The establishment alternative

...He is already more Republicans, perhaps...

...they remind me of values even more ruthlessly...

...He thinks that the system has gone astray but because I am attacking the nominating process...

...Anderson is a"safe" independent candidate...

...tempted to search for an alternative who will destroy your There is something quaint in your beliefs...

...Anderson talk is the kind that soothes establishment nerves and flatters establishment egos...

...Third, and possibly most important, he has made it clear that he is not trying to overthrow the two-party system...

...It is journals, served as director of state organizations in the' 76 McCar- in striking contrast to the national media blackout of Eugene thy campaign...

...Anyo~e who damage that system in spite of himself...

...The Republicans contrib- uted more of the ideas, and the Democrats more of the arms...

...Of the special-interest groups contributing to Anderson's campaign, the pro-abortion forces stand out prominently...

...he thought that it Was simply a natural expression of subconscious, status-quo thinking...

...If one considers only the political track records of the two candidates, McCarthy should have received more media attention than Anderson --not less...

...He said that Anderson serves as a independent candidacy, not as an assault on the two-party lightning rod for voter discontent...

...The ditions that brought it into existence...

...who represents all that has been going on, whom we can palm In an interview published in the May 19 issue of U.S...

...After his late-July meeting with Senator Edward Kennedy, Anderson hinted that T HOSE STAUNCH SUPPORTERS of the two-party system he might drop out of the race if Kennedy were to win the who worry about John Anderson should relax...

...That law discriminates severely against minority parties, independent candidates, and all can- didates who run against incumbents...

...Anderson has three advantages in his favor this year...

...News off" to dissatisfied voters as a solution to what has been going & World Report, Anderson suggested that "my candidacy can on...

...The early-June NARAL convention in Washington, where socialite Robin Chandler Duke presented $5,000 of this to a campaign official, seemed like an Anderson rally...

...Oglesby's "Cowboys vs...

...Far from Democratic nomination...

...He said that the difference between Carter and Ford "is so insignifi- cant that I have no burden of conscience at all...

...this once, by neglecting to choose him as the Republican So there it is: a one-time venture which is supposed to nominee...

...First, he is an incumbent...

...Even when you add to this group the millionaires-with-social-consciences who have aided Anderson's campaign (Norman Lear, Stewart Mott, Max Palevsky, Anne and Martin Peretz, Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum), you are still far from the ramparts...

...II I MARY M~-EI.IAN, a Washington-based writer whose work has ap- Media coverage of the Anderson campaign has been over- peared in Inquiry, The Nation, The Washington Post, and other whelming in volume and underwhelming in critical depth...

...Anyone who wonders about.the difference in media treatment of the two candidates need not look much further than this...

...It wil~ have sort of safety valve for discontented voters...

...In the unlikely event that John B. is elected president, two-party system...

...The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) has given up to its legal limit of $10,000...

...and "Does McCarthy know you're doing this...

...you will find him to be the outlaw...

...the time when I believed that electing the right men to follow The New Left was victimized by the very economic con- the right policies would change the world to my liking...

...but the general murky ideology distracting them from more radical alternatives, such as the will not change very much...

...He will be on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia this year...

...I don't know who is to be biamedmost...

...As he becomes out here beyond the "mainstream," there are plenty of people more dependent on the very forces responsible for America's who have already been through what you are about to experi- mess, Mr...

...DESPITE the restrictions of the election law, however, An- derson is receiving establishment support that otlier candi- dates outside the major parties cannot hope to touch...

...had won primaries in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Mas- sachusetts, Oregon, and New York...

...It is possible, of course, that Anderson may he will have a "national unity" administration...

...but no one should count looks closely at the people around Andersen may suspect that on this...

...You will be victimized by America lies, not in the accountable institutions the voters can economic circumstances as well, but this time in the opposite reach, but in the unaccountable ones which they cannot...

...He's the best friend their industry has...

...McCar- thy, by contrast, made the two-party system a major target of his campaign...

...Consequently, volunteers out petitioning for McCarthy in the summer of '76 kept hearing, "Oh, is he running this year...

...Anderson's sup- port of abortion, and the abortion industry's support of him, dovetails nicely with his essentially status-quo position...

...He guessed the subcon- system, but simply as an alternative to the presidential candi- scious thought ofestablishment leaders to be: "Here is a guy dates the system is coughing up this year...

...He also said that "we have had bipartisan militarism in this nation...

...But he has received much support from people who clearly belong to the Yankee group of old-money, multinational, Europe-first, vaguely "reformist" folks...

...Reagan, in the guise of cleaning things up, will dirty ence...

...It is curious that Anderson's late-April announcement of his In talking last spring with a founder and leading activist of switch to an independent candidacy has received so little the Libertarian party, I referred to Anderson as "a profoundly analysis...

...and had come close to winning New Hampshire and California...

