With the 2004 Presidential race hurtling towards us like a comet in a 1950s "b"movie, the left wing political parties of America, both major and minor, are attempting to find their standard bearers to take on the currently still popular President Bush.
One such party is, of course, the Green Party, home to aging hippies who couldn't bother to shed their birkenstocks and young so-called anarchists who strangely enough call for me government intervention in their own lives.
In 2000, the Greens ran Ralph Nader, professional scold, who, some say, was famous enough to draw enough votes away from the equally scolding Gore to allow President Bush to get elected.
With the next election rolling around, however, there is still a question of whether or not the Greens will get Nader to run again. After all, Nader probably needs to to manage his "vast personal fortune" before venturing out again to attack the rich as evil.
So the Green party is out looking for a new presidential candidate. And one potential candidate hails from Ithaca, the City of Evil. As reported in the Ithaca Times:Paul Glover, Ithaca's most well-known activist, has been tapped as a potential candidate for the Green Party to run in the 2004 presidential election [along with] party consul David Cobb, and former Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney.
In support for a Green candidacy, Glover cites what he sees as the inability of the Democrat party to nominate a sufficiently "progressive" candidate, bemoaning, at his website, the fact that "Sharpton will raise important issues but will be marginalized by ...establishment...Democrats"
In other words, one of the three people being most seriously considered, after Nader, as the Green Party's presidential candidate, is expressing admiration for the ideas of a known, thug, racist and anti-Semite.
Sharpton first came to prominence (or notoriety) in 1987 as one of the men involved in the Tawana Brawleyhoax. For those who have forgotten, Brawley, a then-fifteen-year-old black girl, claimed a gang of white law enforcement officers had abducted and raped her, setting off a national furor over alleged racism. Later, however, her story was determined by a grand jury to be hoax. Furthermore, one of the men accused by Sharpton sued him and the others for libel. The jury found Sharpton liable for making "false and defamatory statements" about the matter. One of Sharpton's co-defendants, attorney C. Vernon Mason, "was disbarred in 1995 for price gouging, theft and abandoning clients."
That was not the end of Sharpton's racial fear-mongering, however.
During New York’s 1991 Crown Heights riots Sharpton reportedly said, “Don’t just talk about the jeweler [whose store was burned] on Utica. Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here.” Furthermore, as recently as eight years ago Sharpton:
"marched besides picketers protesting a Jewish-owned business in Harlem as they shouted 'blood-sucking Jews' and 'Jew bastards.' That little exercise in brotherhood resulted in eight deaths, when a protester rushed into the store and started shooting employees."
Nice guy, huh?
Apparently, one of the potential national standard bearers of the Green party thinks so.
Some people might say, "well, that's bad, but what makes the Greens any worse than the democratic party? They're always cozying up to Sharpton too."
I'll tell you what.
The Democrats are forced to deal with Sharpton because, right or wrong, they allowed him to insinuate himself in their party. Now he's there, stinking up the already putrid air of the left wing.
Any other party, however, does not have Sharpton. They don't have to deal with him. And they shouldn't deal with him.
But one of their "leaders," the same one who is trying to distance his party from the Democrats is expressing admiration for the fact that Sharpton espouses the same ideas the Green Party does.
The fact that one of the only persons who, by the left's own admission, seems able to sell their ideas is racist ought to give the left pause as to whether those ideas are worth selling
