This "Nader" talking point is convenient [View all]

[Aerows]

but you are placing the blame in the wrong lap.

Had Al Gore actually fought the counting of votes, he would have been President. I was in Florida in 2000. That was the most crooked election and counting of votes in industrialized countries. Blaming Nader is convenient, but Gore is the one that all of you should be pointing the finger at. Harris is crooked as a barrel of snakes, everyone knew it at the time, but Al Gore just gave up quietly. In retrospect, it makes me wonder what they had on him.

Nader is convenient because he is used to say "See, this is what happens when you don't vote for a Democratic candidate even if you can't hardly recognize the D in him/her except for the attachment at the end of their name, and what happens when you naysay the policies of the third way!".

The reality is that Gore folded like an accordion when he should have fought the decision. You have to ask yourself why. I know I do, because I fucking voted for the man, my girlfriend voted for the man and we dragged other people to the polls to vote for the man.

Your talking point is invalid. Too many of us GOTV in Florida for Gore, but he threw in the towel without a fight. So NO. I don't blame Nader - I didn't vote for him. I blame GORE for not stepping up to the plate for whatever reason.

I won't entertain the idea of anybody else that cries NADER when Gore was his own worst enemy by not fighting the decision, and neither should any other good Democrat. I don't have to be in love with third way to be a Democrat, and I can vote for Democrats that I want to vote for. That does NOT make me a Nader lover, since I didn't vote for the SOB in the first place.