Is anyone else sick to death of the "Liberal Smugness" snarl that's going around lately?

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83. I never said any such thing

What I said is

a) By running Ralph Nader helped to elect George W. Bush

b) he should have known that could happen, in fact he was asked "What if that happens?" and he said "I don't care."

Does that mean Ralph does not have a right to help elect George W. Bush?

Heck, no, he has just as much right to support Bush as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and any other American citizen. It's not about his rights. It is about his goals, about his intelligence.

And again, you keep obsessing about Florida as if that is Nader's get out of jail free card.

Since you did not bother to read my link, I will repeat its basic FACT here. IF Ralph Nader had not been on the ballot, THEN Gore would have won New Hampshire. With a win in New Hampshire, Gore wins the electoral college, any theft in Florida is completely irrelevant.

Again, let me repeat myself. Ralph Nader had every right to be on the ballot in New Hampshire. He had every right to spend much of his political speeches telling voters "Gore sucks, Gore sucks, Gore sucks, don't vote for Gore". It is just the fact that BY DOING SO, he basically put George W. Bush in the White House.

If I did something like that, I would be very remorseful.

As for what Gore could and could not do. Well, I have gotten more and more active since 2000, but 2000 was the start for me. I did every thing I could do to keep Bush out of the White House. I wrote letters to the editor and I made calls on election day. Not much, but I did everything I could do to help Gore win Iowa, and he did, by a very narrow margin. Maybe, my ego wants to believe, my LTTE made that tiny difference. So I did not expect Gore to win all by himself - I did what I could to help.

In much the same way, except in the opposite direction. Nader did what he could do, and it was much, much more than I could do, to help Bush win.

As the wrestler said in "The Breakfast Club" - "How do you apologize for something like that? There's just no way."