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GREEN WITHOUT ENVY (Howard Dean Ready to Bolt for Green Party)
The American Spectator ^
| February 9, 2004
| Washington Prowler
Posted on 02/09/2004 9:35:53 AM PST by bcopay
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and his advisors are looking into options that would allow him to run for President on the Green Party ticket should he fail in his bid to wrench the Democratic nomination away from Senator John Kerry.
Dean had been looking at the Green Party long before his campaign caught fire.
As early as late last summer, Dean was considering the Green Party as an option, particularly because at the time Ralph Nader, the Green nominee in 2000, appears lass interested in a run.
'This isn't a ploy to get the Democrats to pay attention to us, says a Deaniac in Washington.'
'This is about ensuring that our man's views and this supporters' views get carried into the fall campaign. A Green Party bid puts him into the debates with Bush and whomever the Democrats nominate. It keeps us viable.'
It would also, as the Deaniac pointed out, get the attention of Terry Maculiffe and the DNC pretty quick.
Dean is the first to brag he's brought in hundereds of thousands of new voters to the party-voters who would most likely would follow Dean to the Greens. He probably would generate more votes than Nader himself pulled in 2000, again dooming the Democrats to another loss.
Nader has not indicated what he will do in the 2004 camapaign. In the past three months he has twice pushed back a decision on whether he is running.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2004; bushwins; clark; dean; drdimento; drhealthyself; edwards; greenparty; kerry; perotreplay; thirdparty
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To: bcopay
This would be a dream come true.
BTW, American Spectator needs some proofreaders, big time; I saw 4 typos just in the excerpt you posted! This one is the most interesting:
Ralph Nader, the Green nominee in 2000, appears lass (emphasis mine) interested in a run.
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posted on
02/10/2004 11:25:04 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
To: nutmeg; PhiKapMom; thesummerwind
ping
182
posted on
02/10/2004 11:25:58 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
To: bcopay
Who's ego is bigger, Dean or Nader's?? (lol!) McCain's.
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posted on
02/10/2004 11:27:16 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
Comment #184 Removed by Moderator
To: OpusatFR
"I consider myself a super-Greenie and love Howard Dean with all my heart."
Please tell me you are being sarcastic.
BTW, Nadar was on the tube last week and said he might make a run at president but NOT with the Green Party.
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posted on
02/10/2004 11:53:42 AM PST
by
AuntB
(http://www.PetitionOnLine.com/SSDC/petition.html (reform Social Security Disability))
To: bcopay
A Green Party bid puts him into the debates with Bush and whomever the Democrats nominate.No it doesn't, unless the debates are also going to include the candidates of the Socialist Workers Party (maybe Dennis the Menace Kucinich), the Libertarians, the Communists, the Constitution(ists), and whatever is left of Ross Perot's "Reform" Party.
That being said, Howard Dean's name anywhere near a ballot next November 2 has got to be one of F'ing Kerry's worst nightmares. If no other place, it could put California in the President's pocket and that would make this whole project game, set, and match.
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posted on
02/10/2004 12:02:58 PM PST
by
katana
To: EggsAckley
Some people will believe
anything they read on the internet.
Sheesh!
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posted on
02/10/2004 4:07:22 PM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: bcopay
Dean/Nader
Anyone who truely cares about the environment, equality and the people, yet won't vote for that ticket is a despicable hypocrite
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posted on
02/10/2004 5:45:16 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(Vote Toomey April 27)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
he also said that he would only stay in race if he won Wisconsin. Then he said, oh never mind.
To: EGPWS
Nope, it's a ploy to get 2nd seat on the ticket.
Oh that wouldn't be so bad either.
To: chris1
But if Dean did indeed torpedo the democrats this year, that would be doing Clinton's work for them.
To: bcopay
Dear God, let this come to pass....please...I promise I won't play with fire anymore....today......
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posted on
02/10/2004 7:19:27 PM PST
by
TonyM
To: bcopay
Kerry would have to spend time campaigning against
Dean, maybe he would vote for the war again. hmmmmmmmm flip-flop time in simultaneity.
To: SandyInSeattle
Your right, the Green party must have a series of primaries.
To: bcopay
As we learned from the last democratic President, there is a big difference in what a candidate will say he's going to do, and then what he actually does. "President Clinton has kept all the promises he intended to keep"
-- George Stephanopolous, circa 1994.
To: George W. Bush
it would seem pretty hard for him to switch now. Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
To: MeekOneGOP
Hope he does run on the Green ticket and all the Hollywood libs and dykes, etc vote for him. Would be a great help, LOL.
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posted on
02/10/2004 8:51:52 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Whenever I feel 'blue', I start breathing again.)
To: theDentist
I PLEDGE $100.00!
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posted on
02/10/2004 8:52:07 PM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(FR banned by new software at work. I miss you guys!)
To: sinkspur
The kitten picture is hysterical (and scary--he might actually off the kitty)
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posted on
02/10/2004 9:15:48 PM PST
by
altura
To: rintense
I think you're right. I mean the swing against Howie was dramatic and no one can seem to explain it. From being 20 points ahead to Kerry, in one month he drops to 20 points behind. It's weird. It's a conspiracy. A vast left-wing conspiracy. That's it.
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posted on
02/10/2004 9:18:41 PM PST
by
altura
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