...You can also find there Hugh Hefner of the pro-abortion Playboy empire, the administrator of a large abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, the medical director of an abor- tion clinic in Anderson's hometown, and the leading abortion doctor of South" Dakota...

...These people should give to Ander- son...

...Keene said that Anderson is "getting, to some extent, what he deserves...

...McCarthy's independent presidential campaign in 1976...

...They deserve a forum, but they seem unlikely to have one as long as the media are diverted by Anderson --or are using Anderson as an excuse to avoid covering the others...

...For that very Yet the same austerity that adds strength to your vision will reason he will disappoint you...

...Incidentally, minor-party activists view Anderson unkindly because of his vocal role as a supporter of the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act...

...Anderson has never won any race outside of his own congressional district...

...12 September 1980:501...

...At that time, Anderson remarked: "I being a major threat to the system, Anderson is another am running not because I am attacking the two-party system staunch supporter...

...Borrow- ing from Car...

...Libertarian party, the Citizens party, and the socialist parties...

...Anderson is not, of course, the only candidate running outside of the major parties this year...

...Power in took the bite out of our critique...

...He agreed, saying that the estab- member of the Republican party for thirty years" and "I will lishment "is playing Anderson up precisely because he is no continue my membership in that party.'" He presented his threat to the establishment...

...Anderson went out of his way to stress "I have been a establishment candidate...

...Barry Commoner, standard bearer for the new Citizens party, will not do as well in ballot.placement...

...distorted...

...McCarthy was not in 1976...

...When he does, remember that produge a mushy conservatism that will sap it...

...McCarthy declared that" we have had a bipartisan economic policy and bipartisan economic failure...

...Your direction...

...But most of these candidates --unlike Anderson --are offering radical solutions for what ails the country...

...McCarthy had served twenty-two years in Congress and had been elected twice to the Senate...

...nor Ellen McCormack, the liberal pro-life candidate who is running as an independent...

...While Anderson once suggested that he might quit if it became clear that his campaign would result in Jimmy Carter's losing the election, McCarthy said that he would not "lose an hour's sleep" if Carter lost because of him...

...McCarthy had been a major contender in the 1968 presidential campaign, he had competed with Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Robert Ken- nedy...

...I I II ,, JOHN ANDERSON IS THE NEW YANKEE CANDIDATE The establishment alternative I MARYMEEHAN strengthen that system --not destroy it...

...David A. Keene, a con- servative who put together the left/right coalition which chal- lenged the law in 1975, recently commented: "By the way, I have been reading about poor John Anderson and the plight of third-party candidates under the federal election laws, without any mention of the fact that John Anderson was the guy who was chiefly responsible in the House for writing the damn law that he's now complaining about...

...The Libertarian did not think there was any conspiracy to breathe new life into the two parties...

...And one George Franklin, Coordinator of the Trilateral Commission -- of which Anderson is a member...

...It would be unwise to push this analogy too far, because Anderson clearly needs far more establishment support than he now has if he is to have a chance of winning...

...Not to worry: everything can be put right with an "breathe new life into the two parties" and to strengthen the end-run...

...Anderson, running for president for the first time in 1980, lost every primary he contested...

...Second, he ran first as a major-party candidate, thereby gaining press cover- age and federal matching funds that were denied McCarthy in 1976...

...You expect him to be the sheriff in High that your president is no longer to be trusted, and you will be Noon...

...Decline and austerity give you your present popular- faith and passion are charming, but your sense of reality is ity, building popular support for your program and principles...

...He may instead help save the system by providing a it will look strangely like the Carter administration...

...McCarthy talk is the kind of thing that makes the establishment -- including the media w rather nervous...

...Commonweal: 500 Americans nowadays do not believe something is happening unless they see it on the tube...

...Nor will David McReynolds, presidential candidate of the Socialist Party U.S.A...

...In Anderson's financial reports for the first six months of 1980, you can find the names of William Bundy, Marshall Field, Nicholas Katzenbach, Charles Percy, Blanchette Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Margaret Rockefeller, Mary Rockefel- ler, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, John Hay Whitney...

...nor Andrew Pulley, who heads the ticket of the Socialist Workers ~arty...

...Ronald Reagan wants to be president...

...Population-controllers show up fre- quently on Anderson's financial reports (the Rockefellers, some of the other millionaries, and folks from Planned Par- enthood, Zero Population Growth, the Population Crisis Committee...

...I think it can help to push Anderson...

...The very prosperity problem all along was that the men we elected and the policies that gave us our radicalism also created a mushy liberalism that they followed had little power to change the world...

...Yankees" thesis about power in America, one might suggest that Reagan is a pure Cowboy, Carter a Yankee-on-trial who hasn't worked out, and Anderson the new Yankee candidate...

...Ed Clark, the Libertarian party's presidential candidate, started, early and is wellorganized and well-financed...