Unity ’08 Seeks Bipartisan Ticket

A group backing a bipartisan U.S. presidential ticket for the 2008 election said it expects to gain support from disappointed and disaffected primary voters.

Unity ’08 will gain from the fallout of the accelerated presidential primary schedule, which will be a giant bar fight, Robert Bingham, an Internet entrepreneur who is Unity ’08′s chief executive officer, told The Washington Times.

The group, which will nominate candidates online, doesn’t plan to produce a presidential-vice presidential ticket until June 2008 when the state primaries end.

The idea of a bipartisan ticket began in 2005 when former presidential aides Doug Bailey, Gerald Rafshoon and Hamilton Jordan decided to stop complaining about the political system and do something about it, the Times reported Tuesday.

The group, according to its Web site, is recruiting delegates, forming its rules, gaining access to the ballot in all 50 states and setting an agenda and a platform, the Times said.