Reply #345: Still wishful thinking and prognosticating. [View All]

[wookie72]

From the standpoint of 2000, I had a choice between an ineffectual Republican and a "New Democrat" who seemed perfectly fine with continuing to leave the left base of the party at the back of the bus. I could not have predicted a) the country would be attacked, and b) the Democrats would roll over on pretty much everything Bush wanted. I chose neither, and that's my right. Don't patronize me or blame me; get out the vote the next time. However, it's been much easier to blame Nader.

Perot took many more votes from the Republicans than Nader did from the Democrats. That just fired up the Republicans to get out the vote. Democrats, it seems, just feel like smacking their base around or else ignoring them.