"Kate Michelman to Pull a Nader in Pennsylvania?"
It seems like the same old tired argument getting used for anyone who doesn't join the limp zombie line of DNC drones that seem to stand for less and less now a days. I wonder if the political strategy is to hope that the Republicans dig themselves into a hole they can't get out of? It seems that the Democratic Party is learning nothing from their repeated defeats... or perhaps they're not or never were the party that progressives thought they were. The only snowballs chance in hell seems to be more 3rd party or independent organization and this seems to be making itself more evident through the shutting down of any progressive Democrats that put up a serious and principled fight for anything... Wouldn't it be refreshing if voters turned out and voted for candidates and not the parties which seem to only have empty promises from behind obscenely funded smoke and mirrors for cover?
Here's the tripe below:
Kate Michelman to Pull a Nader in Pennsylvania?
By pontificator
03/06/2006 10:54:27 PM EST
This could be bad news. Catastrophically bad news. Former NARAL chair Kate Michelman says she may run for Pennsylvania Senate as a third party independent candidate:
How angry was Michelman?
The veteran activist, who has lived for almost three decades in Pennsylvania, might just jump into the Senate race herself.
"After Casey announced his support for Alito, I got calls from around the country," says Michelman in a Legal Times article on the fallout from the Alito fight. She tells Legal Times that she has been urged by Democratic donors and feminist groups to run this fall as a pro-choice independent challenger to anti-choice Republican Santorum and anti-choice Democrat Casey.
If Michaelman runs, she'll do nothing but split the Democratic vote and assure a Santorum victory. If she was really serious about furthering the pro-choice agenda, she would have gotten in gear months ago and run against Casey in the Democratic primary. Doing the third party spoiler thing now, by contrast, will return Santorum to the Senate, and therefore assure a continued Republican Senate majority. Such an outcome will not only set the pro-choice movement back, but also hurt progressive causes on civil liberties, labor, the environment, health care, and pretty much every other progressive cause you can think of (goodbye NSA wiretap hearings, hello retroactive authorization of unsupervised NSA domestic spying, for example).
Let's hope Michaelman pulls back on this foul trial balloon. No one is asking her to campaign for Casey. We're just asking her to do no harm.
It seems like the same old tired argument getting used for anyone who doesn't join the limp zombie line of DNC drones that seem to stand for less and less now a days. I wonder if the political strategy is to hope that the Republicans dig themselves into a hole they can't get out of? It seems that the Democratic Party is learning nothing from their repeated defeats... or perhaps they're not or never were the party that progressives thought they were. The only snowballs chance in hell seems to be more 3rd party or independent organization and this seems to be making itself more evident through the shutting down of any progressive Democrats that put up a serious and principled fight for anything... Wouldn't it be refreshing if voters turned out and voted for candidates and not the parties which seem to only have empty promises from behind obscenely funded smoke and mirrors for cover?
Here's the tripe below:
Kate Michelman to Pull a Nader in Pennsylvania?
By pontificator
03/06/2006 10:54:27 PM EST
This could be bad news. Catastrophically bad news. Former NARAL chair Kate Michelman says she may run for Pennsylvania Senate as a third party independent candidate:
How angry was Michelman?
The veteran activist, who has lived for almost three decades in Pennsylvania, might just jump into the Senate race herself.
"After Casey announced his support for Alito, I got calls from around the country," says Michelman in a Legal Times article on the fallout from the Alito fight. She tells Legal Times that she has been urged by Democratic donors and feminist groups to run this fall as a pro-choice independent challenger to anti-choice Republican Santorum and anti-choice Democrat Casey.
If Michaelman runs, she'll do nothing but split the Democratic vote and assure a Santorum victory. If she was really serious about furthering the pro-choice agenda, she would have gotten in gear months ago and run against Casey in the Democratic primary. Doing the third party spoiler thing now, by contrast, will return Santorum to the Senate, and therefore assure a continued Republican Senate majority. Such an outcome will not only set the pro-choice movement back, but also hurt progressive causes on civil liberties, labor, the environment, health care, and pretty much every other progressive cause you can think of (goodbye NSA wiretap hearings, hello retroactive authorization of unsupervised NSA domestic spying, for example).
Let's hope Michaelman pulls back on this foul trial balloon. No one is asking her to campaign for Casey. We're just asking her to do no harm.
