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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:32 PM
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Quoting Nader except in one area is wrong
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 01:36 PM by Stuart G
.I respected him before 2000. After that, no.
He was used and was a user. There are many of those.
In this case, it resulted in thousands of deaths. Hundreds of thousands.
Without his blind ambition and ego in 2000, many would be alive that are dead.
..He has often said that he was not the cause of the loss of Gore in 2000.
He is wrong, and he lies on this...always.
The Bushes planned to steal votes in Florida , and they did.
But they could steal just so many.
Without his 60,000 Gore would have won .
.He never admits that truth, and he never will.
.That alone makes him disgusting.
To quote him on anything, except consumerism, is wrong.
Now, then, always.


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DisgustipatedinCA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:35 PM
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1. thanks. Ralph Nader threads are extremely helpful today
I guess an anti-Nader thread was as inevitable as the sun coming up this morning. I hope you feel better that you can blame everything on Nader, lo these 11 years later.
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:37 PM
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3. The truth always needs light in times like this....nt
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:35 PM
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2. On the other hand, if we didn't have a corrupt conservative Supreme Court....
If Gore's campaign had been better prepared for the possibility of shenanigans in Florida. If Gore had attacked Bush as the coward who skipped out on his military obligation. et cetera.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:38 PM
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4. I don't like Nader either, but there is a lot of blame for 2000 to go around...
Nader took repuke money. That's why I have zero use for the man.
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:46 PM
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6. I agree, he took repuke money...that is one of the reasons
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 01:48 PM by Stuart G
that I dislike him.
His ego could not see that. He sold out for that ego. Sure, the Supreme Court needs blame.
But without Nader, the pukes wouldn't have been able to get there.
If it was close, (without Nader) there would have been an investigation into Bush voter fraud
They would have had to give up..

Now...here is an example of this that worked for us.
Why didn't the pukes fight the close vote in Virgina that defeated George Allen?
..Think back?..it was only 3-4000 votes. Why not fight, get a recount...etc?
...Cause to fight would have uncovered massive voter fraud.
The pukes knew that.. so they conceeded relatively early...(now of course we cannot prove that, can we)
all the evidence is long gone...
Remmber???
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:41 PM
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5. He's unsafe at any speed
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:48 PM
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7. If Gore had gone after the votes of the Left instead of the center he would have got them.
Instead he pandered to the center and lost both.
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:50 PM
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8. There were just so many votes there...we won, they
cheated..without the Nader issue, and those 60,000, we would have won.
That is the truth...and we know it.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:54 PM
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10. If the "moderate" Dems and the left had voted for Gore he'd have won.
But, if flounders had feathers they'd be flamingos.

Gore failed to get the left or the moderates with his wishy-washy DLC approach. Blaming the left for abandoning a politician who doesn't appeal to them is an exercise in double-think.

Nader appealed to the left and got their votes. Gore didn't appeal to them and lost their votes.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:12 PM
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14. +1
It doesn't get any simpler.

They still want to blame the left...:crazy:

Can you imagine Vice-President LIEBERMAN?!
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:45 PM
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15. those 200,000+ dem votes for bush really helped..
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 02:46 PM by frylock
but nobody around here blames the dems for gore's loss. hmmmmmnn.....
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:50 PM
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9. That's a tired and well worn argument that doesn't hold water
It suggests that if you "use" someone, you "get" something.

So what did Nader "get", if he's a "user"?

If Gore hadn't been so busy running from the Clinton record and White House scandals, he might have had an inspiring campaign and fewer people would have voted for Nader.

That's on Gore, not Nader.

You have no way of knowing how many Nader voters would have just stayed home rather than vote for Gore. You're wrong to count every Nader vote as a Gore vote.


It was a perfect storm: the Republicans purged hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters, Democrats created a STUPID, confusing butterfly-ballot, Florida voters lacked the physical strength to properly punch a hole in a perforated piece of paper, and Al Gore couldn't say "I agree with Governor Bush" fast enough.

Blaming the Iraq War on Ralph Nader is the most myopic and useless thing I've ever heard! It's another example of the centrists blaming the left for their defects.

One man, one human being made the decision to invade Iraq and his name is George W. Bush.
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:58 PM
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12. 97,000 Greens voted for Ralph in Florida in 2000...
more than enough to enable the Bush gang to steal the election which they did.

Poetic justice would be the dropping of a ceremonial Corvair on Ralph.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:11 PM
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13. When you can prove that those 97,000 would have gone to Gore, I'll buy the Corvair
Maybe it was even more votes. There were A LOT of spoiled ballots in Florida that year.

Those 97,000 people voted their conscience. They voted for Nader, not against Gore, Bush, or Buchanan.

Without Nader on the ballot, you have no way of knowing if those votes would have even been cast.

You'd still rather blame the left than Jeb Bush's criminal administration, and that says a lot about the state of the Democratic party.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:48 PM
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16. 200,000 dems voted for bush in florida in 2000..
200,000 - 97,000 = 103,000
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:55 PM
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11. What utter fucking bullshit.
It doesn't even make sense and looks like it was typed on a cell phone.
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Puregonzo1188 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:50 PM
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17. Seriously? Are we really bringing this up now? Fanning the flames of hatred for Nader
isn't going to make our problems go away.
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