Well, it's official, the Green Party has just nominated another egomaniac/loser/idiot. Jill Stein?

[Chan790]

62. Nothing is wrong with it persay...

but the Green Party needs to take a moratorium on nominating for the Presidency people who have zero chance of winning an EC vote and put even half that effort into winning downticket races and building a party infrastructure.

If they'd focus instead on running 2 or 10 really good Congressional campaigns in amenable districts, they'd win a few, then work to hold those while running a few more in 2 years...they'd be viable as a minor national party in 20 or so years. At the same time, they need to work to get candidates on the ballot in local races...it's pretty impossible to actually get any sort of party-support to run for something winnable as a Green. Let me put that another way...if they'd quit their "shoot for the top"-only nonsense, it's entirely in their reach to win a mayoral race in a mid-major city or a city-council seat in a major city like DC. (Of all the local Green Parties I've seen, none is as strong as W.DC's Green/DC-Statehood coalition party...and they get fuck-all support from the national Green Party.)

Instead, they're a laughingstock.