Our next presidential candidate should not follow a kook economics guru who agrees with the late Jörg Haider about the Hitler regime. (http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/bankrupt-germany.php)

Our next presidential candidate should be skeptical about “official” government stories about the causes of disasters like 9/11 and Katrina but also skeptical about alternative theories that are unsupported by evidence.

And so I am not accused of burying my criticisms: Sadly, I think I must argue that our next presidential candidate should not be Cynthia McKinney.

For the record, I have donated in the past to the McKinney campaign, though I do not plan to do so again. Has anyone here looked at her campaign spending reports?

By the way, I signed up with an account on Greenchange.org yesterday. There is a LOT of potential for Green networking there. I am ON BOARD. Sign up and get connected. We are going to explore ways that greenpartywatch.org can work more closely with Green Change and other Green networking sites. We need to pool our resources to offer the greatest solutions to the greatest problems plaguing America and the world.

Talking about who will lead us is one part, but what are we going to do collectively to build the party after Nov 2008? What are our short and long term goals. We can’t wait for the National Party to get everything together, because they are not centralized and they are moving a little slow. But us, techies move fast and we need to move.

How bout a series of Think Tanks in regions, building up local chapters, making a 3rd/Green Party Documentary, creating a Young Greens organization to pass the torch, getting our frames together, flooding Youtube with videos and motivating clips, getting all Greens on Greenchange.org, and winning local elections.

How bout that. Enough talk and cynicism. We need to act. Who’s with me?

Face it, future focus needs to be focused on how to implement a new green survival plan on the streets and on the land. Green leaders need to look to where they live and build the networks necessary to save our souls. Call them “local chapters” or call them “green cells”.

In the mean time of course give everything you can to the McKinney campaign and hit the streets with literature and spread the word. Put your contact info on the lit pieces so you can build up your local cells with those newfound sympathizers.

Everyone here is right, and everyone has the right to say write what they want, even if others don’t want to hear it or think it is misplaced. Can’t people take a little break from the campaigns to ponder the future?

I think that most small and third parties consider that if their top rung candidate does a good job, they should run again next time. Of course, there can be other candidates and a process. But, I would hope that Cynthia would come out on top if she considered another run with us. I think what she could have used more of is: A. Our support (and hopefully we will be stronger in 4 years) and B. Nationwide name recognition (which she has gotten some more of from this campaign.)

I am for Cynthia in 2012.

I think the # 6 slam about conspiracy theories is ill-guided. When people attack conspiracy theories, they are really telling people not to look to closely at government and the interconnections among politics, money and corporations. If we can’t consider conspiracies, then we must accept everything the government and media tell us at face value.