To be totally honest, for the first 30 seconds or so as I was reading the story I was sure this was some kind of joke. Not because of anything specific against McAfee, but because of how many candidates there are.<p>Shit, maybe Colbert or John Stewart (or John Oliver) should run for president too. Everyone else is, and it would help fun each respective show, and perhaps could even be leveraged to demonstrate the impact of money in politics.
He doesn't have the energy or sensible plans.<p>Sanders + Lessig appears to be the current best hope for the U.S. and world causes.<p>PS: He's coming off as a Byronic attention-queen at this point, and that makes me embarrassed and ashamed on his behalf. He could be fighting for sensible privacy open-source projects with nonpartisan advocacy and security foundations for the public good. Instead, it's the heroin-rattled rockstar "what sh&t will he say today" celebrity narcissism-cult routine rather than planning to "get sh&t done."
Ya know, I <i>might</i> be willing to support McAfee, depending on his actual positions. But right now, my feeling is that his campaign has zero chance of winning, simply because he's doing this "start your own party" thing. And realistically, he'll struggle to simply get on the ballot in enough states to have a mathematical chance of winning - especially starting this late in the game.<p>I don't know. <i>Maybe</i> a year is enough time to build a party infrastructure, run ballot access petitions, etc, IF he has a ton of his own money he's willing to throw at the problem. But color me skeptical.<p>Personally, I think he'd have been better off pursuing the Libertarian Party nomination, if he doesn't support the Democrats or Republicans. Curious to know if he decided to go a different direction on ideological grounds (maybe he hates Libertarians, who knows?) or something else.
I can't help but to question his claim of fear of enforcement when he was wanted for connection with a homicide. I mean you created the company McAfee and you are an American, you are wanted by Belize police but you are scared the police would kill you? I mention American here because I don't think Belize police would dare to kill an American during investigation and wage an international diplomatic controversy. Just my cynical way of thinking about being an American.