Reply #12: Democracy

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Nobody's suggesting Nader didn't have a right to run, or that people didn't have a right to vote for him.

Yup, that's democracy.

Would you also agree with someone who said what you did, with another candidate's name replacing Nader's? Just curious.

"But I will always defend George W. Bush's right to run for president and the right of ANYONE to vote for him if his message represented their political interests better than the democratic candidate's message. That is democracy. It's what I believe in.

George W. Bush did the right thing in 2000-- he brought issues to the political dialog that were clearly compelling to a number of voters, and those issues needed to be heard. They still need to be heard, even more now than then, IMO. If George W. Bush's campaign undermined the democratic party in 2000 it is only because the dems failed to make as compelling an argument to those voters. Political campaigns are about persuasion, not blind loyalty."