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June 26, 2004Greens Refuse to Endorse NaderBy Andrew DobbsGreat news coming from the Associated Press regarding the Green Party convention in Minneapolis this weekend:
This is great news for Democrats. Nader has been working for several months now and has yet to secure ballot access in any state. Of those 7 Reform Party states, the most critical of them all- Florida- is likely to leave his name off as their rules stipulate that the party must have a convention to get the candidate's name on the ballot while the Reform Party simply had a conference call (far cry from Perot's almost 20% in 1992). Furthermore, the convention was full of division between Nader backers and Cobb supporters which suggests that the party might be headed towards disintegration. Ralph Nader is quickly becoming a meaningless figure in the race and the Green Party is on the rocks. In other news, now of the 4 largest political parties in the country 3 of them have Texans on the ballot. GOP nominee George W. Bush, Libertarian nominee (and Buda native) Michael Badnarik and Green Party nominee David Cobb. Let's hope that we have no Texans in the White House in January! Posted by Andrew Dobbs at June 26, 2004 07:28 PM | TrackBack
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As a loyal Texan, I reluctantly second your hope .... too bad our state can't come up with a truly honest, far-sighted, progressive candidate for president. I would love to see another Texan in the White House! Posted by: Rose from Dallas at June 26, 2004 09:46 PMThe wars of the two Bushes and LBJ are not enought for you? Posted by: Keith G at June 27, 2004 09:06 AMIf i'm not mistaken brother Jeb's SoS has already ruled the reform parties little teleconference a national convention, which means Nader will be on the ballot in Florida. Maybe i'm missing some new news, but i think that's correct. Posted by: Tek_XX at June 27, 2004 09:43 PMFurthermore, the convention was full of division between Nader backers and Cobb supporters which suggests that the party might be headed towards disintegration. Ralph Nader is quickly becoming a meaningless figure in the race and the Green Party is on the rocks. I too was pleased with the Greens' decision. We absolutely must defeat Bush this year, and unlike Nader, David Cobb understands this and will do most of his campaigning in "safe states." Even if lightning strikes and Cobb's longest-of-shots campaign takes off, he won't throw the race to Bush. But I disagree that this shows the Green Party is "on the rocks," and I object to the obvious tone of schadenfreude in your post. In the long term, it does liberals no good if the choice in Presidential campaigns is always between a moderate-to-conservative Democrat and a rightwing-nutjob Rethuglican. The Democrats can't hold the White House forever; even if Bush loses, eventually we will have another Rethuglican (as opposed to merely Republican) President unless we can back this country away from the far Right. While the Greens will never have much electoral success under this country's election laws, they are here to stay and they are on our side! The sooner we Democrats realize that, the sooner true liberals will start winning Presidential elections. Posted by: Mathwiz at June 29, 2004 10:52 AMYou ought to give serious consideraton to Badnarik: www.badnarik.org Posted by: Susan Hogarth at July 6, 2004 06:17 PM
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