Greens Go Nuts- Nominate opponent to Wellstone

[Nathan Newman]

Walking into the twilight zone of political insanity, (see
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0525-09.htm), the Green Party has
decided to run a candidate in Minnesota against Paul Wellstone , the most
progressive guy  in the Senate who is in the fight for his life this fall.
When Nader ran, the Greens at least had the argument that they were trying
to create a threat to force the Dems to articulate a progressive agenda.

But in Minnesota, just to run a candidate, any candidate, they have
nominated Ed McGaa who even the Greens are not sure even supports the Green
Party platform.  While there is some grumbling against Wellstone for his
response after Sept 11, McGaa actually supports the war on terrorism and his
proud of his 110 combat missions in Vietnam.  And he has engaged in nasty
canards of anti-semitism in arguing that Wellstone is  "more loyal to Israel
than he is to the United States."

The Greens argued that they differed from progressive Democrats in that they
would create an organization that could consistently elect good candidates.
What Minnesota shows is all they have created is an organization bent on
nominating spoiler candidates, whatever their politics.

Nathan Newman
nathan at newman.org
http://www.nathannewman.org