In the 60's, the Left's slogan was "Part of the Way with LBJ", because LBJ promised not to send troops into a land war in Asia.  Of course, as soon as he had won the election, LBJ and the Democrats did the opposite.

 

Which of course, brings us to 2004, and the cry of "Anybody But Bush", which of course sounds awfully familiar.  But this time, the Democrat nominee is Kerry, running on a platform that he will provide better 'management' of the Iraqi Occupation.

 

What comes around, goes around as they say.

Twilight of the Greens: Chokehold of Anybody But Bush by Sharon Smith Counterpunch http://counterpunch.org/smith07032004.html

"More than a year ago, a group of prominent Greens set an election-year objective of "replacing Bush with a Democrat (since we're not yet strong or organized enough to replace him with a Green or an independent)," as Ted Glick, national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, wrote in July 2003. Nader rejected the "safe-states" strategy from the outset, saying it "sounds to me like political schizophrenia. You either run or you don't."

Nader's 2000 Green Party candidacy did much to propel the Green Party to national prominence, but this didn't spare him from a stream of invective from the Anybody-But-Bush faction that led the well-organized Anybody-But-Nader rallying cry at the convention.

Peter Miguel Camejo, the Green Party candidate for California governor in 2002 and in the 2003 recall election--and now Nader's running mate--was booed loudly by some Cobb supporters as he addressed the convention. "The only practical 'success' [Nader] can now have will be to bring W. back to the White House," scoffed Nader's 2000 Green presidential rival Joel Kovel shortly before the convention began.

"Ralph Nader turned his back on the [Green] party and announced earlier this year that he would mount an independent campaign for the nation's top job," the Nation's John Nichols sniped on June 28. In reality, those in the Anybody-But-Bush left--both inside and outside the Green Party--had ruled out support for Nader long before (See, for example, the Nation's "Ralph, Don't Run" feature article immediately after the 2002 mid-term election).

Cobb supporter Ted Glick has admitted that a Kerry campaign would be a "centrist, corporate-friendly, more-troops-to-Iraq Democratic campaign" that will "inevitably dampen the enthusiasm of the labor, community, feminist, people of color, peace and other activists." Yet Cobb couches his campaign as an effort to "build" the Green Party, even as the safe-states strategy undermines the Greens' political independence."

Posted by David Havelka