For the Nader Haters: a question. If you blame Gore's alleged 500 vote loss in 2000 on Nader

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23. Nader was running because of his own ego and his personal vindictiveness toward Clinton-Gore

I've read that he got into a huff when President Clinton didn't give him a job in Washington when the Clinton-Gore Administration came to power and it all went downhill from there

He was not running because he had the best interests of the nation at heart. He ignored advice from progressives like Michael Moore and Molly Ivins to focus on winning support in the states where Gore was safe and to advise his followers to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate in the crucial swing states so that, in advancing the progressive cause, he didn't pursue a strategy that would result in the election of a Republican President. Nader instead chose to target Vice President Gore in the crucial swing states (Oregon, Florida, Wisconsin) where the outcome would have directly influenced the results of the presidential election.

Furthermore he ran a vile, intellectually dishonest campaign duping voters into believing that there was no difference between Bush and Gore. Because, you know, President Gore would have led us into Iraq, withdrawn from the ABM treaty and the Kyoto protocol, appointed extreme right wing justices to the courts, ignored national securing warnings ahead of 9/11, established Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and goodness knows what else. Nader knew that the memo that there was no difference between Bush and Gore but yet chose to run a campaign to try and deceive people into indirectly helping the election of a right wing President.

He also allowed the Republicans to use him. Jeb Bush solicited Nader surrogates to come down to Florida and give talks to university students in the hope of siphoning votes away from Gore in the knowledge that it would help Bush. And Ralphie was a-OK with being Jebbie's little toy and coming down and helping out the Bush family dynasty

And then he went on to try and help throw the election to Bush again in 2004 despite even his former vice presidential running mate (not to mention most of his supporters) urging him to desist for the good of the wider Democratic cause. And then he spent 2008 making racist comments about President Obama and is now talking about teaming up with Ron Paul.

Some progressive hero