>At 10:54 AM -0400 22/7/05, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>>Which is the historic goal, to take power over selection from the "party
>>>bosses." The phenomenon of omeone like Ken Livingstone, popular with
>>>grassroots Labourites, being denied the nomination for mayor on the Labour
>>>tickett couldn't happen in the US. That's the good side of it all.
>>
>>Of course the bad side is that he'd never get elected here.
>
>On the contrary, popular celebrity candidates are the only kind that
>can get elected in the US.
Ken Livingstone = Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Doug