Since even the Green party seems to be getting more coverage than usual from the media, I figure we probably need this thread too.
Came across this interesting piece of rhetoric from Stein:
Wow, she’s offering to step aside if he wants the nomination.
As I keep saying, Bernie isn’t a retard so he won’t do this.
Unfortunately, Jill Stein is. The continued existence of the green party is a travesty and if I was the more conspiratorial type, I’d think she was being bankrolled by and supports the republican party.
Jill Stein is actually less qualified than Donald Trump to be president. Jill Stein has lost every single election she’s competed in. If you’re unable to get elected to the state assembly, you have no business even thinking about the presidency.
Jill Stein is a lying egomaniac. She knows damn well there is quite a huge gap between Hillary and Donald Trump. I hope Bernie or Bust has died down by November and shitbag Stein gets nothing but coverage on C Span 3 at 2 AM on a Saturday night and takes less than 1% of the vote.
Didn’t the Green Party announce recently that they wouldn’t run Sanders? I read somewhere that people were asking for him to run as a Green, but the party didn’t want to negate their own primary.
So Bernie, are election shenanigans allowed if they benefit you?
In addition to not being an idiot, Bernie is fundamentally honest. It’s part of his appeal. But it also means there’s no way he does this - if he wanted to run as an independent or a Green or anything else, he would’ve started that way.
Given the mountain of bullshit his campaign has been based on the past few months, I think his appeal is more the projection of honesty than actual honesty. But that said, I don’t expect he would take Stein up on her offer.
Something like this actually happened in Maine.
Eliot Cutler wasn’t a Green, just an independent. In 2014, we had a three way race for governor, between him, Mike Michaud(D), and Paul Lepage(R) who was running for re-election. Mr. Cutler was very liberal, and IMO would have made a damn good governor. But the right wing knew exactly what they were doing by backing him. They got liberals to split the vote between him and Michaud. We got stuck with four more years of a racist blowhard.
I wish I could say that the Maine liberals I know (Maine’s my home state) were smarter than that.
I can’t.
Reality checking in. Sanders is not going to run on the Green ticket. Sanders will endorse Hillary on Wednesday. He may even run for vice president, not a big chance but several orders of magnitude higher than him running Green.
It’s funny to start a post with “Reality checking in,” and then proceed to make a statement which is already the consensus of the thread.
Stein just announced that the Greens support forgiving all college debt. Sounds like an appeal to Sanders supporters.
IT’s also anti-taxpayer. Do taxpayers that have trouble paying their share of that $1 trillion also get their tax debt forgiven?
Just out of curiosity, which elections did Trump ever win?
None at all. But he hasn’t lost minor elections either. If you can’t win a state assembly seat, you have no business running for President.
Yes, but Jill Stein ran campaigns. Even running losing campaigns, IMO, makes her more qualified than Trump. Perhaps she’s just as big an idiot, I dunno, as I know virtually nothing about her history.
Running a losing campaign is not experience. Doing a job in government is experience. Campaigning and governing tend to involve very different skills, plus it’s a totally different management set up. Campaign managers are the primary power in a campaign, not the candidate. “running” a campaign is literally a nothing item on a resume for a candidate, especially a losing one.
It looks like the only election this woman has won successfully is to the Town of Lexington Town Meeting Seat. Other than that, she’s lost every campaign. Running as a Green in liberal Massachusetts and failing should be a sign that she’s nowhere even close to being a serious candidate for the presidency.
I can’t imagine anyone being foolish enough to throw their vote away on Jill Stein.
If you want change, then all votes are wasted votes.
If by travesty you mean “completely harmless forum presenting those who wish to associate with it an opportunity to assert the presence of a portion of the electorate who are to the left of the Democratic Party”, then I completely agree with you.