Van Jones running as a Green could bleed the Democratic party Red.
Posted on 09/13/2009 3:01:40 AM PDT by kingattax
The Green Party invited President Barack Obama’s green-jobs czar to join their ranks, possibly as a future presidential candidate, after he stepped down last Sunday following controversial statements and activities.
Van Jones had recently come under fire for making derogatory comments about Republicans, calling them “a—holes,” earlier this year, and likening former President George W. Bush to a “crackhead” in a speech captured on YouTube.
The Green Party compared Obama’s restraint in coming to Jones’ aid over the recent controversy to President Bill Clinton’s lack of defense when his African-American nominee for Assistant Attorney General, Lani Guinier, was attacked and ultimately withdrawn.
“The targets tend to be Black -- consistent with Republican fury over the election of Barack Obama to the White House,” the Party said in a statement about the comparison.
Jones is an African-American environmental activist from California and has been championed by liberals as pioneering the “green jobs” movement – or jobs that add to the quality of the environment.
“Like the Greens, Van Jones sees green jobs and a healthy environment as interconnected pillars of a sustainable and just economy, said Mike Feinstein, co-chair of the Green Party.
“We encourage Van to bring that agenda into the electoral arena as a Green Party member, leader and possible future candidate, either nationally, statewide in California, or locally in Oakland, his home.”
Marian Douglas-Ungaro of the DC Statehood Green Party and the Green Party Black Caucus agreed with the call for Jones to join the party.
“As a Green, Van Jones can be a strong national voice for justice and the environment, independent of the constraints of the Democratic Party hierarchy, the corporate lobbies that pull their strings, and the right-wing appeasement and selling out of grassroots social movements that appears to be their strategy,” he said.
Van Jones running as a Green could bleed the Democratic party Red.
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While I share your sentiments, I also look at Europe with its very powerful Green Parties with some concern.
who spits the seeds ?
would be awesome.
I share that concern. But Van Jones could expose Greens for what they really are and make the movement less powerful in the USA.
Right now it does OK here for the same reason Greens do in Europe. It appeals to people in the cities, in small apartments who have access to public transit. Being green is a idylic fantasy for those people. At least for the dupes. Van Jones injects ugliness into their dreamland.
Nice. I hesitate to add but will. How about:
"We have a Watermelon Government - Environmental Green on the outside; Bloodless White with the American people, in between; and, Commie red on the inside."
Here's proof, in Michelle's garden patch:
Notice that only Democrats who’ve seen the end of their political career run as Greens? The Green party in the US never will amount to anything more than a way to siphon lefty votes away from the Democrat candidate, and that’s great.
Good call...
This is possible, but I can also envision a scenario that after losing multiple elections by splitting the vote, that the Greens and the Dems work together (ACORN, etc) to oppose and destroy the GOP, leaving them as the only two strong parties in the USA.
Greens, Communist Party USA and the Working Families party are part of the Democratic coalition now. Now and then during the Popular Front Era, the CPUSA would oppose Democrats but not often. That is about where Greens are now. I see Van Jones as a disruptive force, one which can weaken the “no enemies on the left” creed Democrats are instructed to believe.
That’s a silly thing to be worried about. No real Republican would ever vote Green party, and Democrats don’t want any form of competition.
The question is what to do with the opportunity? Ensure the Republican party a win, and business as usual, or try to find candidates who are committed to reducing government power?
My philosophy is get the best possible (I refuse to phrase this as the lesser of two evils..negativity is poison) and then demand more. The worst path is absolutism. That is helped give us Wilson in 1912, Clinton in 1992 and Obama in 2008. Until, late February, I considered Wilson the worst president ever, now I’m certain Obama is if the reaction to him sputters (which I do not believe it will).
Dems are seedy - could that be it?
Ralphie Nadir made Bush the president in 2000. Van Jones could do the same for Sarah Palin.
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