Ralph Nader: A traitor to himself?

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/21/Floridian/Ralph_Nader__A_traito.shtml

St. Petersburg Times, 3/21/94

At the heart of the many arguments now circulating about why Ralph Nader should abandon his candidacy for president is the accusation that he is a traitor, that by siphoning votes from Al Gore in 2000 he delivered the decisive electoral college advantage to George W. Bush. This was a betrayal, the argument runs, of liberals who had supported his innumerable causes lo these many decades.

This argument has been fine-tuned of late. The theme is still betrayal. Not of others, however, but of himself.

In the March 8 issue of the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg laid the table for his condemnation of Nader's candidacy with a paean to his career of accomplishments: seat belts, air bags, fireproof children's pajamas, lead-aprons for X-ray patients, the Freedom of Information Act, the Environmental Protection Agency and on and on. It sounds a little like Marc Antony's double-edged praise of Brutus as an "honorable man" after Caesar's assassination.

Then Hertzberg serves a meal laced with arsenic.

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he claims to help...much like SOME of the far left rhetoric on DU. I work with the people getting harmed..the disabled and the labor force....I SEE the differences every day.

Nader should go get a brain scan.... I suspect white flecks are interfering with the grey matter.

Like Nader -Like Bush

they sell one thing/direction for our life and effect our life in the opposite direction.

No wonder Nader is running some blocking for Bush.