more on Nader Announces ’04 Run

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: John Adams <jadams01 () sprynet com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:24:22 
To:dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Nader Announces &#146;04 Run

What's interesting about this is how clearly it shows the failure of 
the Green/Nader alliance of 1996 and 2002. Nader was nominally running 
to help build the Green Party. After two such presidential runs, the 
Green Party's nomination is unremarkable--Terry McAullife isn't trying 
to keep the Greens from running a candidate, and he probably 
understands that the weakness of the Green Party makes a non-celebrity 
Green presidential candidate a wash in the presidential race and a 
slight plus down the ticket for the Democrats in every race where there 
is not a Green candidate, which is almost every partisan race in the 
country. Nader running as an independent is a threat, however, and 
McAullife treats it as such.

The Greens don't have the skills to pay the bills. Those of us who 
favor some of the Green platform need to face the fact that the Green 
Party isn't capable of implementing it, not because of media bias, or 
two-party domination of the electoral system, or whatever other excuse, 
but because the Greens don't have a strategy for overcoming these 
obstacles.

All the best,

        John A
        see me fulminate at http://www.jzip.org/

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