American Pirate Party Gaining Steam on Reddit

At FireDogLake, Jim Moss is following developments surrounding the creation of an American Pirate Party at Reddit:

In the wake of the Brown-Coakley disaster, an interesting development has occurred today on the social news site reddit. About noon Eastern time, a post appeared on the "politics" sub-reddit which said this:   "America, we need a third party that can galvanize our generation. One that doesn’t reek of pansy. I propose a U.S. Pirate Party."

As it turns out, there is already a U.S. Pirate Party (go figure), so the name was quickly changed to The American Pirate Party. And a skeleton platform was presented . . . Almost immediately, the post took off.  As of this posting just 10 hours later, it had collected more than 4200 upvotes and 2600 total points. Soon after, a sub-reddit called "AmericanPirateParty" was created, and it already has more than 850 subscribers. Also, there’s a Facebook group with 140 members and a Digg submission with 71 diggs. All of these totals are quickly rising.