That Current Affair piece, via managing editor Lily Sanchez, reminds waverers, and calls out #BlueAnon and #BlueMAGA, by saying that if West, or whomever, is not backed, even if he is Naderized, then the options are just RFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson, an antivaxxer palling around with wingnuts or an antivaxxer New Ager.
As to those "whomevers"?
Randy Toler is allegedly a Green Party co-founder, and co-chair of the Florida party. Ballotpedia lists him as running for the US Senate in Florida against Rick Scott. Wiki smears him (shock me) with the "perennial candidate" tag, even though Ballotpedia only lists him as running for two long-ago school board races. That said, whatever GP he founded at age 17, Toler personally, at that time, was an AccommoGreen, per this piece.
Adam Hollick? Pretty sure it's not the actor, who isn't constitutionally eligible anyway.
Anita Belle? Ran for Michigan state senate in 2018 and house in 2020, so some previous campaign experience.
Jackie Tate? Can't find anything.
Mason Cysewski? Like Toler, also running for the Senate, and from here in Tex-ass. New name to me.
Robert Cooke IV? Can't find anything. Scrub that. Also from Tex-ass and in the Metromess. Nothing else.
Tyler Gray. From Tennessee.
Knock yourselves out, and, yes, some of you are vanity candidates by my definition, and not an MSM one. And, what, no William Pounds or other "libertarian Green" conspiracy theorist types?
This one's a no-brainer. Barring a massive screw-up, West has my vote. And support beyond vote.
Update, Oct. 5: Running indy? That's a massive screw-up. Just lost my vote.
And, that's not just within the Green Party, that's in the general election. He's already got the left hand of duopoly political media scared enough to do their usual #FakeNews smears. Richard Winger at Ballot-Access News nails Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic doing it yesterday. Via Winger, Oliver Hall of the Center for Competitive Democracy called out Second Amendment sellout Laurence Tribe for his slimy attacks on West. The PDF has a sidebar piece from the late Bruce Dixon on Democratic sheepdoggers like Bernie Sanders for added effect. Beyond the GP, Winger nailed Mother Jones getting campaign finance law wrong on No Labels earlier in the week.
The bottom line is that Warmonger Joe and handlers, and #BlueAnon and #BlueMAGA in general are running scared. As Matt Walsh at Reason noted, they've got a craptacular candidate, but made their bed for him 3 1/2 years ago. Oh, and per Leibovich, Tribe and others, the DNC is already holding no primaries, so STFU for that reason, too. And, among the sheepdoggers in chief, as Dixon knew he would be for the 2016 election, when he wrote back in 2015, is St. Bernard of Sanders.
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