Now you know why I say: "I Like RALPH!!!"
Neither of these factions has much respect for anybody's viewpoint if it does not coincide with their own. Awfully hard to keep up a dialogue that has any civil conclusion then.
LOL! (Let 'em stew in their own ignorance.)
I believe that my strength is that I will be the strongest opponent to combat the two major party candidates. Except for education level, their backgrounds are totally opposite of mine. For this unusual time span in our history, they are both very, very vulnerable. I can write and I can speak. I can hurt them and from my warrior past, and some strong advisors, I know where to attack their weaknesses. People are now uniquely patriotic. If you wear a flight jacket, they come up and touch it. They follow you out of theaters asking respectful questions and thank you for your service unlike the past. Governor Ventura has well demonstrated that a particular, unique and memorable candidate can defeat major party prospects who bear the same tired Good ol' Boy faces with the same materialistic 'easy issue' crime/education/no taxes rhetoric. Governor Ventura has also demonstrated that a special candidate can put his party and office on the world map. If the Green Party can find an individual, with more qualifications than I, I will readily support him or her. My books are not a bad life to go back to.
Whatever, I hope that the Greens are going into this race with the philosophy that you can win it with the right candidate and not let party politics diffuse your selection. An entire world is at stake. A Green Senator can turn the entire Nation the way the numbers in the senate stack up. It is highly important who you select.
deal with it..
You know I came back to the fold hoping something had changed. That maybe the dems had learned the hard way you can't ignore labor and environmentalists forever and expect left support. Faux DLC "liberalism" might have worked in the early 90's but if you go around in camoflague long enough don't be suprised when you get mistaken for well...a Bush.
The Greens have to take certain percentages in different states to stay alive and keep party status. There is a more complex game plan here than ousting Waxman or Wellstone, but I'm sick of trying to explain real world politics, staying on ballots, securing matching funds and another of other real considerations of which minor party effects will not go away no matter how much you chant "Nader bahhhhhhhhhhd" to a bunch of mouthbreathing fools that hold beliefs absolutely 180 from what their political party supports and I could give a damn what mod dems think.
Get pissed, prepare to keep getting pissed. The green party was nothing when the Dems stood for something, now it's just the party that doesn't want to ban abortion and only kowtows to the religious right for presidential elections where the dems get to act like the moral strongarm on Hollywood.
Throw ANWR in my face, I dare you. There was an administration that opened up large areas of northern Alaska for drilling and it's not the one that just tried and failed.
I always figured that most democrats weren't horribly happy with the leadership and it's DLC strategy. That maybe 2k was a wake up call. I was wrong, it's swing voters that are the audience. The disaffected Perotistas, (of which Nader did one hell of alot better than Buchanan at scraping up even though Buchanan was reform party)
You say "Nader makes you sick"? Fu*king Al Gore makes me want to vomit and watching supposedly progressive people stump for him makes me feel like slitting my wrists. I've about hit the point where helping throw elections until the dems are a footnote in history like the bull-moose party, sounds pretty damn good. I didn't get that way listening to Nader, I got it by listening to the Gorestapo until I have come to hate you people worse than republicans. At least republicans don't bitch about people who actually want change, instead of just talking about it and then voting for the party that will take them for granted while courting the right with compromise.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved
Does anybody rememeber a certain motor-mouthed psychotic multmillionaire named Ross Perot, and his the election of a certain sleezy Arkansas disbarred lawyer (and his crooked attorney thunder thighed wife)?
Liberal totalitarians, like the loathsome author of the above diatribe, truly detest democracy.
Does anybody rememeber a certain motor-mouthed psychotic multmillionaire named Ross Perot, and his critical role in the election of a certain sleezy Arkansas disbarred lawyer (and his crooked attorney thunder thighed wife)?
Liberal totalitarians, like the loathsome author of the above diatribe, truly detest democracy.