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Till I'm Blue in the Face

M'ris responds to my response about the Greens in the 2000 campaign. Much of her commentary is not directed at me -- it's directed at other (hypothetical) Democrats who have proffered arguments that I simply would not (and did not) make. Of the points she criticizes me for, there are really just two. On the first point, we will have to respectfully disagree: while I recognize that the President is not supremely powerful, and that we are speaking about hypotheticals, in my opinion the Green-unfriendly actions, policies, and political appointments I mentioned yesterday were all direct consequences of the election of Bush... and had Gore been elected, the results from a Green perspective would have been far less odious. On the second point, M'ris quite rightly accuses me of making a specious argument about Nader and the reason why the Greens voted for him. That was my fault -- it was a half-hearted, lame attempt on my part to artificially separate the Greens from Nader and dump the blame on his head rather than say something mean about the Greens in general. So I might as well come out with it: the truth is, Greens, I'm mad at all y'all. There, I've said it.

On to the important stuff. Timprov sends me news of Stan Jones, a 3rd-party US Senate candidate in Montana who's actually wackier than any of the weirdos on the California ballot. Seems that in a fit of Y2K mania, this fella managed to permanently dye his face blue. (Perhaps the colors in the photograph are distorted a little... but isn't his tie picking up that blue-gray color nicely? Or maybe it's just me.) Of course, the really strange thing about that race isn't Stan Jones, it's that the incumbent Senator in that Montana race is a Democrat. Who knew? Must be all them liberal Horse-Whisperer writin'-types coming in and taking over the place. Anyway, if anyone knows of any equally-wacky candidates, particularly wacky Democratic candidates (just to show I don't play favorites), send them my way.¹

1. Although what with the recent elimination of Cynthia McKinney, the game is now a tad more challenging.

Posted by Evan Goer on Oct. 03, 2002 at 10:08 PM