[lbo-talk] Black Commentator on Dean campaign

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I don't care if the Dems get the executive and can do
nothing because of Congress. Nothing is better than
the pogrom we have going on now. If the Dems win,
though, it should also change the balance in the
Congress. If the Dems get a candidate early, he will
be pounded with negative ads. On the other hand, Dean
is getting savaged by his fellow Dems, so what's the
diff? Better they should be united among themselves
and getting pounded by the GOP rather than squabblung
and getting pounded by GOP. I think that Nader and 3d
Party candidates should concentrate purely on safe Dem
states. I have supported independent politics for 20
years, but not this year. I have no illusions about
the Dems. I do not thonk they will support our goals.
They will forcibly sodomize our constituencies and
sell us down the river. No matter: I will support any
Dem who has a chance of beating Bush this year. There
are genuinely lesser evils. I wouldn't do this with
Bush I or Dole or any ordinary Republican, but we are
dealing here with the demons of hell. Now's the time.

--- DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
> Yes!  Someone else making the "Expand the space for
> debate" argument! So 
> tonight I am musing on the following questions:
> 
> --Why the HECK do the Dems want to be in a hurry to
> settle on ONE candidate? 
> All that is going to happen to whoever gets
> identified as leader of the pack 
> is that person is going to get pounded wtih every
> form of negative ads and mud 
> for six months before the election! Or would a cynic
> just think that the 
> current also rans hope that if Dean is the front
> runner, the Bush machine will 
> pound him out of the picture before the convention
> to make room for one of the 
> also-rans?
> 
> --Even if a Democrat gets elected President, he /
> she is going to be 
> legislative toast if both houses of Congress are
> still controlled by the current 
> nutballs. Maybe I just troll in the wrong electronic
> ponds, but I have seen NOTHING 
> anywhere connected with either the various Dem
> campaigns or with, say, Nader, 
> that seems like a coherent strategy backed up by
> serious policy oomph to 
> elect people able to have a legislative impact. Does
> anyone want to wander around 
> in the questions:
>      Can Congressional push ride on Demo
> Presidential coattails alone or 
> shoud the struggle fro COngress have any impact on
> Presidential strategy?
>      What do we expect from Nader and / or the
> Greens as far as citizen 
> mobilizations and other impacts on Congress??????
> 
> Comments? Just curious!
> 
> DoreneC
> 

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