Since the DNC Allows Non-Dems in Debates, Ralph Nader Should Join In

[David Zephyr]

I'm very serious about this. It is not right that a non-Democrat simply be allowed to step onto the stage with long-time, dedicated Democrats and activists and then immediately be sanctioned as an equal participant. It is wrong.

If a non-Democrat, like Wesley Clark, who admits to having voted for Ronald Reagan, who is now been shown to have recently been videotaped speaking about being grateful that George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Condi Rice are running the country, is permitted to willy-nilly enter into the serious national debates with other long time, registered Democrats running for the Presidency, then I would suggest that Ralph Nader who got 3% of the popular vote nationwide consider asking to be allowed to debate along with the other 8 Democrats and 1 Indpendent.

At least, Ralph Nader has never praised George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condi Rice and publicly expressed his gratitude that they were running the country.

I've completely soured on Clark (I)* and feel that his not even troubling himself to register as a Democrat before seeking to run for the Presidency and titular head of our Party was deceptive and deserves scorn.

And before Nader-haters pile on, I have voted Democrat for 33 years without exception and worked for the Gore Campaign here in California in 2000. Ralph Nader would bring more to the debates than a General who we now learn is not even a Democrat and who seems to have been infatuated with the current Bush Administration.


*Khephra's recommendation of identifying (correctly) Wesley Clark with the (I) Independent notation.