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January 16, 2008
Democratic Race: Let's Get Jim Into the Mix
Like many Democrats, I have felt great unease at the racial and gender tensions ripping through the Democratic primaries, as HIllary and Barack and their various toadies castigate the other side for fairy-tale reasons.
The Democratic race suffers not from too much tension, but not enough. The solution that springs gazelle-like to my mind is that the race needs a third candidate, one who can be a uniter, not a divider, somebody all Democrats can rally behind as a fresh new face for the Democratic Party.
And that man, rising to the moment in the hour of the Republic's greatest need, is . . . Jim McGreevey.
As the former Governor of New Jersey during the "Camelot years" of 2002-2004 and now a student at General Theological Seminary, McGreevey combines the executive experience and religious zest of Mike Huckabee with the crisis-tested moral authority of Hillary Clinton. And, he's gay, and I think it's time for the Democrats to have a gay nominee for president, don't you?
Not only that, but McGreevey is gay in a big way. He didn't just come out of the closet, he took a chain saw and demolished the closet. Who can forget his eloquence in that memorable August 2004 press conference when he stood before the cameras, held his head high, and proclaimed,
My truth is that I am a gay American.
That sends shivers down my spine to this day.
So, Jim McGreevey has as much right and appeal as a candidate to me as Hillary and Barack. He's tanned, rested and ready for a political comeback. For a population weary of the identity politics and sniping of the two front-runners, he can come in and sweep the field as the fusion candidate, the man who wrote the political memoir "The Confession," and no doubt has done tons of other cool things that qualify him for President. Granted, he hasn't been tortured by the North Vietnamese like John McCain, but maybe rough treatment by the press would serve as a good substitute. But he can speak truth to power and he understands the fearsome puritanical ways of the American mind, as well as Hillary does.
Plus, I'd love to see McGreevey shaking hands with the oil barons during a trip to OPECland. Go ahead, King Abdullah, shake hands, shake them good. See that wasn't so bad, was it?
All I can say is: Do it, Jim. Do it. A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo,. woo.
Van | 01/16/08 at 10:31 PM | Categories: - GOTV '06 to '08
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