Since the election is coming up in two months, I thought we should have a thread for the lesser (in terms of popularity, anyway) candidates. I know there's already an Election 2012 thread, but that thread is a clusterfuck, to be honest. Besides, this board is practically dead anyway, so who cares?

Here are the other, non-Obama/Romney candidates I know of so far (with my stupid opinions attached):

Gary Johnson (Libertarian) - I like this guy. He has a lot of good social and foreign policy stances. Not too crazy about his fiscal policy, but I'm not a libertarian, so that's to be expected. He's still better than either of the frontrunners. Also former governor of New Mexico, so he has executive experience.

Jill Stein (Green) - According to the extremely simplified online political survey I took, my views line up with Stein's the most. She's a doctor with a degree from Harvard, and she's clearly intelligent. I like a lot of her views, though she's somewhat to the left of me - but I'm fine with that. I'm thinking of voting for her.

Rocky Anderson (independent?) - I think this guy might have a party, but if so it must be one of those "one-candidate" parties centered around just him. He's the former mayor of Salt Lake and a former Democrat who left the party in the 90s. Again, I like most of his stances: he's sort of like what a Democrat would have been in the 60s or 70s. Doesn't have a lot of name-recognition, though.

Buddy Roemer (independent) - former Republican, former congressman and governor of Louisiana. Roemer has a history of dealing with corruption, especially in his notoriously graft-ridden home state. He's a conservative, but again, he's better than either Obama or Romney, I think. In fact, all of the above are better than them. None of them have a hope in Hell of winning, but that's how it is.

Are there any other viable and interesting candidates running right now? I know about joke candidates like Vermin Supreme, but I guess they don't count, except for a laugh maybe.