GREEN WITHOUT ENVY (Howard Dean Ready to Bolt for Green Party)

The American Spectator ^ | February 9, 2004 | Washington Prowler

[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.

[altura]

Can you make them go away?

Can you break a few fingers so they can't type?

I know you can.

[Verginius Rufus]

Howard Dean -- the new Red Green.

[CurlyDave]

Do I detect the hand of the Hildebeast? Guaranteed loss in 2004, 2008 is wide open for the beast.

Even better if she wins re-election to the senate in 2006, she keeps national exposure for a second shot in 2012 if she needs it.

[swampfox98]

What's that quote about how a scoundrel takes refuge with others like him?

[spacewarp]

The thing is, when Dean bolts for the Greens, even to get the 15% to participate in the debates, he'd have to get the status quo stick out of the tail of Zogby and the other polling groups. He could poll at 35% and the pollsters would keep calling until they found enough non-Dean voters, that there would be 14.99%. With a polling sample of 45000 where most polls are 654 in sample size.

Paul

[savedbygrace]

Now see this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077194/posts