I like the Tsongas sig Lidaker!
Tsongas was the first political candidate I ever really supported (when I was 12)...I had that bumper sticker on my bedroom wall for years.
He was also one of the few viable presidential candidates not to resort to the standard red-white-and-blue logo.
I was also 12 back in 1992, but I wasn't aware of Paul Tsongas at the time. I vaguely remember Bill Clinton winning that election and my social democratic junior high school teacher telling the class that independent candidate Ross Perot was "close to a nazi", which led me to believe that he was ultra right-wing. He also said that the republican party in America was "so blue they're almost black" (red stands for left, blue for right in Sweden). Strange. That's the kind of indoctrination you have to endure if you grow up in a small community as I did where everyone are social democrats in their soul from the day they're born.
Thanks for the compliment. Tsongas was genuine. I guess what gave him the courage to stand up for what he believed in even when it was unpopular was his struggle with cancer. Seems like you need a big character-shaping event to happen in your life to be able to stay above partisan politics. John McCain is another example (five years as POW).
