SPARE IRAQ, SPOIL THE RE-ELECTION:

As an anti-war candidate, Dixon says he's no 'spoiler' (NEIL MODIE, 3/10/06, Seatle Post-Intelligencer)

"I do not look at myself as a spoiler," Aaron Dixon insisted Thursday as the one-time Seattle Black Panther leader announced his anti-war Green Party candidacy opposing Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell.

At a news conference at an assisted-living center in the Central Area, the black community activist made clear that his campaign is built around the Iraq war and the one-term senator's votes supporting it as well as her votes for the Patriot Act and a few other Republican military and security initiatives.

"If she was against the war, then I would be a spoiler, stealing her anti-war votes," Dixon told a roomful of supporters and news media. "If both the Republican challenger (businessman Mike McGavick) and Cantwell are in support of this war, then they are competing amongst themselves for the voters who are pro-war. I am the anti-war vote."

Isolationism, protectionism, and nativism is a potent brew. He mixes at least two of the three.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 10, 2006 4:59 PM