfect choice.

However, with all that said, who can vouch or even say that, if it happens that way, that the voters are fed up with what the main political institutions are engaged in, a never ending conflict scenario, things will not get worse with a new president?

Presently, it is hard to find out who the Conservative challenger will be; whether it is Romney, or Perry, or Cain or even Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor.

He has refused to join in the race for the presidency, on behalf of a large portion of the GOP, who in a sense has been forcing him to add himself to the slew of contestants vying for position to be nominated as the party's representative. Nobody knows how long he will resist, because the pressure is still on him to change his mind.

Again, the White House is fervently pushing the president's new plan, which he presented to a joint session of the U.S. Congress last month, and he is running helter skelter to promote it to his political base and the country. However, it is stalled in the most important places, as the painted-over rock, with a discriminatory and diabolical name in a hunting camp in Texas; mainly in the U.S. House of Representatives in particular, and in Congress as a whole.

Now, talking about divisiveness and polarization in the country, bringing in a third party candidate will rather exacerbate the prevailing conditions; as politicians are digging their heels in, with respect to their beliefs, and the president pressing hard to foment his "America Jobs Act" proposals.

So though, a new person must not be ruled out, as it cannot; but the country must remain solid in its fight to come out of a near fiscal recession that is making both the business world and ordinary citizens so uncomfortable.

In that fight, both the government and the opposition have the responsibility to join their efforts in finding common ground, and to reach compromises they need to solve the country's problems. That is what the country must strive and hope for. Not a third party challenger.

Adhering to party policies alone is not getting the U.S. anywhere, politically and economically, of course.