On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
Too bad Stanley waged such a disastrous campaign as the Green candidate for Governor of New York that he lost the party's ballot status. You need 50,000 votes to stay on the ballot in New York State; Stanely fell 10,000 votes short.
True, but I think that was mostly a function of the physical qualities of the candidate. IMHO he gave great speeches and had excellent slogans (certainly better than his competitors. And to be fair to Yoshie's point, this is the dimension of candidature that bears on his right to offer rhetorical analysis.) But as a physical specimen, he seems congenitally unable to overcome his comically exaggerated schlumpiness. He's been like that his whole life. Even his most adoring fans used to lay bets about how far into the hour his shirt would pop out of his pants when he was lecturing.
Michael
