David Zuckerman, a Vermont state legislator who was elected only as a Progressive, is considering running for Lieutenant Governor in 2010 and seeking both the Progressive Party nomination and the Democratic Party nomination. In 2008, the vote for Lieutenant Governor in the general election had been Republican 55.0%, Democratic 39.1%, Progressive 4.5%, Liberty Union 1.2%. Zuckerman ponders aloud in the Progressive Party’s blog at this link.
Rep. Zuckerman would likely serve as a Progressive, methinks.
He should run as both. The main objective is to get elected in order to bring about positive change. As Eugene J. McCarthy so famously put it (in his book, “Frontiers in American Democracy”): “The fundamental objective of politics is to bring about progressive change in keeping with the demands of social justice.”
Ah Gene McCarthy P1968, if only RFK would have humbly offered to ‘help in any way possible’ instead of high jacking the Peace Campaign! How much different our world might have adapted!
——– Donald Raymond Lake, I hate HHH and LBJ!
You are correct, Don. Robert F. Kennedy would probably still be alive today if he had done what you suggested. What a tragic loss of a wonderful human being!
And what a disgraceful power grab by yet another Kennedy! We’d expect it from Nixon ‘I have a secret plan to end the Viet Nam debacle’!
I would ‘take’ Gentleman Gene McCarthy over all three Kennedy boys!
—– Don ‘Welcome to the 21st Century’ Lake
Well, Don, “power grab” is as good of a way as describing the situation (RFK’s entry after Clean Gene’s near win in New Hampshire) as any. As put in a news interview by one young lady in the McCarthy camp, “It was like going downstairs on Christmas morning and finding that all of the presents had been stolen.”
In any event, the McCarthy, and McGovern (representing the Kennedy people and others), forces were railroaded at the Democratic convention anyway. What a bummer that was. The polls at the time consistently showed that had Eugene McCarthy obtained the Democratic nomination, he would have been elected President of the United States. As a young Republican at the time, I knew that I would have voted for him, rather than Richard Nixon, in November.