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In reply to the discussion: Nader blabbering on MSNBC. Still not apologizing for Bush. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)it seemed to me that Nader ran a "Gore bashing campaign". Everywhere he went he gave a speech and the local news and the M$M played a little clip of that speech and every clip seemed to be a variation of anti-Gore themes "Al Gore is a liar", "Don't vote for Al Gore."
When it came to convincing people to not vote for Gore, Nader was just another brick in the wall. My own LTTE in the Mason City Globe Gazette in October of 2000 started like this "First, I will give you 40 billion reasons to vote against Bush. That's the amount of money that his tax cuts give to the top 1%. I think that money should go to protect my social security so I can retire some day...."
(Not an exact quote, I cannot remember exactly what I said, or the exact number I used, but generally that was what I said.)
Nader knew that he had to run a bash-Gore campaign though, to convince people who otherwise would vote for Gore to vote for him instead. As such though, he just became another cog in the Republican Noise Machine.
I think this slogan came from the sixties - if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.