Pic Of The Moment: Supreme Court's Conservative Justices Strike Down Part Of Voting Rights Act

[BlueDemKev]

58. Yes, many Nader voters would have stayed home, BUT...

...not all 97,000+ would have. Bush only had 537 more votes than Gore in Florida. There's no question Al Gore would have received at least 15,000 to 20,000 of those votes and even if he'd only gotten 2,000 of them, he'd have become the president and the Bush-Cheney nightmare would have been averted.

Of course what Jeb did mattered...of course what the SCOTUS did mattered. But Nader's candidacy gave Jeb and the SCOTUS the OPPORTUNITY to do what they did.

Yes, I agree the 2000 election is behind us, and I know that Gore should have run a far better campaign than he did. My point is this: we must LEARN from that awful mistake and make sure that it never, ever happens again--that is, beating ourselves by splitting the liberal vote and allowing a conservative to slip in the back door. Only by voting together can we stop the tea-baggers from gaining power and destroying our country.

So, let's stop fighting and work together.