A vote for Ralph Nader is the same as a vote for George Bush.

[LoZoccolo]

"The only way to send President Bush back to Crawford, Texas, is to vote for John Kerry because, unfortunately, a vote for Ralph Nader is the same as a vote for George Bush," Dean said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-04-05-dean-nader_x.htm



Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 2005-2009

I honor you, Howard Dean, for your bold stand against splinterism.

[KG]

1. he could stand some veneers.

[LaydeeBug]

17. wow. how superficial of you. nt

[WonderGrunion]

2. Dean is a party man. He supports the HCR bill being passed.

Too many people wielding his image as an avatar seem to ignore that.

[Robb]

3. LOL

You're on a roll. :D

[Electric Monk]

5. You forgot a T

[onehandle]

4. Ralph who? nt

[UTUSN]

6. K&R to attempt to undo the UnReKKK, but to no avail n/t

[Don Caballero]

7. Nader is a wrecker

Bought and paid for by the GOP

[earthside]

8. What's the deal?

Why are you posting this now?

Because Dean was just plain wrong. A vote for Bush was a vote for Bush. A vote for Kerry was a vote for Kerry. A vote for Nader was a vote for Nader. A vote for the Libertarian presidential nominee was a vote for the Libertarian candidate.

Only YOU own your own vote: nobody else has a claim to it just because you are a progressive or liberal or a conservative or a libertarian ... or even if you are registered with a particular political party.

People are also free to vote tactically if that is their decision, it is also their choice to vote their conscience and accept the consequences -- that is what liberty and freedom in a representative democracy is all about.

So, why post this kind of message now unless one is seeking to actually create more division, controversy and "splinterism"?

[JamesA1102]

10. No one owns your vote but take responsibility for

the consquences of your vote.

[earthside]

12. That is exactlly what I wrote.

"People are also free to vote tactically if that is their decision, it is also their choice to vote their conscience and accept the consequences -- that is what liberty and freedom in a representative democracy is all about."

[JamesA1102]

21. I know but...

Most Nader voters still refuse to take any responsibility for the consquences of their vote.

[OrwellwasRight]

9. I should have thought of that. So selling out is preferable from being

a thinking being in a democracy who is allowed to learn, analyze, and decided on his or her own preferences??

Good to know.

Thanks for bravely standing up for everyone's right to live in a democracy.

[LoZoccolo]

11. People have a right to shove a lemon reamer up their ass and twist it as well. n/t

[Flaneur]

13. Dumb and boring. Haven't you posted this, like, a hundred times before?

I think you should get help for your Nader obsession.

[beardown]

14. It helps ease their pain.

The longer folks can blame Nader and try and pin the 2000 loss on him, the longer they can ignore facing up to the dems own responsibility for losing the 2000 election and avoid making the necessary changes to fix things.

They also ignore that Gore nominated one of the most hated individuals on this board, Lieberman, to be his vice president and the message that sent to progressive voters. They pretend that Gore chosing Lieberman to be one heart beat away from the presidency didn't mean anything and then complain here about the large negative consequences of Obama's surrounding himself with a bunch of Wall Street types. They contend that the veep doesn't have any power and ignore the tens of thousands of posts here against the last eight years of Cheney induced hell and ignore Lieberman's almost single handed defeat of the public option not as a veep, but as a single senator.

They ignore that Gore didn't lose Florida because of Nader. He lost Florida because a large number of democratic voters voted for Bush and Gore's flawed fight to have the votes recounted and bad ballot design and the purge of bogus felon lists and the Nader vote. Strange that the most hate is shown for the most progressive leg of the failure.

But keep throwing blame at Nader so it's easier to ignore the democratic party's continued march to the right and increasing disdain for progressives.

[Electric Monk]

15. Nice post. You win the thread.

[Wind Dancer]

16. Excellent post! n/t

[LaydeeBug]

18. it's just that it doesn't include the FACT that Gore won, by every plausible

scenario defined. Funny how you can blame the victim. :eyes:

[AnOhioan]

19. Well said, +1

[Jax]

20. You nailed it.

Great post. It will go over the OP's head, but great post.

[JamesA1102]

22. Don't ignore that Nader took GOP money

and used it to run ads that lied about Al Gore.

[galileoreloaded]

25. Great post. Like I tell folks that assert these *ahem* perspectives, may your chains

rest lightly.

Apparently authoritarianism isn't just for R's anymore..

[LoZoccolo]

26. Yet the overwhelming majority of Nader voters seemed to have blamed themselves.

Having backtracked on their Nader vote in 2004.

[FLAprogressive]

23. ...is a shit statement.

[Arkana]

24. HOWARD DEAN HERE FOR OXI-CLEAN!

[Fading Captain]

27. A vote for DLCers is a vote for war, corporate bailouts, and fucking over workers

In other words, a vote for DLCers is a vote for Bush.