22 / July
22 / July
Communists for Kerry

The Communist Party USA has urged its supporters to vote for John Kerry. The party's website notes that "a Kerry election presents the possibility for greater struggles to undo damage and move forward." John Kerry, the Communists say, "is the vehicle by which George W. Bush...can be defeated." This surely puts some votes in the Kerry column in Santa Cruz, California, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Amherst, Massachusetts. Everywhere else, it reinforces Kerry's image as an out-to-lunch Massachusetts liberal.

Even when the Soviet Union ordered the CPUSA not to harm the Roosevelt campaign during the "popular front" days in 1936, the American Communists did so by bashing Alf Landon rather than praising Franklin Roosevelt. They even ran, at least nominally, a candidate that year. Things must be truly desperate on the Left if the Communist Party is backing the Democrats' horse.

Say what you want about George W. Bush, but the man has all the right enemies.

posted at 01:58 AM
Comments

But have you asked the Knights in Michigan and Kentucky how they are going to vote this year?...

...c'mon Flynn, you know it's a logical fallacy to assert that because someone supports a platform it is therefore false.

And how is it that alienating our traditional allies (especially Germany which --after their experience in the 70s-- could surely teach us a thing or two about defending against terrorism on our home turf), how is this getting "the right enemies"?

Unsleepingly,
Le G.

Posted by: Le Gadfly on July 22, 2004 03:44 AM

Kerry gets the commies, W gets the fascists. It's a wash.

Posted by: Chris on July 22, 2004 11:52 AM

Did someone just insinuate that Klansmen are not all Democrats?

Posted by: Dave Munger on July 23, 2004 06:24 PM

In full support, the Party orders you to go to:
www.communistsforkerry.com

Posted by: Kommander Djin on August 8, 2004 04:34 PM
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