Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. I'm your host, Andrew Heaton.

Last election, I very nearly started my own super pack.

Lizzard people for common sense. Almost entirely because I thought the name was funny.

And it'd be great if that was on fine print at the bottom of a screen during a television ad.

I went to the FCC's website and printed off the forms, thought about creating the whole

thing, but then I got distracted.

Also, beyond registering a funny name, I wasn't really sure what I would do with it.

I have since then come up with a much better idea, which is Joker Pack.

You know that scene in Batman, where Joker lights an entire pile of money on fire and the other criminals freak out?

Picture that, because my idea for the Super Pack is to seek out close elections in battleground states and then very intentionally fund a spoiler

candidate.

Libertarian, Green, Reform, United Garden Home Party.

Ideally, a genial former governor who could get 15% or so,

enough that the Republican and Democratic parties would flip out and scream spoiler, because in my view that's just about the only

thing we're ever going to do that can get ranked choice voting. Scare the powers

that be into adopting it to protect themselves.

I also tried to run for it to protect themselves.

I also tried to run for vice president in the last election on the wig party ticket.

I was the top of the ticket, incidentally.

We didn't have a presidential candidate seemed

kind of egotistical to run for president at all in my opinion and I listen to too much

Prairie Home Companion as a kid for that kind of self-aggrandizement. Also, think president sounds like kind of a hassle, whereas being vice president

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