Imagine if Ralph Nader had appeared on stage with Al Gore a few days before the 2000 election,
shaken hands with him, acknowledged their differences of opinion, congratulated him on his campaign, and urged his supporters to vote for Gore in order to keep Bush out of office. No Bush victory; no Iraq war; no Guantanamo; quite possibly, no 9/11.
Had he done that, I would still respect the guy to this day.
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But you can't expect the Greens to stop running until the GOP stops nominating psychopaths.
The response our party should make to that is to take the kind of stands in the fall that will hold Stein's vote count down.
It's possible for us to run that kind of campaign no matter who we nominate.
We just need to break some of our bad old habits...such our obsession with appealing at all costs to a "center" that doesn't actually exist(when you look at the views of people who call themselves "centrists" in most polls, they actually tend to support clearly left-of-center policies on the issues...they self-identify as "centrist" (or even, in some cases "conservative"
not out of actual ideological conviction but because they use those words as euphmisms for "common sense" or "practical".
I'm guessing Al picked Droopy Dog so he would look more charismatic with Joementum there for contrast, If any American politician can be said to have negative charisma it's Joebituary, he makes Cruz look almost non creepy.
