Feeling Blue in a Red State
Just when I thought I had figured out who to vote for on Tuesday, Jonathan had to go and post about Chris Lugo, the Green Party candidate whom I didn't even know was running.
Life was much easier when Obama was one of my options.
Life was much easier when Obama was one of my options.
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However, now is not the time. The TN seat is one that could go Democratic. While Ford himself may not be perfect, he will play by party lines and that means protecting some very important values around environmentalism, social security, the war in Iraq, etc.
If you vote for the Green candidtae, consider it a vote for Corker. There is no way the Green party candidate will win. Let's be realistic.
Is winning everything? Is winning more important than idealism? This year the answer is yes.
These elections are too tight to risk electing a conservative republican.
We liberals, progressives and radicals should have learned our --very hard, brutally hard, it will take a generation to get over, still puts bile in my belly-- awful lesson of Nader.
True, were just voting for one set of corporate cronies over another, but at least it won't be our Theocratic Hegemon's buddies.
I was tempted by a green party guy in our gubernatorial, but on my way to the polls decided I was so disgusted with the Republicans that I voted straight Democrat.