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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (294069)9/8/2002 12:53:43 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
How come he's still a Republican?

In 1984 he was the presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. He was a Republican before that, so he's flip flopped around a little bit. He didn't seek out the candidacy, he was approached by the "guys in suits" faction of the LP when it looked like the former AIM activist Russell Means would get the nomination. Means had been involved in the Wounded Knee incident, and some guys in the party thought it would make for bad PR to have him on the ticket.

Too bad Means didn't get the nomination. I mean, here was a guy who gave stemwinder speeches while dressed up in full Injun regalia and had actually raised up arms against the federales and lived to tell about it. Now THAT would have been a memorable campaign!
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