[Sosfbay-discuss] "Dare to Win"

[Andrea Dorey]

Cameron,
Then I'm glad to hear that.  He certainly had every intention to do  
so, and THAT in itself caused a loss of face for the GP.
Sorry, but I still think the guy was not the candidate we should have  
run.  No star quality.  No ability to force election discussion to  
subjects the majors didn't want to discuss.
Andrea
On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:

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>> From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
>> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:28:17 -0700
>> To: Green South Bay Discussion <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] "Dare to Win"
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>> At the risk of repeating myself, anyone who runs with the admonition
>> that he will not run in any state (county, city) that a well-known
>> major party does not have a big lead over the other major party, does
>> *not* "dare to win," and is costing his party its credibility.  We
>> got the government we deserve, if we're really honest about it.
>> Andrea
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> I often hear an allegation that David Cobb ran only in
> "safe" states, or at least said that's what he was gonna do.
> The facts don't support that allegation, though.
> As far as I know, David was talked out of that "strategy"
> at the 2003 convention in DC, along with almost all of its
> proponents at the time, and he campaigned in every
> state where he was on the ballot.
>
> I've been asking the people who make that allegation
> for a verifiable quote in a news story in a real
> newspaper, or perhaps a video interview that wasn't
> cut down to short phrases and reassembled for broadcast.
> It's been a couple of years now and they
> still haven't produced one.  Not one.  The closest they can
> get is a dramatized opinion piece on MSNBC's Web site.
>
> It seems to me that's pretty close to proof by default
> that the Cobb campaign didn't actually pursue the
> "safe states" strategy that the corporate media
> *projected* onto it.  It's one of those things
> that "everybody knows" that just isn't true.
> And the belief has done more damage to our party and
> movement than anything since the GPUSA chicanery.
>
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> Cameron
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