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In reply to the discussion: You ain't gonna do shit [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Great Job Ralph!(who some say is the single most lazy person in the history of the world, compared to all the money he got for doing absolutely diddley squat and whine)
They should have a space in DC for a statue where they can remember just how much damage Ralph Nader caused America and the world in 2000.
Make it one very attractive to pidgeons, who work alot harder in their lives, than Ralph Nader ever did. He could have by running for the house or senate and getting reelected numerous times and working as one of the legislatures voting on laws.
Never before is the triple meaning "What did Ralph Nader do" been so obvious.
By his being lazy, he did nothing to advance anything he supposedly worked very little but spoke loud while doing nothing all his life.
from wiki-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader
However, Jonathan Chait of The American Prospect and The New Republic notes that Nader did indeed focus on swing states disproportionately during the waning days of the campaign, and by doing so jeopardized his own chances of achieving the 5% of the vote he was aiming for.Then there was the debate within the Nader campaign over where to travel in the waning days of the campaign. Some Nader advisers urged him to spend his time in uncontested states such as New York and California. These states where liberals and leftists could entertain the thought of voting Nader without fear of aiding Bush offered the richest harvest of potential votes. But, Martin writes, Nader who emerges from this account as the house radical of his own campaign insisted on spending the final days of the campaign on a whirlwind tour of battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Florida. In other words, he chose to go where the votes were scarcest, jeopardizing his own chances of winning 5 percent of the vote, which he needed to gain federal funds in 2004.[70]
When Nader, in a letter to environmentalists, attacked Gore for "his role as broker of environmental voters for corporate cash," and "the prototype for the bankable, Green corporate politician," and what he called a string of broken promises to the environmental movement, Sierra Club president Carl Pope sent an open letter to Nader, dated 27 October 2000, defending Al Gore's environmental record and calling Nader's strategy "irresponsible."[71] He wrote:
You have also broken your word to your followers who signed the petitions that got you on the ballot in many states. You pledged you would not campaign as a spoiler and would avoid the swing states. Your recent campaign rhetoric and campaign schedule make it clear that you have broken this pledge... Please accept that I, and the overwhelming majority of the environmental movement in this country, genuinely believe that your strategy is flawed, dangerous and reckless.[72]
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...In the 2004 campaign, Democrats such as Howard Dean and Terry McAuliffe asked that Nader return money donated to his campaign by Republicans who were well-known Bush supporters, such as billionaire Richard Egan.[77][78] Nader's reaction to the request was to refuse to return any donations and he charged that the Democrats were attempting to smear him.[77] Nader's vice-presidential running mate, Peter Camejo, supported the return of the money if it could be proved that "the aim of the wealthy GOP donors was to peel votes from Kerry."[77] According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Nader defended his keeping of the donations by saying that wealthy contributors "are human beings too."[77]
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remember, in the OP, all those things Ralph took away from us.
and weep for what he did.
Too bad more people did not listen to Carl Pope.
Especially in NH where Gore, who received 267 out of the 270 electoral votes needed,
did NOT get NH's 4 to put him over the top.