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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader's Open Letter to former President George W. Bush: "The Country You Destroyed" [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)when he's correct, but you wail that we must overlook the bigotry and sexism of some clerical figure because he speaks about one correct thing. An active opponent of equality and women's rights gets a pass for bits of rhetoric, but a guy who ran for office and lost miserably gets no quarter, no context. The homophobe, promoted as hero and his critics browbeaten.
During that election cycle, I was in 'safe' CA, where many people, pissed off about Lieberman and sick of the status quo promoted voting Nader in order to get enough votes for public funding for the Green Party. Thom Hartmann, DUer, promoted this on his radio show. I fought it tooth and nail and salvaged many votes for Gore. But that was long ago, and Nader got almost no votes, not even in Florida where the number of Democrats who did not vote at all vastly outnumbered Nader voters and the number of eligible unregistered people was even greater.
So grinding away at a defeated candidate takes focus off the Supreme Court's betrayal of the country.
But Francis, right now, opposes my equal rights and reproductive choice for women. This you can compartmentalize or excuse in order to agree with him on bits of rhetoric. Seems only fair to do the same for Ralph, to overlook one thing to agree with the other. Ralph never called my family names, I can tell you that right now.