[GNC] After November? "My 3 & 4 cents"

[Merelice at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/5/04 4:24:38 PM, mikeh.massed at rcn.com writes:


> As of now, I'm holding my nose and voting for Cobb/LaMarche and hoping
> that the GRP gets 3% of the vote (and that other Green Paries will gain or
> maintain their ballot access. And I hope that when the election will be over
> is November, the Green Party will not be either blamed or given credit for
> the results. And that, my friends, feels like a pretty shitty reason to vote
> for the Greens and a pretty shitty thing to hope for.
> 

I'll give you a better reason, Mike. Both Cobb and Lamarche met with Chuck 
and Mel (and a few others in the GRP) on the one day that their respective trips 
to Boston overlapped. Chuck presented, and Cobb embraced, the "fund the 
dream" campaign. LaMarche plans to get active in the campaign after the 
presidential campaign. The very next day, Cobb included it in his speech at a rally and 
plans to do so all over the country. I'm told that at his various appearances 
among the more radical groups among us, his remarks were enthusiastically 
received. His message about getting Bush out doesn't resonate with us and he knows 
it. He doesn't talk about it here. And even when he hints at it elsewhere, he 
does not refer (and says he never has referred) to a "safe states" strategy. 
That was coined by the national Party when it was struggling over possible 
approaches to the presidential election. He takes his lead from the State parties; 
if they want him to campaign (even in a swing state), he goes: Ohio and 
Pennsylvania were his first stops after the convention. At the same time, he 
genuinely believes that his policy is WHY he got the Party's nomination; I tried to 
convince him otherwise.
Hope this helps. The fact is, we have the best candidate (warts and all) for 
president.
Merelice
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