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

[Mike Heichman]

Hi Merelice,

Thanks for your thoughts and additional information.

It certainly helps when I learn additional information that ameliorates the
situation. Sometimes, in my "darkness", I forget about the upside of things.

Mike Heichman


on 8/5/04 10:09 PM, Merelice at aol.com at Merelice at aol.com wrote:


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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