Rick Wilson book: some Green Party candidates were GOP fronts to strip votes

[EveHammond13]

a complete concoction by GOP operatives

he admits that's how it is done

politics ain't bean bag

[RandySF]

1. Well documented

[CaptYossarian]

2. Yep. Divide and conquer.

[Iliyah]

3. Duh . . .

Jill Stein comes to mind.

[IADEMO2004]

8. Her name still triggers me. I see the faces of virtuous people I know that voted for her.

Hated Hillary and gambled with the future of our republic.

[sdfernando]

18. You mean folks like Nina Turner? /NT

[IADEMO2004]

23. Fraternizing but I don't know if she voted for Stein

I'm talking about local people that have told me they voted for Stein.

[sdfernando]

25. She has publicly stated that she voted for Stein rather than Hillary.

[IADEMO2004]

26. BOO

[el_bryanto]

4. Seems like the only safe thing to do is to continue supporting corporate Democrats.

I am voting blue for sure, but hope i can vote for a candidate that more closely reflects my democratic socialist views than that.

Bryant
http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Mike 03]

5. Does he name names?

I'm really curious about something.

One of my favorite writers in the world, Chris Hedges, seemed to get on that bandwagon big time in 2016. I'm trying to figure out if it was an honest mistake, or whether he was used, or whether he did so knowing exactly what he was doing.

[Wabbajack_]

6. Which ones?

Jill Stein may be an idiot but she appears to hold genuine beliefs. Ditto Nader.

[sweetloukillbot]

7. There have been several in AZ running for state seats

They were recruiting homeless people to run as Green candidates.

[awesomerwb1]

10. Well if she didn't pretend to have "genuine beliefs"

she couldn't have fooled as many people as she did....or taken their money for the infamous recounts.
There is a reason why she was invited to meet and sit at Putin's table....unless you think Putin is a green at heart.

[Kaiserguy]

27. Putin is very green at heart

Greed Money Green that is.

[John Fante]

28. If Stein had genuine ideals, she would have realized how

much of a threat Trump was to them and not played the "both sides are the same" card during the 2016 election.

She's the very definition of faux-prog.

[HarlanPepper]

9. Confirming what a lot of us already knew

That the Green Party in this country is a toxic fraud.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Sad to say,

we have so many Single Issue Voters. Amazing how those folks are totally blind to the big picture and refuse to admit they are blind.

Sounds like we might see another effort to pull this off once again.

[democrattotheend]

12. I had a Republican friend/acquaintance in college

Tell me he spent the summer, as an intern for the PA Republican Party, collecting signatures to help get Green Party candidates on the ballot in PA.

Surprise me this does not.

[bamagal62]

13. In walks

Tulsi Gabbard.

[BadgerMom]

19. You read my mind.

[Hekate]

29. You betcha

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. It has always seemed interesting

that the Greens show up at the end of a Democratic Presidency, seemingly to help ensure that the vote gets split enough for the Republican to win the EC- or at least create enough uncertainty about the vote to enable them to steal the election. I also have little doubt that Jill Stein was part of a larger Russian effort to help throw the election to Donald Trump. It has happened exactly twice in our recent history. Coincidence? I think not.

[ecstatic]

15. It sucks that so many people continue to fall for it. nt

[UTUSN]

16. K&R

[ibegurpard]

17. I know of one GOP operative

specifically that was on the ballot as a Green in Montana in 2018. And I'm not saying that there aren't legitimate Greens who don't have legitimate beefs with the Democratic Party. But I fail to see how a Party that doesn't seem to want to do the work to change the process to be friendlier to multiple parties thinks it can skate in with a top of the ticket candidate in an election.
What the Green Party should be working on non-stop in every state where it can is ranked choice voting. If they aren't they aren't serious.

[markbark]

20. As I've often said...

"Green" is an acronym: Getting Republicans Elected Every November

[yaesu]

21. As mush as we may love to have party alternatives its not going to happen in our lifetimes

as long as we live in a capitalistic oligarchy.

[11 Bravo]

22. Jill ***cough*** Stein.

AKA: Ralph Nader without the street cred.

[paleotn]

24. And this in new how?

We've known that for years. And it's not just domestic GOP operatives. Foreign actors are in on the scam. Seriously, why would a relatively obscure American internist, professional low single digit candidate and all around crank show up for dinner with Vlad Putin and his entourage?

[Hekate]

30. It's one thing for us to suspect it and say it; it's quite another for a former GOP operative...

...to put it in writing.

[paleotn]

31. It is nice to hear them finally admit to something we've known for years.

It's kind of like the proverbial kid accused of stealing cookies because they're covered in cookie crumbs. Though I didn't see them steal the cookies, the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Republican operatives many times are way too cute for their own good and not nearly as smart as they think they are.

[dewsgirl]

32. Great book.

[TygrBright]

33. We've known this since 1992, Rick. You just figgered it out? ::sigh: n/t

[JudyM]

34. We need to find a doorway to form an alliance with real greens for this election.

[dalton99a]

35. HINT: The Green Party hasn't done anything other than help Republicans win elections.