A reader takes issue with Paul Johnson’s Forbes piece:

“As much as I respect Paul Johnson, he’s wrong on this. Without parties, we get the equivalent of the California governor’s recall election with hundreds of candidates in every election. The only folks with a chance of winning are the rich and/or famous (like certain movie stars). This would also give even more power to the lefty media in controlling what people know about candidates. Is this what we want – more rich lefties in office? We need what is the equivalent of a tournament system to whittle the choices down for folks that aren’t political junkies. I’m as frustrated with the Republicans as anyone, but the Republicans are still the party of the Right and the Democrats the party of the Left. I personally wish the Libertarians would take off and the Democrats join with the Greens and slowly go the way of the Whigs, so the two-party system would be the Libertarians and the Republicans, but this isn’t going to happen soon.”