>In my mind, it's to support Kerry, but in a way that builds our own
>organizations and makes us stronger to oppose him down the road -- i.e.,
>starting one day after he takes office. Random example: There's a huge
>campaign right now to register a million new voters in Florida, focused on
>people of color and in conjunction with a ballot initiative to raise the
>state minimum wage. That's smart. It will help Kerry win, sure. But more
>importantly, it taps into the huge amount of energy and anger (and money) of
>the anti-Bush campaign and uses it to bring the prople any future
>third-party effort will need into the political process.
Excellent ideas. Is the WFP doing anything like that in New York?
>For the same reason I thought "Marxists for Dean," even if it was mostly a
>joke, captured the right spirit for approaching the presidental race.
Not mostly a joke - half a joke. And the joke component was mainly in the name, which sounds funny. The prospective members I had in mind were serious about their intentions though.
Doug