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Starting in late spring, Anybody-But-Bush liberal friends, already showing early signs of panic, started asking me if John Kerry was ever going to go onto the offensive. "Sure he will," I replied; "they know they need more than 'I am not Bush' to win." As the summer wore on, I began to realize that I was wrong. It takes a certain perverse talent to run against arguably the biggest disaster that has yet occupied the White House and lose.
Kerry probably did win in Ohio and New Mexico, and perhaps in Florida, but let's set aside that debate. Even if we concede that the Republican Party stole another election, it still won half the vote. Given that the Democrats' main electoral activity was a savage attack on Ralph Nader, perhaps it was not realistic to think the Democrats would try to put forward any sort of positive program. Just to prove the party is incapable of learning anything, the Democrats have already anointed a new scapegoat--San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, for stirring up the Christian right by sanctifying same-sex marriages.
A probable outcome of this trend is for the Democrats to move still further to the right. Such a development opens new opportunities for third parties. Will there be a third party to take advantage? While Anybody-But-Bush proved to be another step in the gradual disintegration of the Democratic Party, it has led to an implosion of the Green Party. A September headline on the CounterPunch website, "Cobb Polling at 0%, Exceeding Expectations," says it all.
If the Green Party truly didn't want to run a campaign, it should...
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