Hmmm. Interesting Op-Ed piece in the Chron today (and yes, I'm still keeping abreast of what's going on in SF because I've reached that I'm gonna hurl stage of home-sickness). Basic gist of it is that instead of bashing Mayoral Candidate the Poet Prince, a member of the Green Party for being Green, the Dems should say "jolly good show" and hop on board. See, if it weren't for Greens, the Dems would be nowhere (not that the Dems aren't nowhere now, but, well, you know).

As the Op-Ed argued, it turns out that instead of condemning the Greens for what happened in 2000, we should thank them. Cause if it weren't for Nader, Gore would have, umm, "lost" by wider margin in the last election. Yay!

In fact-

Before Nader entered the race, Gore was headed for a landslide loss to George W. Bush, running a campaign that was so bland that I defy you, dear reader, to remember one thing that Gore stood for. Only Nader's entry stirred up enough hope in the progressive core of the majority of the population to get people to come out and vote in such large numbers between 5 and 8 p.m. on election night, some for Nader but many, many more for Gore as the projected incarnation of the Democrats' progressive heritage.

So as a Democrat, I change my mind. I'd like to thank the Greens for helping out the country way back in 00 for without you, we would have had no Hanging Chads, no Katherine Harris, and no butterfly ballots. Because without you, the Greens, the election would have been a blow out.

So thank you. Thank you Green Party.

And for now on, I'll forget that if only a few thousand of you tofu-heads would have voted for Gore instead of Nader in Florida, or if Nader hadn't spent much of his remaining few days during the campaign bashing Gore in states like Florida, or that you were too busy on your Children's Crusade to listen to people who kept on telling you that there is a difference between parties and that there really was a lot at stake during the election, this country would not even be remotely in the mess we are in now.

So, once again, Thank You. Really. And stay away from the organic rice diets, they sometimes make you lose sight of reality.