<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Libertarian Blue Boy</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">In a message dated 10/4/02 2:13:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ap888@lafn.org writes:</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Thank you, I think. Let me restate my points:</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">This guy, Mr Kelleher, the guy with the huge eyebrows, has been running singlehandedly for one office after another SINCE I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL in MT.  ALL I can remember about his many campaigns, besides the number of them and his single-mindedness, is the eyebrows. That alone says something I THINK about his credibility as a candidate. I do not watch debates; maybe he adds a certain "je ne sais quoi" on the podium...</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Naively, I expect candidates in a democracy to be able to mobilize some kind of following and to interact with whatever mechanisms there are to get anything done. All this guy seems to have going for him is his eyebrows, and some kind of persistence. Maybe I am misreading something about the situation,  but the fact that he is running as a Green Party candidate and does not even show up on the MT Green Party website list of candidates adds to his aura of isolation.</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Why else does this matter? Consider the perennial image of Greens as spoilers. This year's MT Senate race will be close under any circumstances. In my rich fantasy life, I would love for credible alternatives to the two mainstream parties or for forces that give mainstream candidates more backbone for some positions. Instead the ballot has the Libertarian Blue Boy and Mr. Green Party with the enormous eyebrows. Oddly enough, maybe humorous and harmless are the best that can be hoped for in that race.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">DoreneC</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>It still doesnot make any sense to me.</div> <div>Why pick out a physical characteristic at all?</div> <div>Are you fat or maybe not pretty as some definers of pretty would have it? Do you have died hair or some such thing where someone could hold that up to others in the way you have with "Mr. Eyebrows?'  Why even go there?</div> <div>Marta</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Marta Russell<br> Los Angeles, CA<br> http://www.disweb.org</div> </body> </html>