Ralph Nader: Bernie Sanders' Opposition to Third Parties is Why His Movement is in Disarray

[stupidicus]

41. well, he said nothing that there that the dishonest idiocy of

"he gave us Bush" or some such bs won't completely rebut.

I suppose it's better that he get the blame than say all those dems that voted for Bush in FL, ect, etc, etc.

We were told, a million times over, that the 2000 election came down to 560 Florida voters that cast ballots for the Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. “A vote for the Green Party is a vote for Republicans,” goes the old saw.

It was not that Gore lost the votes of tens of thousands of white women who voted Republican by a huge margin of 53 % Bush to 44% Gore. Oh no, it was the 600 or so Nader voters.

It wasn’t that 12-13% of registered Democrats voted for Bush. It wasn’t that the Democratic base deserted the party and gave about 300,000 votes to Bush in Florida. That’s right, 12 times more Democrats votes for Bush than Nader. But no, no, no it was the 600 Green voters that elected Bush.

It wasn’t the 30-35% of union members that vote Republican year after year. Nope. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/06/the-myth-of-the-spoiler-why-the-machine-elites-fear-democracy/

There are far better ways to undermine his opinion in this instance than dragging out that stale turd, but if you suffer from intellectual sloth or integrity deficits, whatcha gonna do eh? I for example, would like to know how he knows a guy who's shunned him for 18 years so well, and based upon what did he arrive at the ONLY possible conclusion of BS suffering from a distaste for third parties. As far as I can tell, BS is is advocating only for a dem vote for POTUS, not down ticket offices, where he's be fine with a third party vote.