"we want to punish the Democrats, we want to hurt them, wound them"

[joshcryer]

50. I don't even care about that.

I am more annoyed that Nader gets a pass when he explicitly, overtly, tried to screw Gore over. He ran in swing states. There were campaigns to do vote exchanges (never before happened) which even Michael Moore was behind. Everyone knew that it was a tight election. Everyone knew that Nader was throwing a wrench into things. Read my links. They are from 2000. Nothing is made up. Use the Way Back Machine on several articles referenced in my first link. It was real. It was visceral. It sucked.

I almost want to start several other OPs about how Nader was directly attacking Gore (while leaving Bush alone) the whole time. When it was called Nader was ecstatic. The Republicans cheered Nader. They actually blessed him and said he was their hero, shit like that.

People don't remember. Remember, this was when Crossfire and shit was at its heyday. This was when MediaWhoresOnline came online and we were criticizing the utter failure of our media to even provide a coherent narrative. It was a nightmare. People just don't remember. It's been too long. The media saturation has made them complacent. It's just beyond them.

I remember. It was a nightmare. I literally could not sleep at night. I didn't vote for Clinton in 1996, but I voted happily and proudly for Gore in 2000. It devastated me, then when the Draft Gore movement fell apart after his Brookings institute speech declaring that he wouldn't run, I became increasingly disillusioned. When the Dean scream happened? I had to take a hiatus from this site (would've been banned otherwise because I didn't think Kerry was the one).