[DeuceTraveler]

The SF Chronicle just put out an article on Memogate in what I think is a smear campaign against the democrats so that the media there can endorse the Green Party. Check here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1036187/posts?page=8

This is scary. The Green party is called the watermelon party in Europe. Scratch the surface and you will find red. The communists are making gains.

[Nonstatist]

platform that calls for social justice, ecological imperatives, demilitarization, gender equity, and an economic system that's community-based.

IOW, the far left. Hey, anything that splits the Democrats up is a good thing, IMO

[randog]

Beyond the hyperbole, both pro and con, is a momentum that is illustrated by the more than 200 Greens who now hold elected office around the United States.

Momentum or a statistical anomaly? I don't think SF is the best example of national political trends.

[weegee]

...and has become a kind of haven for disaffected Democrats -- even as it continues to be stereotyped as the party that derailed Al Gore's presidency.

If these DemocRats did not want to go on record voting for Albert Gore Junior into the White House then their vote should not be "assumed" by the Democrats.

A third party candidate like Ross Perot (who seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth) was considered a "good" thing last decade.

The communist and socialist parties ran candidates in Flordia too and that could also have cost Algore that state. We don't hear how the Reds should have been voting for Gore. Reds/Greens/YellowDogDems; what's the difference? They all support socialism.

[hedgetrimmer]

Greens should not be allowed to hold office. If communists are elected to the government they will make the government communist. Greens holding political office in America is technically subversion of our government.

[mewzilla]

Wonder what the Green candidates drive? Bet it's not compacts.