<BR><BR><B><I>Jerry Monaco <monacojerry@gmail.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div>On 8/10/06, Carl Remick <CARLREMICK@HOTMAIL.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> [Boy, no one's going to outflank you guys on the left, nosirree! But let's<BR>> not forget what we're up against with Likudnik Lieberman:]<BR>><BR>><BR><BR>It is not a matter of being more radical than thou. What is sad about<BR>Lamont is that we have to enthuse over someone whose social program is<BR>essentially to the right of Richard Nixon. This has nothing to do<BR>with Lamont but rather with the times and our own lack of power. So<BR>sure, use Lamont as a protest vote or as a way to argue against the<BR>war (but hardly against U.S. imperialism or even against jingoism... )<BR>but don't think that electing Lamont is anything but electing another<BR>bastard.<BR><BR>Jerry<BR></div> <div>Sheesh. I see a guy whose progressive credentials are solid and from personal conversation he's anything but a "bastard." And again, you judge a guy by the company he keeps, and his top people are solid leftists.</div> <div> </div> <div>As a recovering Naderite, I hereby repudiate my past ultra-leftism and officially embrace Lamontism, a new rightist tendency. Shoot me. <BR></div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>  <hr size=1>Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com">Make PC-to-Phone Calls</a> to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.