2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Nina Turner weighing offer to join Green Party ticket as vice presidential candidate [View all]The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)He put together a coalition that had the potential to win. Nader acted as a spoiler and took enough votes for himself that Bush's voter role purge was effective.
I have no respect for Nader or people who minimize his deliberate acts to teach Democrats a lesson for not being, in Nader's case, Stalinist enough. I don't know if that is you. If you think Nader had no effect and wrote what you did to excuse him in any way, then it's you. But I don't know your motives. Nader was experienced, educated and smart enough to know exactly what he was doing: acting as a spoiler to keep the Democrats from getting a majority by drawing off votes in close states. He was a spoiler and intended to be a spoiler. And it got us eight years of George W. Bush.
Nader said he was running because there was no difference between Democrats and Republicans. Bullshit. He wasn't that stupid and naive.
He is a nasty, selfish man. Jill Stein is at least far too stupid to know that she working every day to try to siphon away votes to throw some states to Trump. Nader was far too smart to not know he was doing exactly that.