I figured this would happen

http://www.unity08.com/

Last year I briefly participated in the discussions conducted on Unity08's website. I figured something like this would happen.

I could never get any of my emails to Unity08 even acknowledged, let alone answered and other participants had the same experience.

Every offer I made to volunteer for Unity08 (despite my misgivings regarding the organization's likely platform) was likewise never acknowledged.

Many of the participants routinely complained about the slow pace at which the founders of Unity08 were dealing with the logistics of creating rules of procedure that would lead to the nomination of a presidential ticket. Now we know that the founders never had any intention of nominating a presidential ticket.

The main thrust of the discussions at Unity08 was campaign finance reform, i.e., public financing of political candidates despite the fact that several participants warned that a campaign so narrowly focused on one issue was bound to fail.

The founders of Unity08 were insistent that the organization was only concerned with the presidential election; they had no concept that if the Unity08 ticket were to be elected every Republican and Democrat in Congress would blame it for their party's defeat in the 2008 presidential election and thus would not be interested in anything that the Unity08 president wanted to accomplish.

Unity08 was supposed to be about bringing Republicans and Democrats together, but the greatest majority of the participants at Unity08 were decidedly liberal, giving me the impression that the organization was really a front for the Democrat Party.