[net.politics] Nicaraguans NOT Sandinistas, Cowards NOT Democrats

baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) (03/24/86)

In article <9957@ucla-cs.ARPA> ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>>If the Contras truly support *democracy* why did Arturo Cruz *refuse*
>>to participate in the 1984 elections despite repeated requests
>>from the Sandinistas and other opposition parties?
>
>He was applying common sense. He suspected that the elections would be
>manipulated by the Sandinistas (whether it actually happened or not is
>a different matter and totally irrelevant). He knew that by taking part
>in those elections, he would be legitimazing them, so he stayed out.

Is this to say that McGovern should have refused to participate in
the U.S. election of 1972?

					Baba