As Trump struggles, Greens argue that it’s safe to cast votes for Stein

[DonViejo]

BOULDER, Colo. — At Jill Stein’s presidential rallies, the 2016 election is over. Donald Trump has already lost, and his Republican Party is “falling apart.” A “Demo-Republican” party, led by Hillary Clinton, is rolling toward victory.

It’s safe, in other words, to vote for the Green Party and to ignore those “corporate media” voices yammering about “spoilers” and “wasted votes” and — perish the thought — Ralph Nader. “Most Donald Trump supporters, in fact, don’t support Donald Trump,” Stein said at a rally in Fort Collins on Saturday night, the second stop on a four-city weekend tour of Colorado. “They just really, really don’t like Hillary Clinton. So, let’s give them another place to put their vote.”

Stein, who is making her second Green Party presidential bid, has yet to rise out of single digits in the polls. But Trump’s recent swoon has given her an opening — a way to argue, temporarily, that a progressive voter can bolt the Democratic Party without electing President Trump.

It was one reason she came to Colorado, a swing state that Democrats have recently nudged into the “safe” column. The pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA slashed an ad buy this month, and a divided Republican Party nominated a far-right, poorly funded candidate to challenge Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D).

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-struggles-greens-argue-that-its-safe-to-cast-votes-for-stein/2016/08/31/2b720adc-6ee3-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

[Scurrilous]

1. @#$% Jill Stein.

[scheming daemons]

2. No, it is NOT safe to vote for Jill Stein

Trumpism must be crushed, not merely defeated

[Gothmog]

3. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump

Stein is trying to elect Trump

[SHRED]

4. Stein runs for a living

I'm convinced she is trolling for donations.

[Demsrule86]

11. The Greens take GOP money and they help enact GOP policy...

Progressive, I don't think so.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry for screaming.

[oasis]

6. Oh hell no.

[workersuntie]

7. If Stein were a more credible candidate ...

... this might make for some interesting discussion. But she isn't and it doesn't.

No. Just ... no.

[book_worm]

8. Convince enough of them that is the case and Trump could win.

[fleabiscuit]

18. The polls show that the no chance candidates pull support from Dump as they rise, not HRC. nt

[Demsrule86]

9. Those who vote for Stein

are voting for Trump. And they will own any of the horrors Trump would visit upon this country just as they own the Bush years after the Nader debacle. Clearly, Stein and the Green slime are not progressive in any way ....they have become GOP operatives and nothing more.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. These fucking morons never learn

[ismnotwasm]

12. Nope all over that

Also, ew.

[DanTex]

13. It's might be safe for them, because they are well-to-do white people who don't care

if others suffer.

[MineralMan]

14. To Heck with That Noise!

Make your vote count in this election. Don't vote for hopeless candidates. That's my suggestion.

[Historic NY]

15. Pure bullshit vote Hill not Jill.

[GusBob]

16. Another one attacking the media huh?

In order for Trump to become a dictator he needs the media neutralized

She is carrying water for Trump

[VOX]

17. Steinader is a Trump enabler...

This is NOT the time or place for this Green "purity vote" crap. It's like picking out carpet samples while the entire house is burning to the ground.

[Jamaal510]

19. I actually like

Clinton, and I realize just how much of a Republican-enabling opportunist Jill Stein is. All she does is run on negativity and uses every chance to misplace the blame for the country's problems, and I have yet to see a plan for her regarding how to get her agenda through Congress. Even if she wasn't just a spoiler candidate, I'd never vote for her.