As I said to Michael above, I can even forgive his spoiling of the election if he recognized that he made a mistake and learned from it. Certainly nobody could anticipate 9/11 (oh wait, except the guys who sent GWB memos in August of 2001...) But he won't. He still says that virtually all candidates but him are the same, "corporate tools," "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" (while plaintively wondering why Gore won't exonerate him). That kind of flammatory rhetoric is going to attract a lot more criticism than the others, and furthermore his naivete directly undermines what he says he's trying to accomplish. If we had a different electoral system, his run wouldn't have had the consequences that it did. However we don't--we have a winner-take-all system--and it did. Instead of siphoning votes, why not campaign to change the electoral system, which is a terrific goal? Then maybe he could get a phone call returned on Capitol Hill instead of being shunned as he is now. He's invalidated his own legacy.
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Date: 2008-06-25 06:26 pm (UTC)As I said to Michael above, I can even forgive his spoiling of the election if he recognized that he made a mistake and learned from it. Certainly nobody could anticipate 9/11 (oh wait, except the guys who sent GWB memos in August of 2001...) But he won't. He still says that virtually all candidates but him are the same, "corporate tools," "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" (while plaintively wondering why Gore won't exonerate him). That kind of flammatory rhetoric is going to attract a lot more criticism than the others, and furthermore his naivete directly undermines what he says he's trying to accomplish. If we had a different electoral system, his run wouldn't have had the consequences that it did. However we don't--we have a winner-take-all system--and it did. Instead of siphoning votes, why not campaign to change the electoral system, which is a terrific goal? Then maybe he could get a phone call returned on Capitol Hill instead of being shunned as he is now. He's invalidated his own legacy.